#TranslationTuesday
March 18, 2025
“What if language is not just a rough instrument in the hands of clumsy people, not just something useful and occasionally poetic, but something that
Language
#TranslationTuesday
January 21, 2025
“One doesn’t learn to speak a language in a couple of months. It will be plugging for a good while yet. Seems that I’ll never
Pitch Perfect Speech
December 12, 2024
Signing up to learn a new language always brings some challenges with it. A huge time investment and lots of self-discipline will always be required,
Learning Language and Culture
June 6, 2024
It is a helpless feeling to look into an indigenous person’s face and realize you have no way of communicating. The team enters as learners
#TranslationTuesday
February 27, 2024
The genius of language is precisely its capacity to express thoughts which the people have not heard before. —Eugene Nida
#TranslationTuesday
February 13, 2024
“All languages and dialects are bearers of identity.” John Edwards: Sociolinguistics, a very short introduction
Why Language Learning Matters
July 5, 2023
Several months ago I was sitting in my office with my language helper doing another language session. In this session we were exploring some of
#TranslationTuesday
December 20, 2022
“Undoing Babel would imply eliminating linguistic difference and giving everyone a single language to speak. In fact, the gospel does something quite different—uniting people in
#TranslationTuesday
October 4, 2022
“When a European has been living for two or three years among strangers, he is sure to be fully convinced that he knows all about
Must You Really Learn That Language?
September 16, 2022
“Why don’t you just teach the people Spanish rather than trying to learn their language?” This question is a common one when people hear that
