The German language should be simplified and made more accessible to all. Then integration would also work, says Abbas Khider. His proposals sound strange at first, but they are not. A book for grammar lovers. By Swantje Schutz “Deutsch fuer alle: Das endgueltige Lehrbuch” (i.e. German for everybody: the ultimate textbook) by Abbas Khider has only …
The language also referred to by some as “Twi” is spoken in Ghana by 58% of the population. Around 30% of Ivorians also speak the language. by Isaac Kaledzi – March 31, 2019 A group of young Ghanaians has started translating Wikipedia pages into Ghana’s foremost local language “Akan”. The language also referred to by some as “Twi” …
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Jennifer Medina SAN DIEGO — With a mother and her three children facing deportation, the immigration judge wanted to make sure the woman understood the charges against her. But even with the help of an interpreter speaking in Q’anjob’al, a Mayan language, Magdalena Lucas Antonio de Pascual appeared to comprehend little. “What language do you …
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Posted on March 18, 2019 by Pragmatic Mom The 2019 5th Annual ReFoReMo (Reading for Research Month) Online Picture Book Challenge is coming up in March. ReFoReMo supports picture book writers, educators, and students who enjoy learning about stellar writing from mentor texts. I’m participating this year with five books 5 current book titles that have opened my eyes to one …
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By IFP Media Wire -March 19, 2019 Popular search engines use machine translation to translate one language to another in seconds. But the problem with machine translation is it merely substitutes the words without really understanding the meaning behind them. While this is impressive, it can also be a reason for concern for many companies trying to …
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B. Kolappan – MARCH 15, 2019 On Wednesday, addressing a mammoth election rally in Nagercoil, Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a spirited attack on the Rafale deal saying the contract was awarded to [Anil] Ambani, who had no previous experience in manufacturing aircraft. But the Tamil audience did not get the import of his English speech …
CBC Books · Posted: Mar 12, 2019 Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette‘s novel Suzanne is a fictionalized version of the life of Suzanne Meloche, the grandmother she never knew. Barbeau-Lavalette researched and wrote about her grandmother’s life as a way of understanding the decision to abandon her family in pursuit of her own fulfillment. Originally published in French as La femme qui fuit in 2015, the novel was translated …
From “reunification” to “mainland” to “renegade province”, the way we talk about Taiwan affects the world’s perceptions of Asia’s most vibrant democracy. By Jenna Lynn Cody 2019/03/11 Consume any mainstream English-language media about Taiwan, and you’ll come across an abundant lexicon of terms that sound as though they help define the Taiwan-China situation: “renegade province”, “split in …
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Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. Not long ago I had dinner in Montreal with two bilingual friends: Daphne, a francophone Canadian, who speaks flawless English, and Michael, an American, who managed to ‘go native’ in Quebec. My own French is functional when it comes to ordering a meal, finding my way around or indulging in guilty pleasures of …
G S Jayasree – MARCH 07, 2019 Despite facing a double disadvantage of language and gender, body of translation literature of and by women is growing in the country Women translators. Translating women. The moment we begin writing about women engaged in the act of moving a text from one language to another, we face the very …
