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The Language of Food – translating recipes
Within a globalised world, International Cuisine has become more and more popular. On the high street of every major western city you can now find restaurants fromMongolia,Ethiopia,Vietnam,...
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What are the top 10 languages reaching 82% of the world population?
As a result of the globalisation of language, the leading ten languages in the world today reach an impressive 82 % of the world’s population. English has famously been labelled the first ‘global...
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Becoming the world’s local website
Accessibility is a fundamental part of any website, and maximising it is key if you wish to maximise your traffic. Regardless of whether you are offering a service, product, or merely discussing your...
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Why are more companies translating their websites? Should I also translate mine?
According to ‘Internet World Stats’ as of 2011 32.7% of the world’s population were internet users; a figure representing a 528.1% increase over a ten year period. We live in what many people are...
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Why You Should Use a Professional Service for Website Translations
If you have ever used a quick website translations service like Google translate while browsing a foreign language webpage before, then you know that the results are often iffy at best. The same is...
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Only 10% of current languages will survive to see the next century
Globalisation simply is the integration of the people of the world; the coming together of thoughts, ideas, cultures, businesses, friendships, trade, and language. The world is virtually shrinking....
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Language and the European Union – multi-lingual integration
The European Union has seen the virtual dismantling of national borders in the 27 official member states, and has catalysed physical, economic, political, and cultural integration. Possibly the...
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A Sign of the Times – modern sign language translations
Within today’s globalised world, translation services are becoming increasingly common, and most of us will have at last limited understanding of the services they provide. One area of translation,...
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The World’s Top Five Universities Failing to Translate Globally
According to the QS World University Ranking System, the list of the top five Universities of 2012 is as follows; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge University Harvard University UCL...
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The Universal Language
Esperanto – Google’s Latest Language With the impact of globalisation on language, there has been much talk recently regarding global languages. As the world virtually shrinks, dominant languages are...
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Tinee Tiny Tongues: The World’s Smallest Languages
People are always discussing the world’s most widely spoken languages, and there is much talk about the global influence of English, Chinese, and Spanish in particular, but what about the world’s...
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Translation – the art of adaptation (translating the spark of inspiration and...
Today, largely as a consequence of developments in online automated translation services, translation itself has become to be viewed simply as a service, as opposed to an art form in its own right. In...
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Menu Mistakes and Business Blunders – When Translation goes wrong
Wherever you are in the world, it is likely that you will find menu mistakes and all manner of other humorous English translation errors. It seems unfair to laugh, but in reality even the tiniest of...
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Only 10% of current languages will survive to see the next century
Globalisation simply is the integration of the people of the world; the coming together of thoughts, ideas, cultures, businesses, friendships, trade, and language. The world is virtually shrinking....
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Language and the European Union – multi-lingual integration
The European Union has seen the virtual dismantling of national borders in the 27 official member states, and has catalysed physical, economic, political, and cultural integration. Possibly the...
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Specialist Translation: The Challenge of Translating Technical Terms
There are those that consider a translator to be someone who has extensive knowledge of two or more languages. Many believe that they work merely as human dictionaries, replacing text word for word,...
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Trust and language go hand in hand – why professional translation services...
We are all aware of the increasing importance of quality in translation. With increasing competition, comes increasing importance, and thus, too, an elevated necessity to produce quality. This has...
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Professional Translation Services: Managing a wide variety of translation...
Language translation services have been around for almost as long as language itself, but with globalisation, and the resultant increased connectivity of the world, they have become even more...
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Internet English Set to Take Over
It is a commonly known fact that English is the dominant online language, and although Mandarin is following closely behind, in second place, experts seem to think that the dominance of English will...
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Word search: a study of vocabulary in the world’s leading languages
Language is primarily what connects us. Without the power of language, the world could never have developed to where it is today, and with globalisation is full flow, its influence on our world is...
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