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 […]
New Mango Language product teaches through film
Mango Languages have just launched their latest product; Mango Premiere. This is a unique cultural and language product which teaches language through film . Mango Premiere will be available from 2700 plus academic and public libraries which currently offer Mango Languages, and also to any new subscribers to Mango. Research has shown that 2 of the […]
Learning a new language needn’t be as difficult as you think
Learning to speak a new language should be fun but those over a certain age often worry that they won’t be able to absorb neither the language nor the pronunciation correctly. The truth is that anyone can learn a new language at any age, and the old adage ‘slow and steady wins the race’ is […]
Avoiding the pitfalls of learning a new language
Whether you just want to make conversation on holiday or are looking to move to a country that has English as a second language, learning to speak in a different tongue can seem a daunting task but is ultimately very rewarding. What many Brits fail to realise, however, that just like in the UK there […]
Should Welsh be an official EU language?
The question of whether Welsh ought to be an official language of the EU is certainly debatable; there are actually 23 languages designated as ‘official’ in the European Union, but only three are in wide use across all member countries. German is most common, followed by English and French. Welsh, and five others including Scottish […]