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Last week, I came across a perfect Mother’s Day gift in the form of Mazal Bueno! a new board book by Sarah Aroeste sprinkled with Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language of Sephardic Jews.
Here is a riddle in French:
- Je parle toutes les langues et j'ai tout le temps la tête à l'envers. Qui suis-je?
- I speak all languages, and I always have my head upside down. Who am I?
新冠病毒大流行改變了人們的生活方式，但並沒有終止我們閱讀的習慣。 在2020年即將結束之際，我們列出中文館員的推薦和高人氣的作品，供您參考。只要登入您的圖書館帳戶，在缐上目錄預訂資料，選擇鄰近的圖書館室外取書服務地點（Library To Go) ，並耐心等候我們的通知，到館領取預訂的資料後就可以開始享受閱讀！
Los Angeles has been a multi-cultural, polyglot city from the earliest times. In 1781, the pobladores, a small group of racially diverse farmers from Sonora, Mexico, arrived near the banks of the Porciuncula River at a place that would later become Los Angeles.
What is one takeaway one? Can the answer be expressed in Roman numerals? As a number, the concept of zero has come to us by way of Arabic, all the way from India. In India, the preferred official language is Hindi (हिन्दी), which belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
Picture a book that can gracefully endure the trials of the centuries—the water, the fire, the sword. What will this book be about? In what language will it be? There is an old legend about an artist-scribe who was being burned along with a precious manuscript.
When in the second half of the last century Isaac Bashevich Singer was awarded a Noble Prize for Literature, he raised an interesting question: “People ask me often, ‘Why do you write in a dying language?’” And he tried to explain: “There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life… e
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