{"id":6,"date":"2012-01-01T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-01-01T07:43:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T07:43:31","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Dear reader…"},"content":{"rendered":"

To my surprise, in my summer years, I find language and words filling my life.\u00a0 On any day, I spend hours dealing with language.\u00a0 This weekend, for example, the last day of 2011 and the first day of 2012, I have helped an eight-year-old learn to read;\u00a0 I have read chapters and chapters, on a recommendation, of Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage<\/em> (it’s my third go at this book);\u00a0 translated part of a 19th-century French novel into English;\u00a0 written six postcards telling foreigners of the wonders of Australia;\u00a0 written a calligraphic quotation for a German penfriend;\u00a0 listened to my neighbours, government housing tenants, swearing twenty to the dozen as it pleases them on this New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n

I recently (last month) graduated with a Master of Translation Studies, and now I’m in search of things to translate.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s the interesting 19th-century novel, the one I worked on today, and there’s a French book on teaching three-year-olds to read which I use when I’m tutoring and which would be just as valuable to others, if they could read it.\u00a0\u00a0 And there’s my older thesis about French villagers who sheltered refugees in the 1940s, the one I wrote in French and would like, before my winter years, to translate into English.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’ve found this blogging way to share my father’s photos, and later his poetry, as a background for my interests, though the connections will at first appear vague to a reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To my surprise, in my summer years, I find language and words filling my life.\u00a0 On any day, I spend hours dealing with language.\u00a0 This weekend, for example, the last day of 2011 and the first day of 2012, I have helped an eight-year-old learn to read;\u00a0 I have read chapters and chapters, on a … <\/p>\n

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