(From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English) Canadian spelling of the English language combines British and American rules. Most notably, French-derived words that in American English end with -or and -er, such as color or center, usually retain British spellings (colour, honour and centre). While the United States uses the Anglo-French spelling defense (noun), Canada uses the British spelling […]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW   Christina Khourythe interviewee   Jonathan G.the interviewer Preface Our interviewee this month is Christina Khoury, resident of the city of Haifa, Israel. The interview resulted from a stay by your faithful blogger at the Beit Shalom (House of Peace) Hotel, where Christina works. The undersigned overheard Christina conducting three consecutive conversations in Hebrew,

Of libraries and librarians – two bibliophiles span six centuries in an imaginary interview in Oxford   Frank Egerton{Photo Miriam Berkley)L'interviewer   Sir Thomas Bodley(1545 – 1613)l'interviewee “There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanentlyat Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodleian.”Hilaire Belloc Preface : The Bodleian Library

  E X C L U S I V E   I N T E R V I E W (Part 2) The interview below was conducted between Calgary, Canada  and Valencia, Spain Here is a link to the first part of this interview: https://bit.ly/2lYSfyS   Susan Vo – interviewerFrench-English interpreter Brian Harris – intervieweeArabic-English interpreter Calgary,

  E X C L U S I V E   I N T E R V I E W (Part 1) The interview below was conducted between Calgary, Canada  and Valencia, Spain   Susan Vo – interviewerFrench-English interpreter Brian Harris – intervieweeArabic-English interpreter Calgary, Canada   Valence, Spain Our interviewer, Susan VO is a French Interpreter with 14

The Albertine Prize is awarded each year in New York for the best English-language translation of a work of fiction written in French. The winners of the Prize for 2019 are Negar Djavadi, the author of Désorientale,  and the translator, Tina Kover.  Tina's translation, Disoriental,  was published by Europa Editions (May 1, 2018). Négar Djavadi was

AN INTERVIEW TO BE SAVOURED              Andrea Bernstein              - the interviewer Carmella Abramowitz Moreau – the interviewee This month our guest, Carmella Abramowitz Moreau, is a translator specializing in culinary translations from French, and living with her family in the 3rd arrondisement of Paris.

  Our guest linguist this month is an American, a Francophile, a literary translator, and the founder of Le French Book. This New York-based publishing house is dedicated to selecting, translating and publishing contemporary mysteries and thrillers from France, so as to bring them to readers across the English-speaking world. Anne lived in Paris for many years and

otre blogueur fidèle est traducteur et interprète assermenté auprès du Judicial Council of California (hébreu/anglais, français/anglais). Il a vécu sur quatre continents et a passé un an à Paris, où il a obtenu un diplôme en Civilisation française de la Sorbonne – un cas de opsimathie, vu le fait qu'il n'a jamais appris le français

We are honored to have as our linguist of the month Frank Wynne, prestigious literary translator (French>English, Spanish>English). Frank has won numerous prizes for his work. He received the IMPAC award in 2002, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2095 (these two awards being shared with the authors whose works he translated) and the Scott

Ilan Stavans es Profesor de cultura latinoamericana en Amherst College, Massachusetts. El Profesor Stavans tiene tres maestrías, incluyendo una de la Universidad de Columbia, donde también obtuvo su doctorado. Ha enseñado cursos sobre temas como el spanglish, Jorge Luis Borges, poesía moderna americana, música latina, Don Quixote, Gabriel García Márquez, el Modernismo, la cultura popular en Hispanoamerica, escritores internacionales