يناقش المقال الذي كتبه ابراهيم أبو عواد ونشرته شبكة النبأ المعلوماتية حدود قدرة الجوائز الأدبية العربية على إيصال الكاتب إلى العالمية، موضحًا أن الفوز لا يكفي من دون ترجمة احترافية ونشر وتوزيع وتسويق وعلاقات مهنية مستمرة. ويؤكد أهمية دور المؤسسات والناشرين والمترجمين والوكلاء في بناء مسار حقيقي للكتاب العربي خارج…
The worldwide web must also be wordwise. Slowly but surely, we’re getting there. In today’s interconnected world, is language really still a barrier? The answer is yes, but not for long. The world’s population is projected to reach seven billion by the end of 2011. Nearly two billion of these…
It is no exaggeration to say that bolstering foreign language education for ensuing generations is vital to our nation’s economic and national security. Imagine a storeroom full of hundreds of hours of audio recordings and documents in Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, or Korean. The materials might hold the clues to prevent…
7,097 languages are spoken today. That number is constantly in flux because we’re learning more about the world’s languages every day. And beyond that, the languages themselves are in flux. They’re living and dynamic, spoken by communities whose lives are shaped by our rapidly changing world. This is a fragile time: Roughly…
The table below lists the official language of each country as well as other languages spoken. In selected countries, the percent of the population that speaks each language is also given. Afghanistan Dari Persian, Pashtu (both official), other Turkic and minor languages Albania Albanian (Tosk is the official dialect), Greek…
I readily admit I do not have the capacity to translate any of my books into Spanish. Though I am proud of my heritage, I stopped speaking both Spanish and English for a full year beginning at age three. My parents were in a panic and took me to be…
