The word stems from the Latin officium, and its equivalents in various, mainly romance, languages.

Romance studies departments usually include the study of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

Romance studies is an umbrella academic discipline that covers the study of the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language.

Young people have a lot of romanticism for changing the world.

In art, Rand promoted romantic realism.

Buchanan considered such analysis romantic.

Zidane offered neither of these romantic images.

And how much has maturity changed this naïve, romantic idea of changing the world with love.

During the reign of the July Monarchy, the Romantic Era was starting to bloom.

They're also totally out of sync in romantic relationships, which build gradually and subtly.

They watch how Muhannad spoils her with romance, which is missing from our Arab world.

Lane Professor in The Program in Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University.

So, for inspiration I listened to Liszt and Tchaikovsky and all the great Romantic composers.

Driven by the Romantic Era, an atmosphere of protest and revolt was all around in France.

After education, falls the romantic consideration, when high standard of living is everyone s main goal.

This kind of influence of the first language on the second is known as negative language transfer.

If that is true, then Sarkozy missed the romantic opportunity of a lifetime.

Dating agencies have developed increasingly complex algorithms to sort out their clients romantic lives.

The museum building itself, a national romantic style neomedieval castle, is a tourist attraction.

Giscard wrote his second romantic novel, published on 1 October 2009 in France, entitled The Princess and The President .

The 1970s saw screen depictions of ghosts diverge into distinct genres of the romantic and horror.

Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

It is part of the wider western group of Romance languages, including French, Occitan, and Catalan.

In 2003 he entered the University of Georgia, where he obtained a Masters and a Ph.D. in the Department of Romance Languages.

His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.

Language The official language of Jamaica is English.

The main language is colloquial Swahili, and the English language is extensively taught in schools.

Official status Swedish is officially the main language of Sweden.

Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey looked to the newly independent central Asian states in a mood of pan Turkic romanticism.

I m not only alluding to the romantic subjects, you know, we re talking about situations where you can t even show parental affection or a male physician for example, cannot be shown examining a female patient, he adds.

Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the sociology of language focuses on language's effect on the society.

The 1977 Charter of the French Language established French as the official language of Quebec.

Latvian ( latviešu valoda ) is the official state language of Latvia.

This is a different language from Gagauz and Turkish.

It is difficult to exaggerate the strange sentiment in the West which one might call Palestine romanticism.

(d) Languages must have the relevant language as the primary language (usually mother tongue) oral and written proficiency in that language, with strong knowledge of spelling and grammar.

Somali was the working language and is predominantly spoken within the Region, spoken by 95.9 of the inhabitants.

Kheng.Info is a useful portal to learn Khmer, the official language of Cambodia.

Languages Dutch is the sole official language, and is the language of education, government, business, and the media.

Gestural language and vocal language depend on similar neural systems.

The common language used by the delegates during the conference was English.

They introduced the Old English language, which largely displaced the previous British language.

Jamaica stated that the acceptable language was English.

It also stated that the official language of communication was English.

He valued freedom, authentic knowledge, independent thought, the courage of nonconformity, the spirit of resistance, the beauty of Polish romanticism, disinterested behavior, and human dignity.