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When I retired I pondered how I wanted to spend my remaining years. I am an artist and a writer so there is always plenty to do, but I felt I needed to stimulate my brain in another way and I had heard that learning a new language was just the ticket. After considering a number of options I decided to learn Esperanto. Esperanto is a created language using the roots of words from many languages and many affixes which makes it much easier to learn than a national language like English or Russian. After a number of years of study I did learn it well enough to correspond and converse. I decided that I would like to try my hand at translating. With the necessary help of my mentor William O’Ryan I dipped my toe into the translation ocean and completed my first item. Over the years I continued and have to date translated twenty one stories, poems and songs which can be seen on my website below. You can also see William O’Ryan’s Esperanto grammar book in progress. It contains about 250 pages so far. Here is a list, in English, of the available translations: Araby by James Joyce This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams Eveline by James Joyce The Open Door by Saki Haiku by Jack Wilson Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Sing a Song of Sixpence - Anonymous The Plot Against the Giant by Wallace Stevens Mary Had a Little Lamb - Anonymous The Mouse by Saki Fog by Carl Sandburg Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Jerome Kern P is for Peas by MFK Fisher Pardon Me O God by Robert Frost Turn Right by Jack Wilson About Moore’s Visit to the Circus by Elizabeth Bishop Sumer is a cumin in - Anonymous The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams The Witness by Jorge Luis Borges You Will Know that I Love You by Teddy Fregoso Girl from Ipanema by Antonio Carlos Jobim et al Thes translations from English into Esperanto can all be seen at the website below. There you will also find a link to William O’Ryan’s Esperanto Grammar.
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Jack Wilson is a writer, artist and translator in Tempe,AZ
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