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Delaware Man Accused Of Scam Targeting Immigrants

Forty-seven-year-old Jose Oyola, of Greenwood, is facing charges including Theft and Extortion following an investigation by State Police.

2013/06/12

Mango Passport App

Learning a new language doesn’t have to be a nightmare. The Mango Passport app uses interactive tools and imagery to make the learning process more fun.

2013/02/14

Ultralingua Dictionary App

Translation dictionaries are pretty common in the app store, but you’ll be hard pressed to find one that’s more thorough than the Ultralingua Dictionary.

2013/01/30

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Vocre App

The Vocre translation app lets you have a conversation with someone who doesn’t speak your language.

2012/05/01

Adolescent immigrants, or ‘newcomers’ face some of the toughest challenges in school. To help, The Center for Applied Linguistics researched 63 newcomer programs for promising practices, compiling them in a searchable database.

2012/02/08

(Joe Eastman, a volunteer at the Center for Literacy, gives Mayuko Tanaka some help with English comprehension. Credit: Lauren Lipton)

Positively Philadelphia: Helping People Learn To Read and Speak English

Joe Eastman is a retired military man and a volunteer tutor at the Center for Literacy in Philadelphia.

2011/09/25

Let’s Speak English

“Let’s Speak English,” a program now being offered at eleven branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia, offers conversation English classes to immigrants.

2011/01/10

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