Tell the World : Storytelling Across Language

Working with or without a native speaker, a storyteller can touch the minds and hearts of all listeners-even those with little or no English language skills. Here a group of expert storytellers share a variety of tips and techniques that help bridge the language gap; along with sample stories that librarians, teachers, and professional storytellers can easily incorporate into their repertoires. Four basic techniques for bilingual telling are explored: summarizing, line-by-line translation, tandem telling, and inserted phrases. In addition, contributors discuss such topics as the translator's role, using story in language instruction, presenting tellers of other languages, traveling and giving workshops abroad, and more.

Introduction	p. xi
Telling Through Translation	p. 1
Line-By-Line Translation	p. 5
Tandem Telling	p. 9
Sample story: Grandfather Bear Is Hungry	p. 10
Sample story: Little Boy Frog and Little Boy Snake	p. 14
More Than Words: Storytelling Without Translation	p. 19
Sample story: Two Rival Snakes-Hebi no Kuiai	p. 25
One Teller, One Story, Two Languages	p. 29
Two Tales at Once	p. 30
A Choreographed Language Mix	p. 32
Telling a Tale Bilingually	p. 33
Somos el Barco-We Are the Boat	p. 36
When Some Speak Welsh and All Speak English	p. 38
German/English Telling in Hong Kong	p. 39
On the Translator's Role	p. 41
The Backside of the Tapestry	p. 42
Problems and Pleasures of Story Translation	p. 44
Translating an English Speaker into Japanese	p. 50
The Art of Translating	p. 51
Performing in a Second Language	p. 55
Performing the Japanese Tale in English	p. 55
Telling in a Second Language	p. 58
A Swedish-Speaking Finn	p. 62
Putting Stories into French for Audiences in Belgium	p. 64
Story in Language Instruction	p. 67
Mabela the Clever in Hong Kong	p. 67
Mother Goose and Repeated Language	p. 72
First Language Telling with Middle School ESL Students	p. 72
Storytelling in Language Camp	p. 73
In Every Language There Are Stories to Be Told: Multilingual Storytelling in Bremen	p. 74
Presenting Tellers of Other Languages	p. 79
Nurturing Tellers with Halting English Skills	p. 79
Listening in Another Language	p. 81
A Student's Response to Fujita-san	p. 81
An Italian Performs for a Castellano-Speaking Audience	p. 83
Listening to Cristina Taqeulim's Portuguese Telling	p. 83
Lost and Found in Translation: The Story Tells It All	p. 84
Presenting Ana Garcia Castellano in New York City	p. 87
Cross-Language Telling in Europe	p. 87
Tips for Organizing Storytelling Through Translation	p. 90
World Language Story Time at the King County Library System	p. 92
The Babel Bypass	p. 94
Presenting Workshops Abroad	p. 99
Translation into a Signed Language	p. 107
Telling with Sign Language Translation	p. 107
How Do You Sign Scallywag? An Interpreter at Work	p. 112
Cultural Considerations	p. 117
How Cultures Affect the Tellings	p. 117
Telling in Other Languages: Problems and Solutions	p. 119
Translating Mishaps	p. 123
The Road to Reaching a Multilingual Audience	p. 126
A Language of No Words	p. 131
Tellers Travel	p. 137
Not Just a Matter of Language	p. 137
Traveling with Simple Tales: Tips for Crossing Language Barriers	p. 140
Sample story: Hello! My Name is Ruth!	p. 140
Sample story: Do Not Touch Baby	p. 141
Sarap! Sarap! Yummy Tales with a Twist of Tagalog	p. 142
Growling Across Language A Success	p. 144
Making Friends Through Telling...Even Across Language Barriers	p. 144
Let the Stories Come	p. 146
Found in Translation	p. 148
On the Translator's Art	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 159
Bilingual Folktales	p. 159
English Folktales Translated into Other Languages	p. 161
Index	p. 165
About the Editor and the Contributors	p. 175
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