Tag Archives: Korean

lonely Where is home?

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

Many of the people close to my heart are transnationals such as myself. Belonging is a frequently discussed topic in my circles, and often a topic that is surrounded by considerable angst. Where do we belong? Is it really worth … Continue reading →

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highschool Long-term English language learners

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

When I first started teaching in Australia, I had a Korean-Australian student in one of my undergraduate classes who sounded like most of the other students in my class, like a native speaker of Australian-English. The daughter of Korean immigrants, … Continue reading →

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Space challenged Tokyo, Japan: www.languageonthemove.org Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江

Tokyo is getting more and more linguistically diverse every time I go back there. During this trip, I was really amazed by how efficiently and elegantly Tokyo does multilingual signs, particularly on trains and at stations. And I wasn’t the … Continue reading →

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shinjuku station Multilingual Tokyo

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

I had been led to believe that Japan was a very monolingual place interspersed with Engrish ads, commercial signage and T-shirts. Well, that has turned out to be just another stereotype! Tokyo is an amazingly multilingual place! Official signage in … Continue reading →

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More on Korean linguistic exports

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

Not only is Korean an increasingly popular choice of study as a foreign language, now South Korea is also promoting the use of the Hangul script to write languages other than Korean – that is according to the New York … Continue reading →

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