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A community portal about English language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: English is the most widely taught and understood language in the world, and sometimes is described as a lingua franca . It is a widely... [more]

A community portal about English language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: English is the most widely taught and understood language in the world, and sometimes is described as a lingua franca . It is a widely distributed language originating in England that is currently the primary language of several countries. It is extensively used as a second language and as an official language in many other countries. Although Modern Standard Chinese has more mother-tongue speakers English is used by more people as a second or foreign language, putting the total number of English-speakers worldwide at well over one billion.

Bill Sakovich's Ampontan blog had an entry about a new Japanese word "Obamu", named after President Obama.  It's being used as a verb that basically means to push ahead with your convictions even though it appears likely that you will probably fail.Here is the definition...read more  
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