Translation vs. Natural Language Acquisition
One focuses on nuts and bolts, but they both focus on communication.
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Lies About Real Estate Investing
Your home is not an investment.
Read MoreLeveraging Main Street
Antonio Graceffo discusses the practice of spending money you don’t have on things you don’t need or on risky investments.
Read MoreLetter From an Exile
A Former Burmese Freedom Fighter Cries for his Stricken Land
Read MoreBernie Madoff the New King of Ponzi
People all over the world read the headlines, and knew Bernie Madoff must have done something bad, but a lot of people don’t know exactly what a hedge fund is, or what Madoff did wrong.
Read MoreTomorrow’s Spending Today
Many economists predicted that the system couldn’t go on forever, and that the whole economy would eventually blow up. I guess they got it right.
Read MoreInsane Polyglots: Their brains are just different
When the aliens mother ship finally arrives, Pramjeet Singh will be the only one who can talk to them. He’ll make lots of money and they will put him in charge. The rest of us will be sent out to labor in the fields, and if we complain, Pamjeet Singh and his UFO buddies will say, “Shut up and eat your pudding.” But we won’t understand, because our brains just don’t work that way. Learning a new language rewires your brain. Could learning a new language make you crazy?
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The Badjao People of Palawan Island
Along the way, I looked in the happy faces of Jaji and his family. They were extremely poor and their lives were so simple, but maybe because of that simplicity they had a freedom and peace that most of us will never know. We spend thousands of dollars for a fishing vacation in a tropical paradise. Jaji and his family live like that every day.
Read MoreAbout Chinese translation: Is Anyone really Qualified?
I really want to get through this, and reinvent myself as a Chinese translator, but I am really afraid. I am afraid of the hard work. I am afraid of having to create my own path, but mostly, I am afraid of repeating my mistakes of the past.
Read MoreThe Vanishing Batak Tribe
As the tribe disappeared in the rearview mirror, I realized that soon they would disappear forever. Did that mean little Jonus would die, never having attended school? Lorenzo would surely be one of the first to go. Then who would be the leader of the tiny enclave that would be left? Would people like Elicio come and exploit them further?
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