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...Blog Talk with the Founders of the Indian Bloggers and New Media Association
“Look at them. We’re trying to save the world and they’re still arguing about technology.” It’s the kind of statement you hear routinely at wi-fi enabled hipster coffee houses in San Francisco and Brooklyn, but here we are in New Delhi,...
My Posts in French, Italian, Spanish, Bangla, Macedonian, and Chinese
These days I don’t write much on either Global Voices or Rising Voices. Much of that is left to my colleagues Rezwan and Juhie, along with all the amazing coordinators of the Rising Voices projects. But, thanks to the work of the volunteer translates at Global...![[How To] Learn a Foreign Language for Free](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/picture-1.png?resize=368%2C318)
[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...Latest Photos
