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Na TEXxDubai, Patricia Ryan, professora de inglês desde há muito tempo, coloca uma questão provocadora: estará a centralização mundial na língua inglesa a impedir a transmissão de grandes ideias que existem em outras línguas? (Por exemplo: e se Einstein tivesse de ter passado no TOEFL?) É uma defesa apaixonada da tradução e da partilha de ideias.
Patricia Ryan has spent the past three-plus decades teaching English in Arabic countries -- where she has seen vast cultural (and linguistic) change. Full bio »
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