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…
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Learn Finnish by Christmas
Tagged with: advent, emoji, Finnish, Language, Oxford English Dictionary, Santa Claus, Translation
Posted in Illustration, language, translation
Posted in Illustration, language, translation
Books for everyone
We need diverse books has one of the best summer reading campaigns around. Every day they’ll offer you and the children and young people you know a new perspective on a favourite story to expand your world. The campaign links to sources…
Tagged with: Children's Books, Erich Kästner, German, international, Language, Letterbox Press, Lucie Arnoux, Mantra Lingua, Polish, Pushkin Children's Books, Translation, We Need Diverse Books, Young Adult
Posted in books, international
Posted in books, international
O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau: Patagonia 150
One of my earliest language-learning memories is of hot summer afternoons in the early years of high school, when even our unquenchably enthusiastic Welsh teacher would give up and just tell us stories. Of a land far far away, where children…
Tagged with: Language, Patagonia, Translation, Welsh, Y Wladfa
Posted in history, international, language, translation
Posted in history, international, language, translation
70 Years of Victory in Europe: Māori stories
Millions of non-Europeans are only starting to get the recognition they deserve for their contribution to the end of “the world’s war in Europe”. You might know that 1.5 million Indians fought alongside 5m Brits at the end of empire,…
Tagged with: 28th Battalion, Italian, Language, Maori, Translation, VE Day
Posted in history, international, translation
Posted in history, international, translation
Happy Chinese New Year! Separating the Sheep from the Goats
The Chinese year of the yang starts today. You can see its horns in the character (taken from the Epoch Times, a committedly independent source of Chinese news) – but is it a sheep or a goat? The distinction is not…
Tagged with: Chinese New Year, Goat, Language, Sheep, Translation, Yang
Posted in international, language
Posted in international, language
sounds British? Save our Sounds!
If, like me, you still regret getting rid of your lovingly created mix cassette tapes, complete with breath of radio 1 DJ at the end of each song, even though you haven’t had anything to play them on for years,…
Tagged with: British, British Library, English, Language, Save our Sounds, sound, Translation, Welsh
Posted in language, translation
Posted in language, translation
The Newest New Words
(Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, 1872, with John Tenniel’s illustration) To be master or mistress of meanings, you need to be up to date with good sources. You might remember that the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) will deliver a new…
Tagged with: Alice in Wonderland, English, German, John Tenniel, Language, Lewis Carroll, neologisms, Through the Looking Glass, Translation, words
Posted in language
Posted in language
International Translation Day 2014: Language Rights are Human Rights
There are still many places around the world where linguistic minorities are persecuted and do not have the same access to work, education, health care or justice. Where I was born, the original Welsh Language Act had been in force…
Tagged with: human rights, International Translation Day, Language, linguistic rights, PEN, Sami, Translation, Welsh
Posted in international, translation
Posted in international, translation
100 years of pacifism 1914-2014
100 years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot in Sarajevo, triggering what H.G. Wells called the “war that will end war”; it wasn’t long before the irony of that phrase was felt. The Oxford English Dictionary has…
Tagged with: Émile Arnaud, English, First World War, French, Language, Oxford English Dictionary, Pacifism, Translation, words
Posted in history, international, language, words
Posted in history, international, language, words
waiting for translation: Tokarczuk’s Bieguni
You know that feeling when you’re waiting at an airport, trying to guess where other are from and where they are going? You start writing in your notebook, observing the man across from you, who is writing in his notebook,…
Tagged with: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Bieguni, English, Language, Literature, Olga Tokarczuk, Polish, Translation
Posted in books, international, language, literature, translation
Posted in books, international, language, literature, translation
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