User:Drork

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he משתמש זה דובר עברית כשפת אם.
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fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.
es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
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yi-1 דער באַניצער האָט תּוך־ידיעה פֿון ייִדיש.
eo-1 Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per baza nivelo de Esperanto
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[edit] Wikimania 2006 blog

[edit] Some details about me

My name is Dror, I'm 33 years old (at the moment). I live in the Tel Aviv area in Israel.

I studied the Arabic language and Arab and Islamic culture in the Jewish-Arab institute of Givat Haviva (near Hadera, Israel). I have completed my first degree (BA) in General Linguistics at the Tel Aviv University. I used to work as a translator, but now I work in a high-tech company in Tel Aviv, as an NLP linguist.

I speak Hebrew as my mother tongue, Arabic (MSA and some Palestinian, but not Egyptian), English and some French as foreign languages. I can also read some Persian in a basic level, as well as Yiddish and Esperanto in a similar level.

Other subjects that interest me are Translation Studies, Psychology, Anthropology and History.

Two books I'd like to mention as a major influence are The Body in Question by Jonathan Miller, which deals with the history of medicine and philosophy of science, and Gulliver's Travel by the great English-Irish author Jonathan Swift. His criticism of science and modern society may seem anachronistic 300 years after the book's publication, but actually it is as relevant as ever.

[edit] Articles to which I contributed significantly

[edit] English Wikipedia

[edit] Hebrew Wikipedia

[edit] Arabic Wikipedia