The language of business for many years has been English. Being academia’s and tourism’s most used language too. Mandarin is the language spoken by the largest amount of people whilst it is long been thought to be Spanish. According to Bloomberg rankings, English remains the top language for business, followed by Mandarin. Surprisingly though Arabic […]
Overseas students opt for language courses in London
London is without a doubt the heart of the UK, the epicentre of British commerce, and one of the few main business capitals of the world. Therefore, it should come as little surprise that every year thousands of students come from overseas to study in London. There are dozens of advantages to studying in London […]
Employers Affected By Lack of Language Skills
A worrying 17% of jobs can’t be filled by employers because of a lack of language skills in the UK a new survey shows. In light of these findings, All Languages, a London based languages, translation and interpreting agency has begun a drive to help job seekers acquire the relevant language expertise that is so […]
Chinese Encyclopaedia to be translated into Tibetan
The Chinese Encyclopaedia is being translated to the Tibetan version, which will be the third national minority language edition of the Encyclopedia. According to the head of the Tibetology studies institute of the University of Tibet, Cedain Zhaxi, the translation is probably to be finished in five years time. Additionally, the publication and translation of […]
Report from top translation company highlights changing trends
Report from top translation company highlights changing trends A top translation agency in London has just revealed how the changing faces of the world’s middle classes, along with series of planned sporting events has transformed its everyday activities. It has also identified a large number of trends which are currently shaping the delivery of business […]
Intellectual translates Quran into lucid English
Among the most recognised religious intellectuals is Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. He is among the leading advocates at the world level of peaceful relations among individuals of different faiths and intercommunity understanding. Additionally Maulana is the author of certain books concerning the various matters linked to Islam and he has come out with a lucid English […]
Translation brain machine celebrates 60th birthday
The translation machine also known as the 701 computer was launched sixty years ago this week by researchers at IBM and Georgetown. The machine had successfully been able to translate many sentences into English from Russian and this led to the scientists claiming confidently that translation in the coming few years would be handled fully […]
The story behind One Hour Translation
Necessity is the mother of invention and this is what led Lion Libman to come up with his own online translation service known as One Hour Translation. This service is the largest translation service in the world with it having 15,000 translators in 120 countries translating between more than 2,500 language pairs. Libman said that […]
The fascinating dialects of the UK examined in new study
A survey done by Dr Laurel Mackenzie and her linguistics students on 1400 English Speakers shows wide differences in the manner in which Northerners and Southerners describe various items or activities like trousers, bread, evening meals and footware. The manner in which northerners and southerner pronounce different words may be very different. For instance, Northerners […]
Romanian declared official language of Moldova
The Republic of Moldova’s constitutional court held that the official language is Romanian. Prior to the court decision, people in Moldova have been speaking Moldovan that has an aspect of Latin. According to the presidency in the Republic of Moldova, Romanians are found in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. They also argued that Moldovan […]