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SIRAP Club Evening 21/3/2006 Guatemala

Coming soon - our next Club Evening, so come along and bring your friends and/or colleagues who may be interested in what we do.

Title: "Development work in the sphere of the Mayan culture"

Speaker: Lise-Lotte Norén.

Lise-Lotte says "Guatemala is a country torn apart by a 36 years old civil war, which was ended through a peace process and the signing of a peace agreement in 1996. Indigenous people were the most affected by the war and are still fighting to get into the divided society in the country. I will talk about the project ”Peace Promotors”, a UNDP project taking place in the highlands of Guatemala, aiming at improving democracy and local governing in the highlands. The project took place in the sphere of the Mayan culture and I will try to depict how it is to do development work with a Swedish touch, since the project was to a certain extent a Swedish design, and at the same time coping with the values of totally different culture."

21/02 Upcoming SIRAP Club Evening: Travel Tales

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24/1 Sirap Club Evening:"Computer Tools for/while Learning Swedish"

At the SIRAP club evening on January 24th Martin Volk gave a talk on "Computer Tools for/while Learning Swedish" to an audience of more than 50 participants.

[The speaker: Martin Volk has been Professor of Computational Linguistics ( http://www.ling.su.se/DaLi ) at Stockholm University since 2003. He is from Germany and has experienced the difficulties of learning Swedish first hand. Martin Volk is a member of the SIRAP board.]

As international researchers in Stockholm we are often confronted with emails in Swedish or with other Swedish documents that we need to read and understand. Even if our language skills allow us to read a Swedish newspaper, we frequently encounter Swedish words or expressions that we don't know.
In his presentation Martin Volk introduced and demonstrated computer tools that help a non-native speaker of Swedish. He explained how to make good use of Microsoft Word's multilingual features (as e.g. the thesaurus or the translate facility). He demonstrated the multilingual lexicon system Babylon (http://www.babylon.com) which allows the user to enlarge the lexicon with own entries. He showed how to facilitate access to KTH's Lexin dictionary ( http://www-lexikon.nada.kth.se/skolverket/sve-eng.shtml ) from an Email system and a Web browser (e.g. via the DictionarySearch extension in the Firefox browser). He discussed the use of the advanced writing tool Grim ( http://skrutten.nada.kth.se/grim/index-en.html ) and of the Systran Machine Translation system ( http://www.systransoft.com/index.html ).
One of the participants mentioned that he found the electronic Norstedts dictionary Swedish - English ( http://www.panorstedt.se/templates/norstedts/StartPage.aspx?id=28717 ) particularly helpful and more comprehensive than Lexin. Another suggestion was the lexicon pen Quicktionary ( http://www.quicktionary.se ).

30/11 Studying Stockholm lecture

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17/11 SIRAP Club Evening.The Academic Folk Dance Group

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