Archive: Jun 2018

  1. Native Language Schools Are Taking Back Education

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    Native Language Schools Are Taking Back Education

    “A movement to revitalize tribal languages is underway. The success of ‘Aha Pūnana Leo and promise of Mukayuhsak Weekuw are examples of communities taking education into their own hands. When Native American students are taught in their own language and culture, they succeed.”

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    INTERCONTINENTALCRY.ORG
    Native Language Schools Are Taking Back Education
    For more than 150 years, the Wôpanâak language was silent. With no fluent speakers alive, the language of the Mashpee Wampanoag people existed only in historical documents. It was by all measures extinct. But a recently established language school on the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s reservation in …

  2. Disney’s ‘Moana’ debuts in Olelo Hawaii at star-studded premiere

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    Disney’s ‘Moana’ debuts in Olelo Hawaii at star-studded premiere

    “It’s the first time a Disney movie has ever been re-recorded in Native Hawaiian….The cast also includes 24 Hawaiian-language speaking actors and singers from local communities.”

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    HAWAIINEWSNOW.COM
    Disney’s ‘Moana’ debuts in Olelo Hawaii at star-studded premiere
    The Polynesian-themed Disney hit is making its worldwide debut — again. Only this time, everything is in the Hawaiian language.

  3. Deng Xiaoping’s interpreter, valuable eyewitness to China’s four decades of reform and opening-up

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    Deng Xiaoping’s interpreter, valuable eyewitness to China’s four decades of reform and opening-up

    “Chen [Feng] said that Deng spoke with a strong Sichuan accent using words or phrases that were very innovative and groundbreaking. He often put forward new ideas in idiomatic colloquial terms that were a challenge both for immediate comprehension and exact interpreting.”

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    XINHUANET.COM
    Deng Xiaoping’s interpreter, valuable eyewitness to China’s four decades of reform and opening-up – Xinhua | English.news.cn
    File Photo taken April, 1974 shows Deng Xiaoping, then head of the Delegation of the People’s Republic of China, addressing the Sixth Special Session of the UN General Assembly. (Xinhua/Qian Sijie)

  4. The two really important people at the summit (beside Trump and Kim)

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    The two really important people at the summit (beside Trump and Kim)

    “What a crucial job they had. Interpreting at the diplomatic level can be the difference between finding peace or causing an international incident. Every word uttered by a world leader had to be interpreted and relayed to the other with exacting context and nuance.”

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    CNN.COM
    The two really important people at the summit (beside Trump and Kim)
    She’s a longtime State Department employee; he’s a member of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry. They made sure Trump and Kim understood each other.

  5. Meet the ‘Unsung Hero’ Who Interpreted for President Trump During His 1-on-1 With Kim Jong Un

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    Meet the ‘Unsung Hero’ Who Interpreted for President Trump During His 1-on-1 With Kim Jong Un

    “[Yun Hyang Lee] doesn’t try to be the star of the show, she says in the background….She’s very attuned to getting the interpretation and translation right rather than being more involved than she has to be.”

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    TIME.COM
    Meet Donald Trump’s Interpreter at the North Korea Summit
    “She’s an unsung hero”

  6. Egyptian linguist Hussein Mahmoud: ‘Translation is the best medium for dialogue between civilisations’

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    Egyptian linguist Hussein Mahmoud: ‘Translation is the best medium for dialogue between civilisations’

    “Through translation, one nation can form a better mental image of another nation. Translation is like immigration but through literature…It is physically impossible for Naguib Mahfouz to sit down with Lorca or Marquez or Tolstoy and agree on the universal human values they could treat in their works. Translation does that.”

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    THEARABWEEKLY.COM
    Egyptian linguist Hussein Mahmoud: ‘Translation is the best medium for dialogue between civilisations’ | Khaled Bayoumi | AW
    Hussein Mahmoud Hamouda is a professor of…

  7. Study Reveals Brain Activity Patterns Underlying Fluent Speech

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    Study Reveals Brain Activity Patterns Underlying Fluent Speech

    “The findings, which extend previous studies on how the brain interprets the sounds of spoken language, could help guide the creation of new generation of prosthetic devices for those who are unable to speak: brain implants could monitor neural activity related to speech production and rapidly and directly translate those signals into synthetic spoken language.”

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    Study Reveals Brain Activity Patterns Underlying Fluent Speech
    The new research reveals that the brain’s speech centers are organized more according to the physical needs of the vocal tract as it produces speech than by how the speech sounds.

  8. Greatest Women in Translation: Jen Calleja (interview)

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    Greatest Women in Translation: Jen Calleja (interview)

    “Coming from a DIY music and grassroots activism background has informed my compulsion to demystify translation and empower people to try translating who may not have thought it was—as a thing or as a practice—’for them.'”

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    CAROLTRANSLATION.COM
    Greatest Women in Translation: Jen Calleja
    This month, I talk to Jen Calleja, British writer and literary translator.

  9. The Pressures Of Being An Interpreter At A High-Stakes Summit

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    The Pressures Of Being An Interpreter At A High-Stakes Summit

    “In closed-door meetings at the highest level, interpreters face the pressures of global diplomacy.”

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    The Pressures Of Being An Interpreter At A High-Stakes Summit
    President Trump doesn’t speak Korean and little is known about Kim Jong Un’s English skills. The best interpreters serve as both linguists and diplomats. They understand the politics behind the words.