Small shops in Japan boosting customer service in English
More small businesses in Japan, including restaurants and stores along shopping streets, have been making efforts to improve the quality of their foreign-language customer services.
More small businesses in Japan, including restaurants and stores along shopping streets, have been making efforts to improve the quality of their foreign-language customer services.
Former Miss Universe Gloria Diaz on Monday advised current Miss Universe Philippines Maxine Medina to get an interpreter for the Q&A portion of the international beauty pageant’s coronation night.
For outgoing titleholder Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, Miss Universe contestants do not need to speak in English during the pageant’s question-and-answer portion to increase their chances of winning.
Conclusion THE ROMANCES in English bear other differences from their Filipino brethren. In a sense, the books are more upscale, with the novels featuring very modern career women here and
DEADLINE for submission to the F. Sionil José Young Writers Award, a competition for short fiction in English, is on Aug. 31. The Philippine Center for the International PEN (Poets
Whatever you’re doing this Sunday, wherever you might be, take a moment to reflect on the most popular word in the English language, OK?
Cuba’s first English-language bookstore offers a selection that would just about stock the lobby of an average Vermont bed and breakfast. Next to what’s available in English elsewhere in Havana, it might as well be the Library of Congress.
An international study indicates that the English-language proficiency of Brazilians has worsened, going from low to very low. That’s worrisome news given that English will be the lingua franca during the World Cup this country will host in 2014 and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
New York—As this city closed (who would have thought?) and braced itself for the fierce hurricane called Irene, a close encounter of a different kind took us by surprise. It
NEW YORK—“Would you like to learn Filipino?” Ask a very young Filipino-American, and you will most likely draw a blank. It’s okay. He can’t decide for himself yet. When puberty
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