Calvin and Hobbes Books in Translation
Someday, I want to get my hands on the Spanish, Dutch, and Czech translations of this same book.
Just for Fun
Maltese for Foreigners
Maltese is not just a popular breed of dog or an infamous falcon statuette, it’s an amazing hybrid of Arabic and Italian!
Review of China in Ten Words by Yu Hua (translated by Allan H. Barr)
Yu Hua’s book is organized around ten words, but the ten essays in the book aren’t necessarily about the words themselves. They’re about the author’s experiences in the context of Chinese society as it changed and developed around him.
Review of Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows
This is a short, entertaining, accessible book on an interesting topic.
Review and Summary of Arrival (2016 movie)
Quibble how you will about inaccuracies in the depiction of linguistics, the fact that Hollywood deigns to depict a linguist at all is nice.
The Little Prince in Thai (and as a pop-up book)
My collection of copies of The Little Prince just got bigger!
The Little Prince in Translation
Here are my copies of The Little Prince in Lao(atian), Khmer (the language of Cambodia), Vietnamese, Portuguese, the original French, and Italian.
Why Chinese is hard
7. “There are too many [romanization methods], and most of them were designed either by committee or by linguists, or — even worse — by a committee of linguists.”