WIWpodcast89.mp3
Translators are proving their worth twice in this week's podcast: in New York, where they're helping elderly Russian speakers fill out their census forms; and in Louisiana and Mississippi where they're interpreting for Vietnamese-American fishermen whose livelihoods are threatened by the big oil spill. Also, which do you think tastes better: Silverfin, Kentucky tuna or Asian carp? They are one and the same fish. And finally, a conversation about counting: some languages are more numerate than others.<img id="pri-insights" src=" http://api.pri.org/insights/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pri.org%2Fstories%2F... />
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