Dear Friends of Languages

Our www.sorosoro.org website has been expanding and featuring new contents every day for more than a year now… Available in 3 languages (English, French and Spanish) as it is, you are more and more numerous to consult it. Every week we are pleasantly surprised to find out that emails sent to us really do come from every nook and cranny of the planet, and that many suggested translations for the word of the fortnight are in languages we don’t even know the names of…

We have polled you late in the year to know the frequency with which you wish to receive this newsletter, and many of you answered. As the results show, most readers are satisfied with a weekly basis, while some would prefer to receive these informations every fortnight or month. We’ll try to meet everyone’s expectations.

And for now, I invite you to discover the latest updates on our website:

Blog

After our series on mother-tongue education last fall, we begin the year 2011 with a new theme: multilingualism. This week’s article has some surprises in store about the beneficial effects of its practice…

Read the blog

Video

After stopping off in Guatemala before the holidays, we are now back in Senegal, Casamance, to learn what the body parts are called in Baynunk.

Watch the video

News

A bilingual literacy programme in indigenous languages and in Spanish has been successfully implemented in the Peruvian Amazon. A journalist of Le Monde devoted an article to it on Dec. 30, still available online.
Read the article

Kurdish people in Turkey who argued for an official recognition of their language have every reason to be disappointed. As relayed by Canadian editions of newspaper Metro on December 30, Turkish President Abdullah Gul ruled out the use of Kurdish in official business.
Read the article

Agenda

January 10, 2011: Samson & Delilah, Warwick Thornton’s film about the plight of Australian Aborigines, was screened at EHESS, Paris.
Read the article

If you are willing to contribute to our programme, please do feel free to do so!

You may translate the new word of the fortnight: “war”

You may complete a fact sheet on a language you know, by contacting Antoine : antoine.launey@sorosoro.org

Contributions to the blog are also welcome! Contact Laurie : laurie.lefevre@sorosoro.org

And for anything else, if you have something to say, an opinion to give, a subject to rant and rave about, please send us your feedback and comments at: rozenn.milin@sorosoro.org

Also don’t forget our official page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Sorosoro-Page-officielle/168141289961?ref=ts

Wishing you a Happy New Year 2011

Rozenn and the whole Sorosoro team
Rozenn.milin@sorosoro.org

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