Cold is the man who can’t love, The old mountains of dear Wales, To him and his warmest friend, A cheerful holiday next year. Cold is the snow on Mount Snowdon, Even though it has a flannel blanket on it,…
Monthly Archives: December 2015
A Welsh New Year Wish
Tagged with: Christmas Carols, John Ceiriog Hughes, New Year, Translation, Welsh
Posted in Christmas, translation
Posted in Christmas, translation
‘Jack Finn’s Carols
Finnish Christmas carols are often seen as extraordinarily depressing. That isn’t quite fair. In fact, we have a Finn (Jaakko Suomalainen, Jacobus Finno) to thank for some of the best loved carols worldwide. He was a priest and head of the…
Tagged with: Christmas Carols, Finnish, Jacobus Finno, Latin, Piae Cantiones, Swedish, Translation
Posted in Christmas, history, translation
Posted in Christmas, history, translation
A Translation for every Teenager
Every teenager in Sweden should get a translation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We should all be Feminists in time for Christmas. What would I give every teenager in translation into English? Something from a teenage perspective: Their peers are more likely…
Tagged with: Blake Ferris, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Farsi, Kannada, Malala Yousafzai, Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa, Persepolis, Polish, Rutka Laskier, Swedish, Translation, Young Adult
Posted in books, film, gender, international, translation
Posted in books, film, gender, international, translation
Learn Finnish by Christmas
Finland is 98 today. You can celebrate all the way to Christmas by learning the language. Don’t worry, it’s not as hard as you think. You can learn a new word every day with the Finland emoji Advent calendar. Catch…
Tagged with: advent, emoji, Finnish, Language, Oxford English Dictionary, Santa Claus, Translation
Posted in Illustration, language, translation
Posted in Illustration, language, translation
Waiting for the dawn
It’s advent. It’s still getting darker. The earth is drained of colour, finally covered in snow, waiting for spring. People are on the move, looking for a place to rest safely. It’s a waiting time. Waiting for the wilderness to…
Tagged with: advent, Dawood Azami, Parween Faiz Zadah Malaal, Pashto, Poetry, Poetry Translation Centre, Translation
Posted in Christmas, poetry, translation
Posted in Christmas, poetry, translation
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