Global Voices · Citizen media stories about Language from August 2009

Language · August, 2009
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Stories about Language from August, 2009

30 August 2009

Israel: When Translations Go Wrong

Written by Maya Norton · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

28 August 2009

East Timor: Abe Barreto Soares’ Poetry for Nation Building

Written by Sara Moreira · East Asia

He calls himself a “wanderer like anyone else” but Abe Barreto Soares is also a poet, a translator and an active blogger. In this interview, he talks about Timorese nationalism,...

Nepal: Taking Oath In Hindi

Written by Rezwan · Quick Reads · South Asia

27 August 2009

Japan: Hazy yet Familiar IT Vocabulary

Written by Tomomi Sasaki · Quick Reads · East Asia

26 August 2009

Laos: Foreign languages in schools

Written by Mong Palatino · Quick Reads · East Asia

24 August 2009

Poland: More on “Lemko Land”

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

21 August 2009

13 August 2009

Haiti: The Revolution & Human Rights

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

9 August 2009

Greece: Armenian singer passes away

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Unknown to most Armenians, but loved by many Kurds for his songs sung in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish, Aram Tigran has passed away in Athens, Greece. Born in 1934...