Daily Dose: December 5

From the Sophia Echo…a write up of the meeting of the Association of Language Testers of Europe.
The Chicago suburbs are in fact pretty cool, if I don’t say so myself: Naperville residents wouldn’t mind an elementary school language program (if there were time in the schedule that is).
According to research, what you speak influences what you hear.
A blog entry which comments on an interesting question: why does it seem that (well, sometimes) the English of any non-native speaker is subtitled in English?
The joy of cursing is one-sided: a hilarious take on second language swearing by EFL Geek’s blog. (EDIT: In fact, this comes from A Geek In Korea. Looks like Katie is the real geek, the one who can’t read anyway.)
Be careful doing interviews or press conferences in languages you don’t speak…in Gwyneth Paltrow’s experience (for the record, the interview in question wasn’t really done in a foreign language but it makes a funny headline)