Category Archives: translation
How do you spell Portuguese?
How do you spell Portuguese? In English, many people forget to put in that second ‘u’, but Portuguese speakers across the world, whether in Portugal, Brazil, Angola or Macau, are likely to spell it correctly: português. One reason it’s easy to get correct is because Portuguese spelling, unlike English, is largely phonetic. But what happens [...]
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Translation: to Bengali or not to Bengali?
Our production manager Sanjoy Roy highlights a common confusion about Bengali usage The Bengali language is the language of Bengal, right? Well, not wrong – but it’s not as simple as that. In the UK there’s quite a lot of confusion about what Bengali is, so I’ll try to clarify that here. First, let me [...]
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Translation Helps Business Survive Recession: new article
The last year has been a hard one economically for businesses throughout the English-speaking world. Translation provides part of a business solution to riding out the recession and emerging with a competitive advantage, I argue in a new article on Buzzle.com. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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European Day of Languages 2009
Tomorrow sees the annual European Day of Languages. Initiated by the Council of Europe in 2001, this day sees various celebrations of language, diveristy and foreign language learning across Europe every 26 September. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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Assembling a Welsh Translation Row
The use and equality of the Welsh language have long inspired passions, and a long-running campaign seems to have reversed its decline. Today, in an apparent partial victory for bilingualism and the equal use of the Welsh language in Wales, the Assembly Commission has backed off plans to scrap the translation of debates from English [...]
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War of the World’s Machine Translation
Google’s recent spate of strange logos on their search pages have now been revealed as a homage to author H. G. Wells, whose birthday it is today. All credit to them for highlighting such an interesting author who was often ahead of his time. Google has been engaged in a more down to Earth battle [...]
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An “International Translation Day 2009″ greeting card for you
update: 2010 International Translation day card now available here September has rolled around all too quickly, and our summer’s coming to an end … even though in London yesterday we had that British rarity of a sunny and hot Bank Holiday Monday afternoon! Regular readers of this blog will know that September is also the [...]
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Sign that puts Italian translation off the rails!
Here’s a little something to put a smile on your face for a Monday morning. One of WorldAccent’s studio team recently returned from holiday, having swapped Italian typesetting for the Italian countryside. As well as bringing back some delicious cake, he took a snap of this amusing sign from the door of his train compartment: [...]
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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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