Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to our December 2011 issue of The Language News.

This month's issue features an article about the art of translating poetry, some interesting facts about the Welsh language, humorous mistranslations of bilingual signs, our article on the Russian Silicon Valley, and more.   

We would also like to take this opportunity to wish all of you a very happy holiday season.   

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Enjoy!   

Can you say hello in Welsh? Helô, Hylô, or Shwmae

Did you know that Welsh is spoken fluently by over half a million people in Wales - that's over 20% of the total population?  

Cymraeg, the Welsh name for the language, is a Celtic language which is closely related to Cornish and Breton. But did you know that Welsh is one of Europe's oldest living languages and that the Welsh spoken today is directly descended from the language of the Sixth Century?

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This is what can happen if you absolutely don't understand a different alphabet, and your online machine translation service is currently down.  

But I'm sure many readers who are not familiar with Chinese also would not have the slightest idea what the Chinese characters on this sign mean.

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