Thursday, March 09, 2006

Foreword...forward!

Filipino is a language I learned to love in college. I stumbled into it during my Philippine Collegian days, and enrolled in a few Filipino courses in UP (including one on translation) for good measure. Getting exposed to great Filipino translations of poems I previously encountered in English deepened my ardor. Soon, I was dabbling in poem translations myself.

I'm starting this blog for several reasons:

[1] to send my clumsy attempts at translation out into the world;

[2] to share far better translations by far better translators with other struggling translators out there;

[3] to motivate me to keep translating and keep honing my facility in Filipino; and

[4] because everyone needs something other than work to keep them sane!

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