Tag Archives: translation

patriots&traitors Patriots and traitors

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

Much of my work in recent years around language learning and migrant settlement has questioned the straightforward link between language learning and settlement success. Policy makers as well as migrants themselves assume that a key factor that keeps migrants out … Continue reading →

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condom-1 Condoms in translation

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

It’s been impossible to escape this week’s media coverage of the pope’s comments about condoms and male prostitutes. There has been a lot of debate about what he really said in the German original and about the quality of the … Continue reading →

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Commemorative stamp, German federal post, 1989: 300 years French school Berlin Providing bilingual education since 1689

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

I’ve been teaching about bilingualism for more than a decade and when I speak about bilingual education and dual-immersion programs I draw on examples from Canada and the USA. These are the examples that fill the literature and the textbooks. … Continue reading →

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wulff i d tuerkei What did Angela Merkel really say?

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

If you read English-language news, you could be forgiven for thinking that Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel recently came out strongly against multiculturalism and immigration. You could be forgiven, but you’d be wrong! The incident makes me wish once again English-language … Continue reading →

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fb_growth rates Multilingualism 2.0

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

The social networking market research site Inside Facebook has some intriguing language stats. In July, the fastest-growing languages on Facebook were Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish and French. The Portuguese growth rate was a staggering 11.8%. Arabic grew by 9.2%, Spanish by … Continue reading →

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