Category Archives: Chinese
Chinese Translation a shoe in for Chinese tourists?
An unusual tourist destination for Chinese tourists in the UK is revealed by the Metro today. The Clarks shoe museum, in the small Somerset village of Street, is hoping for coaches full of tour groups. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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Glimpsing the heart of London
Pic: © Bob Collins, Courtesy Museum of London An exhibition of “London Street Photography” opened last week at the Museum of London. It provides a fascinating glimpse of London life throughout the last 150 years, using street photography largely from the museum’s archive that has not been widely exhibited before. • Jim Dickson is a [...]
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Picturing Chinese New Year in London
This year the Chinese New Year ran from 3 February. It is Year of the Rabbit, associated with new beginnings and good luck. We captured some of the scenes on London’s streets during the New Year celebrations last Sunday. Chinese New Year in London. This work by WorldAccent Translation is licensed under a Creative Commons [...]
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Their face doesn’t say it all!
It’s not just words that sometimes need translating across the globe. A study this month has concluded people from different cultures read facial expressions differently. Research on these cultural differences, carried out by a team largely from Glasgow University, showed that East Asian observers found it more difficult to distinguish some facial expressions. “We show [...]
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Chinese New Year fit for the credit crunch?
Yesterday saw the start of the Chinese New Year, celebrating the Year of the Ox. The festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month of the Chinese Calendar. This calendar far pre-dates the internationally used Gregorian calendar, with evidence of its use as far back as the second millennium BC. Naturally London [...]
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More into Chinese language
There is mixed news in a new report on languages in secondary schools from the National Centre for Languages (CiLT). They looked at a sample of schools across the UK in a survey they have carried out each year since 2002. First the good news. State schools in the UK are starting to offer a [...]
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Brazil, Russia, India, China: BRICs in the wall of recovery?