User:Drork

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he	משתמש זה דובר עברית כשפת אם.

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This user speaks English at a near-native level.

ar-3	هذا المستخدم يستطيع المساهمة بالعربية بمستوى متقدم.

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Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

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Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

fa-1	دانش فارسی این کاربر درسطح مبتدی است

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דער באַניצער האָט תּוך־ידיעה פֿון ייִדיש.

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Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per baza nivelo de Esperanto.

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My contributions to the Wikimania 2006 blog (all of them are in English)

My name is Dror, I'm 31 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.

Articles in the English Wikipedia to which I contributed significantly