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. ...
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 ...
