Bokpil – Page 2 – Easy to Read & Languages

Reading with the eyes – and ears?

07/01/202207/01/2022 Bokpil

Teachers and experts recommend audio books especially for people who are not used to reading.
But does listening with the ears develop the brain as much as reading with the eyes?

What is Easy Language and Easy to Read?

07/01/202207/01/2022 Bokpil

How should Easy Language and Easy to Read be defined? Is Easy Language a constructed or a natural language? Are the language and the contents in Easy to Read books poorer than in books in standard language?

Easy to Read for learning English

07/01/202207/01/2022 Bokpil

Easy to Read books contribute to the learning of languages. An example from Bulgaria shows that reading a book in English and working with tasks from the website Edu Bokpil can increase interest in the language.

Haiku videos in many languages

11/11/202111/11/2021 Bokpil

Multilingual videos with haiku poems by Fazile Nasretdin and Sabira Stahlberg have recently been publiced on the YouTube channels Bokpil Multilingual and Bokpil Flerspråkig.

Bokpil at Helsinki Book Fair 2021

21/10/202121/10/2021 Bokpil

Bokpil participates this year in the Helsinki Book Fair with two Swedish-language programmes.

Easy to Read and multilingualism at AKECH and ALECLA

21/10/202121/10/2021 Bokpil

Two international events in October 2021 host panels presenting Easy to Read and multilingualism.

Haiku poems: Eight dahlias

04/10/202104/10/2021 Bokpil

Haiku in three languages: garden, tree, home and season, cat and smile.
Marianne Ståhlberg’s new book Åtta dahlior – Eight dahlias – Kahdeksan daaliaa talks about life and nature in Swedish, English and Finnish.

Sabira Stahlberg: 20 years with Easy to Read

17/09/202117/09/2021 Bokpil

This year it is 20 years since Sabira Stahlberg’s first Easy to Read book was published. Since then Sabira has written more than 20 Easy to Read books.

Easy to Read books in Journal of Endangered Languages

05/08/202105/08/2021 Bokpil

Easy to Read books for supporting minority and endangered languages are discussed by Sabira Stahlberg and Fazile Nasretdin in a special issue of Journal of Endangered Languages.