Foreign languages and trade: Evidence from a natural experiment [PDF]
, 2015 Cultural factors and common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far.
Fidrmuc, J, Fidrmuc, J
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Foreign Languages and Trade [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries.
Fidrmuc, J, Fidrmuc, J
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Forming social impressions from voices in native and foreign languages. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 We form very rapid personality impressions about speakers on hearing a single word. This implies that the acoustical properties of the voice (e.g., pitch) are very powerful cues when forming social impressions.
Baus C +4 more
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Speak Foreign Languages with Your Own Voice: Cross-Lingual Neural Codec Language Modeling [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 We propose a cross-lingual neural codec language model, VALL-E X, for cross-lingual speech synthesis. Specifically, we extend VALL-E and train a multi-lingual conditional codec language model to predict the acoustic token sequences of the target language
Zi-Hua Zhang +12 more
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X-LLM: Bootstrapping Advanced Large Language Models by Treating Multi-Modalities as Foreign Languages [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable language abilities. GPT-4, based on advanced LLMs, exhibits extraordinary multimodal capabilities beyond previous visual language models.
Feilong Chen +6 more
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Watching Subtitled Films Can Help Learning Foreign Languages. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Watching English-spoken films with subtitles is becoming increasingly popular throughout the world. One reason for this trend is the assumption that perceptual learning of the sounds of a foreign language, English, will improve perception skills in non ...
Birulés-Muntané J, Soto-Faraco S.
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Online Communication Tools in Teaching Foreign Languages for Education Sustainability
Sustainability, 2021 Higher education curricula are developed based on creating conditions for implementing many professional and universal competencies. In Russia, one of the significant competencies for a modern specialist is business communication in oral and written ...
N. Martyushev +4 more
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Rating System in Training Specialists for Coal Mining Region Enterprises [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 This paper is devoted to the experience of implementing the Rating System for Students’ Performance Assessment at the institution of higher education (Kemerovo State University) in coal-mining region.
Islamov Roman, Sergeychick Tatyana
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The Assessment of a “Crossover” Translation Technique for Innovative Development of Central Asia Mining Regions [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Innovative development of mining regions is undoubtedly determined by efficient specialists in mining engineering, ecology and natural resources management.
Islamov Roman, Greenwald Oksana
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A Contrastive Corpus Study on Lexical Features of the English Translation of the Report of the 20th and 19th CPC National Congress [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 As the channel spreads the Chinese voice and promotes Chinese culture, the status of political document translation is self-evident with the deepening of global communication.
Zhang Yiyu +3 more
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