Traveling around India can get quite…. interesting 🙂 READ MORE
Kids’ screen addiction
Let’s bring their smiles back!
Is this German ad the most emotional (and most controversial) in 2015?
This German ad, by supermarket Edeka, could be the most emotional Christmas ad in 2015. However, not everyone has taken the commercial’s emotional wallop to heart, with some viewers on social media describing the ad as tasteless and manipulative. What do you think?
10-minute history of interpretation at the European Institutions
A 10-minute history of interpretation at the European Institutions since 1957 by the interpreters who work at the biggest interpreting service in the world – the European Commission’s Directorate General for Interpretation (DG SCIC). By Susan Roberts, VideoSCIC 2007
READ MOREFlow Through the City of Tales, meet Istanbul (VIDEO)
How can you describe a city? With words, or poems, or pictures? Istanbul is an ancient city, which has been a subject of all of the above, but never before has Istanbul had such a video. READ MORE
Verbalists strengthen their language education leadership position with prestigious sports camps, while Prodirekt enters new partnerships with academic institutions at the 2015 Berlin ICEF Workshop
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After the Manchester United football club, the representation of Manchester City added to the Verbalists Language Network’s programs portfolio for the great rivalry on the pitch but also in the classroom.
Educational group PRODIREKT LLC, along with its Verbalists Language Network, took part for the 5th time in the most important annual educational workshop held in Berlin, from 1st-3rd November, which was organised by the revered Berlin’s ICEF organisation. READ MORE
Emirates’ flight crew safety video might be the best marketing campaign in 2015
The world is full of creativity, and just when you think you have seen it all, somebody comes up with something even better!
Watch Emirates’ crew demonstrate their “safety video” in front of 65,000 Benfica fans, with a twist… Great job! Clearly one of the best marketing campaigns we will see all this year!
Break free from your mold!
“I wanted to create a sculpture almost anyone, regardless of their background, could look at and instantly recognize that it is about the idea of struggling to break free. This sculpture is about the struggle for achievement of freedom through the creative process.”
– Zenos Frudakis
Is there a difference between “complete” and “finished”?
Some people say there is no difference between “COMPLETE” and “FINISHED”, but we say – there is!
Standing out with eye-catching stunts
Big girls cry music trio models video of lip singing sketchSHE are back with a new car jam and this time they’re nude!
A group of friends have created a hilarious lip sync medley that sees them skip through seven decades of music and ends with the trio getting completely topless. Calling themselves SketchSHE, the models-turned-comedy act from Sydney have created the second ‘car jam’ clip after their first attempt at singing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody went viral with over 18 million YouTube views. READ MORE
More than 75 percent of health care professionals in Serbia are thinking about leaving the country
BELGRADE – More than 75 percent of health care professionals in Serbia are thinking about leaving the country, according to the results of a research on health workforce migration, which could destabilize the country’s health care system.
Presenting the findings of the research “Migration of Health Care Workers from the Western Balkans: Analyzing Causes, Consequences and Policies”, the researchers said that the economic motives had a significant influence on migration.
“The results of the research have shown that more than 75 percent of doctors have considered leaving the country either at some point in their lives or recently. The percentage is even higher (81 percent) among respondents under 35 years of age,” said Dr Maja Krstic, a research associate from Serbia.
She pointed to difficult economic situation and low income, poor working conditions, low employment options and lack of prospects as the main reasons why health care professionals would choose to emigrate.
The Serbian Medical Chamber has issued around 2,000 “certificates of good standing” to medical doctors since 2012, and the number keeps rising, Krstic said, adding that no data were available on the possible country of destination or the length of stay.
At the end of 2014, 2,644 doctors in Serbia were unemployed.
IALC Workshop in Vienna revealed the increase in demand for learning languages other than English in Southeast Europe
“The sweetest business was done over die Sachertorte.”
Belgrade, 19th September 2015 – Educational group PRODIREKT and the Verbalists Language Network today announced new higher education partnerships which were forged at the workshop in Vienna, organized by IALC (International Association of Language Centres). During the workshop, which took place at the prestigious Vienna Savoy Hotel on 16th and 17th September 2015, 21 study travel agents met 16 IALC-accredited schools from 11 countries teaching 5 languages. READ MORE
Discover a different Paris
Discover a different city — one not found in guidebooks, but lived by locals. Sneak into alleys with local hideaways. Visit an underground bar with a secret entrance. And discover a place you can truly belong. It all begins when you stay in a different home.
Airbnb has teamed up with TBWA\Singapore for its latest campaign “A different Paris” to target the Asian markets. READ MORE
Hilarious alerts to threats in Europe
Front page edit please send beer ALERTS TO THREATS IN 2015 EUROPE
From JOHN CLEESE
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorised from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada. READ MORE
US records international student growth
The total number of international students on F-1 (academic) or M-1 (vocational) visas as of July 2015 was 1,054,505, SEVP said in the Sevis by the Numbers report.
The figure represented a 6.9 per cent decrease from the February 2015 total, but was a nine per cent rise compared with the same period in 2014.
Continue reading “US records international student growth”Syrian refugee ‘city’ in Jordan
Jordan’s Syrian refugee ‘city’ – with 115,000 residents, 12 districts, 6,000 shops and its own ‘Champs Elysees’
Spanish on the global scene – SIELE, the new Spanish proficiency exam launched
Called the Servicio Internacional de Evaluación de la Lengua Española, or SIELE, the test is modeled on English exams such as the TOEFL and IELTS, and debuts in 2016. According to an estimate provided by officials at the Cervantes Institute, 300,000 people will take the test in its first year, with that number rising to 750,000 by 2021. READ MORE
Fascinating Oxford at the crack of dawn
It’s midway through the summer at Oxford and the students have gone home for the holidays. This got us thinking about what a completely deserted Oxford might look like, so we got up at the crack of dawn to capture the sights and sounds of an empty city.
Here’s how the dreaming spires look first thing on a summer’s morning…
Continue reading “Fascinating Oxford at the crack of dawn”UK rejected half of EU doctors for poor English
A shocking 45% of the doctors who applied to work in the UK were barred after failing to prove their English-language skills.
About a year after the EU’s freedom of movement rules were amended to require medical doctors to pass a language proficiency exam in order to practice medicine in an EU member state in the doctor’s non-native language, a shocking 45% of the doctors who applied to work in the UK were barred after failing to prove their English-language skills.
Doctors from non-Anglophone EU member states must achieve a sufficient score on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) in order to receive a license to practice medicine in the UK. Out of all the applicants, 779 were rejected. According to the UK’s General Medical Council, only one-third of 245 Italian applicants passed the English requirement; 40% of the 174 Greek applicants passed; and less than a quarter of French applicants earned a license to practice medicine in the UK. Polish and German applicants proved to be the most competent in English, with 69 of 114 Polish doctors and 53 of 79 German doctors scoring at least a 7.5 out of 9 on the IELTS. The IELTS is widely considered to be more challenging than other popular English proficiency exams, such as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC).
The recent language requirement, which came about after a German doctor administered an overdose of painkillers killing a patient in the UK in 2008, aims to ensure that the language barrier never interferes with a patient’s right to appropriate medical care.
Best sexy dance ever, Kizomba
This will make you want to grab hold of that dance partner of yours and sway!
The lovely pair in the video is dancing the sensual and romantic Kizomba dance – one of the most popular dance forms from Angola. Kizomba is a dance that was born in Angola in the late ’70s and the music is based on the Antillean Zouk and dance the Argentine tango. It is a sensual dance that allows you maximum freedom of expression. READ MORE