Many Tongues, One Internet

Remember Taslima from the Nari Jibon project in Dhaka? Isn’t she sweet? Now she has her own domain, Taslima.net. Go on and visit and say hello. Yesterday she led a workshop at Nari Jibon to train the other bloggers there how to publish in their native language,...

Hand on the Heart

Georgia and I are compiling a list of our favorite words, phrases, and concepts as we travel around and meet more of our Global Voices colleagues. Among our favorites are “take my salam” which leads every email written by Taslima and “are you in...
[How To] Learn a Foreign Language for Free

[How To] Learn a Foreign Language for Free

There is just no way around it, the very first step to becoming a global citizen is learning another language. Not only does monolingualism prevent you from communicating with the vast majority of the world’s population; it also prevents you from truly...

iPod the Fish

You may have noticed that my murderous threats towards oceanographic graduate students are really nothing more than filibuster as I stall on my post about Cuba and the realizations it delivered to me. The reason/excuse I haven’t yet posted about Cuba is that...