The Faroe Islands are a minor island nation and our national language has a rather limited geographic distribution. It has therefore always been a necessary for the Faroese to master foreign languages in order to communicate with the outside world.
Linguistic skills
are a part of the culture, so to speak: for survival, for cultural development
or just to keep up with what is going on around us.
Since Posta in
the mid-seventies started to issue stamps, our information materials and
communication has been delivered in five languages: English, German, French,
Danish and Faroese. This has worked well so far, but as the increasing
globalization has opened markets in new linguistic and cultural fields, the
needs and requirements for communication have grown as well.
It is therefore
with great pride that we now are able to present ourselves in two of the
world's largest and most widespread languages – Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish.
In the future,
all our promotional materials will be available on our web side in these
languages, and direct correspondence via E-mail and traditional mail will now
be answered in Chinese and Spanish. The Spanish version of www.stamps.fo was
launched on January 17th this year and the Chinese version on March 13th.
We welcome all
Mandarin and Spanish speakers to our little branch of the world culture and
hope you will find pleasure in exploring our colourful and interesting
universe.
Svanbjørg Manai,
director
Posta Stamps
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