Entries Tagged as 'subtitles'

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Football Tourney Delays Doc’s Wrap Party

Nutan and Amy hard at work on the subtitles. Did I mention it was hard work?
So, in parts of the world that aren’t North America, they have this game called soccer. Actually they call it football, but when you’re an American and not talking about the NFL kind, you always need to say that first [...]

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Buckling Down, yo.

Whoo, wee. I am tired. We’ve basically got all our shooting done, and all the key material is logged and backed up. Transcriber is working on the last couple files, and we have been feverishly evolving an editing and subtitling protocol.
As far as we can tell, it’s working. We’re staring down several long days of hard, hard [...]

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Language Arts

Most of the formal education in Nepal takes place in English–this is true (we understand) whether students are in government schools or private schools. Nepali language study is the lone exception.
The Little Sisters Fund girls are all products of this system, and for the most part, the older ones particularly can communicate reasonably well in English. [...]