The Wizarding World of Harry Potter through the Magic of Muggle Languages!

month March 2023

Sherbet lemon revisited (Reader Mail)

A reader wrote in about Dumbledore’s favorite sweet turning into a drink. How does he “unstick” two lemonades? Also: how are “sherbet balls” translated?

[PB Bite] Low-resource languages: what they are and why they matter

Low-resource languages present a problem for translation and for education. But translation literature of world-building works like Harry Potter can help!

Diglossia and literacy: Arabic as example

Some communities around the world use two languages for different situations. So what happens when only one of those languages is used for reading and writing?

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