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Transitional English (TE) is that phase of English acquisition which lies between no knowledge of the language and knowledge of its standard form.
We are interested in helping to spread simplified Transitional English as universal speech in one decade of the 21st century. All of this is to be done by bilingual volunteers. At present, the TE text is available freely on the Internet for speakers of Spanish (450 million, or 6.4% of the world’s population) at /www.uky.edu/Projects/Globlec/, and soon it will be ready for speakers of Chinese (1,000m-14.3%). We have plans to prepare TE also for speakers of Russian 320m-4.6%, and ultimately for speakers of fourteen other languagaes, namely: Arabic 250m-3.6%, Bahasa-Indonesia 163m-2.3%, Farsi 70m-1%, French 130m-1.9%, German 125m-1.8%, Hindustani 1,000m-14.3, Japanese 130m-1.9%, Korean 75m-1.1%, Malay 200m-2.9%, Portuguese 200m-2.9%, Punjabi 100m-1.4%, Thai 125m-1.8%, Turkish 160m-2.3%, Vietnamese 75m-1.1% = The result being that the Total projected population for English exposure (1,000m-14.3%, English speakers also included in Total) and eventual usage could be: 5,573 million—or 79.9% of the global population.
Volunteer translators of the simplified TE text (and particularly emeriti faculty) are sought from the MLA multilingual membership to help bring the Earth’s peoples together for everyone’s benefit. Those interested in translating the TE text for a specific language group, named above, may contact us by email: lihani.prof@prodigy.net. –Thank you.