On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@gmail.com wrote:
"Getting empowered" is not equal to "learning English".
The two are not equal, to be sure. But, at the risk of sounding pugilistic, I will say that there probably is a positive correlation between knowing a more "popular" language and knowledge empowerment.
Even if this is true, the foundation is more interested in getting people involved (which means targeting native languages) then in trying to "convert" people to more popular (and possibly more empowering) languages. To do the second task we would still want to create projects in small languages so we could write learning resources to teach people the big languages.
--Andrew Whitworth