How to Pick the Best Foreign-Language Translation
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Chinese, language, literature, quotes, thought | 8 Comments »As I mentioned in my earlier post Adventures in Russian Translation, I read a lot of foreign books. Nowadays, I estimate that I read more books that have been translated from foreign languages than originated in my own. ...
Adventures in Russian Translation
Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted in language, quotes, thought | 2 Comments »As you may have noticed, I've been on another hiatus lately... November has been an extremely busy month for me. I'm participating in the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this month and it'll be zapping all my writing energy ...
A Quick Dabble in Mandarin Chinese
Saturday, April 21st, 2007 Posted in Chinese, language, thought | 2 Comments »At the moment, I'm studying both Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. I bring this up because until I became immersed in the world of Asian languages, it never occurred to me how little English and other European languages actually connect ...
