ผู้เขียน: Katharine Shipton

About the Compiler Liban Ahmad has taught Somali as a second language and worked as an item writer, translator, editor and proof-reader with the Asset Languages assessment scheme for the Languages Ladder developed by OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA examinations). He has participated in different projects on the development of Somali breakthrough, preliminary and intermediate master tasks in four language skills. He has contributed summary research on Somali public service translations to The Linguist, the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. Liban holds a Diploma in Sociology (Open University) and a Certificate in Social Science (Open University); and a Certificate of Advancement for Mentoring Primary School Pupils (validated by Liverpool University). About the Editor Katharine Shipton is a freelance editor specialising in the development of learning materials in Cushitic and Semitic languages. In addition to English, her mother tongue, she has a working knowledge of Arabic, French, German, Kurdish, Turkish and Somali. She holds an MA in Arabic (Edinburgh University) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Arabic Translation (University of Westminster).