or set up criteria for identifying what those major languages are. populations can be fluid so what the major languages are today might not be that in 10 years >> yes. very quickly i'm a very long supporter of the motion and commissioner keane it's a no-brainer. in terms of costs if all the city departments have the guides materials in spanish and asian mandar mandarin tlag so this should be a priority if you're resources are limited cut them somewhere else you don't need a study for a need for materials in other languages. perhaps 40 percent of the electorate in the city probably will support this i support it >> hello commissioners joe kelly i'm a member of the civil grand jury as well. i wanted to suggest that the - commissioner keane referenced every department doing this in all languages i get the sense of all the documentations i don't know if it's all departments doing it. with all the documentation that's being put out there so i would just suggest that commissioner hur of studying it is worthwhile and peas male and female it out there to get

next speaker, please. >> hello. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> hello, everyone i'm here to speak for my grandson. he was assigned to requested to go to balboa, however, he was not assigned to that school he was crying everyday and not wanting to go to school >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so actually his mom kind of passed away some time ago and i'm his grandchildren he was very sad that's why he asked me to speak to you and hopefully get help from you. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> well, actually he went to a middle school near balboa park for a few years he really liked the neighborhood he had set in his mind he want to go to balboa high school he was not assigned to that school and disappointed that's why it is make we wondering why do you provide us the choice options, however, we choose the school we didn't get the assignment for the school of our choose so i'm thinking the school districts assignment policy is fooling us around. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i'm here to kind of strongly asking you to help us to place my grandson to the school he wants and i

>> no wyoming that would be saying much my comments to the language and number one mr. chair. >> any commissioners have any other proposed amendments other than number one. >> as amended i take you, you move we adapt the response to finding and recommendation number one with the ability to change that sentence. >> yes. >> do i have a second. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> i. >> does anyone want to comment on you're taking it out? i thought you were going to ask us to comment on all of one >> go ahead. >> one f has to do with the f p pc. and our investigation from the civil grand jury is that the f p pc is prepared to accept a contracted for the local laws they have the same authority and open to the suggestions of the board of supervisors to create a similar arrangement for san francisco. so this statement says that it's possible the charter with prohibit a contract nothing in the statement that would prohibit that it says in - it says it's not allowed under the state law that's not what the agency told the grand jury because of our confidentiality but we can tell me

to go to washing and lincoln. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> tilt we live in sunset so washington and lincoln is very close to our house my son since in fourth grade is leon violin so he is looking to go to a high school that has an ornament program so i hope the superintendents will help us solve this problem. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and because john is so far away from our house and difficult to send my son to john o con everyday in order to send him to school and put another layer of burden into our low income status so i hope the superintendent can look at our case and help us out. >> thank you, everyone. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> hello, everyone i really understand the parents how she felt and actually and i have the similar experience as the other speaker. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> okay. so just now i heard from you all people talking about we do all the things for the good of the students, however, i have a series case here because my girl is not going to school right now i want to b

sounds at all in of the languages because the brain is ready to learn a language but the brain doesn't know whether the birth landed them in beijing on london. it has to be ready to learn new language. all of that changes by 12 months when the child has lost that universal language learning ability. as a result of language they've been overhearing in those kinds of social interactions. as a result of the brain rewires itself to learn the language that the child or languages the child has overheard. and this is the beginning of the vocabulary that take place in the second year. all of that in the first 18 months of life. >> you say as society, we have a serious challenge. >> we do because there are two pieces of information that ought to concern us. one is that the achievappears a appears as soon as child enters the school house door. we are seeing quite a significant difference in language skills and mathematical skills between kids from most advantaged and least advantaged homes. that's one concern. the other concern is equally significant. children's experience in school only widens

read the language.learning another language helped me understand english and the way it's put together. -- the way english is put together. caller: diane is calling in from massachusetts on our line for independents. was a: my husband schoolteacher and he loved it and he had to retire early because he had some the students that did not understand him. they sent him home with a packet to learn spanish and he said, i can't do this and he had to retire early. you have committees and government trying to figure out why the kids are doing so poorly in school. havingate jobs by schools for these kids to learn english because it's not fair to in the the kids classroom that speak english. it holds up everything. i don't understand this business of we are afraid of immigrants and all that. my parents were immigrants and my husband's grandparents were immigrants. nobody bent over backwards to have translators for the italians and germans and the french. i don't understand why this thinks that they are different.

>> so that language then that disagree and also the language at the top of page 3 that would that should go out. >> i think for the recommendation 3 we would say that the per the vice chair that we need to look at whether enhancing the citizens right of action would be the proper mechanism for the enhancement of the ethnics law if so we'll make a recommendation to the board. >> specifically mr., we have to take out the proposed language for example, at the top of page 3 the action of the status quo will not be implemented. >> the whole recommendation will have to change. >> my recommendation is not to increase recommendation 3 the commission will investigate to determine whether or not the enhancement of a private citizens right of action would accomplish the further assurance of the public that the lazy will be enforced. what did the city attorney want to say something >> the deputy city attorney wanted to say there's a current action in the public code but it doesn't necessarily provide a board remedy as proposition j so any resident can file for an injunctive relieve for a proposed vi

chair, i would strongly recommend that we not use the language in our response whereas, to that finding number one we say we disagree. and for one thing what we have been saying many times in regard to this commission and this commissions resources and the ability to handle many of the things we want to handle we are hamstrung because of the lack of resources. and in regard to where we respond to this finding it is almost like someone is living in a parallel world rather than addressing something different and what this commission has been saying all along first of all, the grand jury cited no instances where there's is clrtsz where the ethics commission failed to act due to a lack of resources. i think it's eir respect whether the grand jury came up with specifics or onerous burden of proof on their point where we failed to do something we should have done. we generally acknowledge among ourselves at our meetings we need nor investigators we need more staff and resources. so to rather than to say in our findings we disagree and take the grand jury to task for saying you haven't cited a

by language minority populations? i'm just wondering because i know the small business exchange being designated for the latino or chinese or immigrant communities, i'm just wondering if they have the abilities to communicate in languageses other than english. so, i'm just asking what are the requirements under our language access ordinance or even just that we follow so that populations that might not be proficient in english would still have adequate notice from our city. >> well, i'm not familiar with the language ordinance. the admin code 2.8 does not require that the notices be published in any particular language. however, the outreach newspapers that represent the chinese community and hispanic community tend to be published in that language. the small business exchange is a little different. they represent minority small business owners. we do have non-responsive bid submissions from foreign language newspapers [speaker not understood], publishes in spanish. cinta daily and world journal publish in chinese. >>

language lessons start at dawn and go on for 90 minutes.break before regular schooling resumes. they also are here on weekend, but don't seem to mind the extra hours. >> translator: i want to mast meyer own language, also this is honor or for my community. >> reporter: the culture and lit cure committing, a self-funded organization runs the program. >> translator: our duty is not just to preserve our language, but also to promote it. we strive to towards that. it is the mission of our ethnic group. >> reporter: there are more than 130 ethnic groups in myanmar, so far, only this one and one other have reintroduced ethnic languages in national schools. but some others are expected to follow suit. the old view that being multilingual could threaten national security is being questioned. >>> don't forget that you can keep right up-to-date all the day's developments on the al jazerra website. >> the united states spent a decade, thousands of lives and trillions of dollars to overthrow saddam hussein and create a new iraq and now the islamic stat

but language is key. he makes that point. as long as you continue to speak in the false language of american democracy, liberty, how can you use the word liberty. every single one of us in this room has all of our electronic communications down loaded and is stored in perpetuity. you cannot use the word liberty for a population that has wholesale surveillance. you have to use the word slavery and any government that has the capacity to use that mechanism will use it. the purpose of wholesale surveillance in a totalitarian state is not defined crimes but to gather evidence so at the moment that you seek to criminalize an entire group of people you have the trivia. it is not evidence because at that point crimes and truth and all of this is a fiction. but you have the material. that is precisely what is happening to us. so when that stasi state fell, it fell in a week and it fell when suddenly this handful of protesters in leipzig were joined by 70,000 people. and eric sent out an elite paratroop division to fire on the crowd.

all languages require you to pronounce words correctly. but mandarin goes further. you also need to pronounce them with the correct tone. >> there's first tone, second tone, third tone, and fourth tone, and those are all unique ways to pronounce a word. so, you can put together a sentence that's like ma, ma, ma, mand that means "mom scolded the numb horse." it's the same word. >> if you don't pronounce the tone correctly, the meaning will be wrong. it will cause a lot of misunderstanding. >> so, do you have to be a language genius to learn chinese? >> definitely not. because over the years, actually, i have been teaching chinese total for 25 years, and so many kids, they have learned from all kind of background. i just, sometimes i'm amazed they can do what they can do. [ all singing in chinese ] >> these middle school students aren't just learning speak in chinese. they're learning sing in chinese. >> every friday, it's the quiz, and after quiz i want them to relax. so, i will teach them songs. >> singing and speaking mandarin are just the beginning. learning the w

but the languages of in the spoken language, is a language that does not have allowed a preposition, does not have a lot of conditional verb tenses and so forth. yet to get what is being set fires in by content. have to transit the precise version meaning of things by the larger context you're speaking in. that is a deeply chinese thing. it is the essence of chinese, this view of context. this deal of it weaves of relationship and obligation. this idea that language is part of an tradition the feel of their bone and the you feel expressed in your ear, these attorneys have tried to convey to her parents today she has enough of a sense. it comes out sometimes the playfulness with which you speak english and the way they will do things and focus on the musicality and the rhythmic nature of language. chinese is such a poetic and a rhythmic language, particularly if you get into the official chinese and everything is of five beats or seven beats and chinese poetry is in this concise or rhythmic way. it is the way that my daughter's wedding to write and conversant to choke in english. i wo

some of it it caught my eye on section 201 a we're going adding language existing language says we'll be rounding down but then we're adding language that says except in the mom and dad's we're going to round them up is that coming from something >> there's a change in supervisor wiener's recent proposal i'm not entirely sure. >> okay. >> make some comment? >> sorry i'm move to approve the resolution with intent to approve. >> we would like to set a date september 24th i recommend the committee consider september 12th and i'll not be here for the entire month of september. >> september 4th is a very full calendar it's the first hearing after the break so i might want to consider october the 23 is open. >> october 2nd. >> very good. >> again i'm sorry october 2nd, i will not be here i'll be here the next week to complete the staff report. >> what do you recommend. >> i recommend september 4th. >> but in october what do you recommend. >> october 9th is this week after october 2nd. >> october 16th? enjoy your time off >> he has to get feedback from the city attorney's office. >> commissi

they need a shared language.t on your ability to run your business globally, and certain local markets, develop your strategy and most importantly to keep, develop, and evaluate talent. >> your younger talent, everybody speaks english. locally,t companies, they probably speak the local language. when they get better for execs,s or speaking to they speaking was. is, can. read, learning to write, learning to order a pizza or do you have to become fluent? >> for local employees it is about training your people in japan or italy to speak to some sufficient amount of english. and then it is making sure that you, that ex-pats that are there evaluate local talent accurately as opposed to people who speak that are english and communicate better. you have to avoid that trap. your article,f you push aside this idiocy that you're going to learn a language in your spare time. you say learned the language on company time. that is the heart of the discussion. >> the company needs to have a strategy for helping you do it so tha

what he wrote in the language of everyday people. as a writer, that is deceptive because it is extremely difficult and he once said that as a writer i want to be that clear windowpane by which people can see through and he did that. and so when he writes his response in the rights of man, he goes after his very florid style and i think that language is extremely important because we live in a society now we're those who have power and we have specialized vocabularies that shut the rest of us out. economists have been particularly good at this. and we have a specialized vocabulary that those of us on the outside are not able to penetrate and that becomes a kind of barrier in terms of our ability to exercise our right as citizens and that is why his writings are so effective. common sense is arguably one of the greatest essays of english. when he writes the rights of man come it becomes extremely important. in the second part of "rights of man", he outlines the whole welfare state. and the pit government goes nuts and they pass this la

. >> and so, it is no language in there, that says that... >> and we do have that language, and so what you are saying is that we say after a year it is forfeited but we don't talk about the fact that there is forfeit turf unused funds at the end of the year on fsa and i think that it was about the balance of the rules and not describing the plan design and so we do have that language in the cafeteria document and in the other documents about the fsa benefit, but the rules, language and what we have an appeal, we often refer to the rules, and to administer that and if we need to put that in we can, but usually we take the plan benefit information and put it in either the cafeteria plan or the other document and so the benefit guide, for example has an extensive amount of information on the part of the fsa benefit. >> so it is really up to the board if you want to add it to the rules we can, but there is that balance, of benefit design, detail in the rules, verses elsewhere. >> so i think that the commissioner lim what you are saying is that someone or a member were to read this, they wo

even though language is not designated america's official language, it's what most of us speak in public. for more than one in five, it's not the primary language at home. 60.6 million in the u.s. speak something else with their families. spanish, including spanish creole is the most dominant. second, indoe europe languages. asian pacific. the number of people speaking languages speaking has tripled from 23.1 million in 1980 to the 60 million plus today. spanish increased the most by 26 million. vietnamese people had the biggest percentage increase growing in number by 26%. slate.com looked at which languages are most dominant in each state. spanish dominant in all but seven. french is tops in four. when english and spanish are taken out of the equation, german becomes the dominant language. in other parts of the county, surprising langer went out. vietnamese is big in texas and nearby states including oklahoma. chinese follows english and spanish. a sign of a changing america. >> coming up, did facebook kill satire by identifying it? >>> most of us have been duped by an online article f

. >>> the languages of minority groups of myanmar are making a comeback. more than 50 years burmese was only allowed to be taught in schools. >> reporter: this teacher is teaching children to read and write in their mother tongue. most of these children are from the shawn ethnic minority. and while they speak the shawn language, this is the first time they are learning the written script in school. >> translator: in addition to teaching, i'm a farmer. after teaching in the morning i go back to the fields. >> reporter: she learned how to read and write shawn in a monastery. previously the only place one could do so. the shawn culture and literature committee which trains teachers for about a week before sending them out to schools has only managed to recruit about 30 people. after the military took power in the early 1960s, burmese was the only language taught in state schools, but the 2008 constitution ensured that ennick -- ethnic minorities could learn their own language. lessons start at dawn and go on for 90 minutes. the children get a break before reg