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11/09/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/parenting/family-second-language-coronavirus.html

For some families, the pandemic has meant a return to their native languages.

30/03/2018

Nathan Scott McNamara talks to translator Christina MacSweeney about her work with Valeria Luiselli, Verónica Ge**er Bicecci, and Daniel Saldaña París.

25/02/2018

Being Italian, for me, begins and ends with the fact that I speak and write in the Italian language

19/07/2017

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/09/translated-fiction-sells-better-uk-english-fiction-elena-ferrante-haruki-murakami

Survey commissioned by the Man Booker International prize finds authors including Elena Ferrante and Haruki Murakami are driving a boom in UK sales of translated literary fiction

10/05/2016

We love this guy

The curious thing is how differently literary influence plays out when you are transferring to another language. In the same language, influence can look dangerously like imitation. But transferring Natalia Ginzburg into my English world, linguistic and cultural, made something new happen.

17/04/2016

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/06/15/english-showing/

01/04/2016

Despite undeniable improvement in online translation tools, language contains nuances that are impossible for computers to ever learn how to interpret.

28/08/2015

“Look, la muna!” Three little words that encompass two worlds. This is the first complete sentence I remember, the first spoken record of our escapades as a bilingual family. It was a spring evenin...

17/08/2015

If you've ever wanted to master a new language, take a lesson from the pros — foreign diplomats.

16/06/2015

These days Noam Chomsky is probably most famous for his consistent, outspoken criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Yet before the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, Chomsky became internationally famous for proposing a novel solution to an age-old question: what does a baby know?

10/05/2015

The author of Between You & Me on the role of the semicolon, Barack Obama’s failings and her doomed attempt to polish Woody Allen’s jokes