Dogs have interacted with humans for thousands of years and in that time, people have learned that dogs have a special way of communicating with them that are unique to dogs. In recent years, there are an increasing number of studies examining the way dogs...
If you’re looking to develop a mobile application for tablets and phones, and your intention is to go beyond your home market, you need to have a translation strategy in place very early on. Remember that 72% of potential users will not be native English speakers. Most software...
There are always obstacles when translating from one language to another and this happens most times with idiomatic expressions and slang. These pose problems occurs because they do not mean what the individual words mean literally, and these idioms often involve cultural history that a...
Emojis are the universal language of social networks. Will brands get right what their customers are saying? It does not matter if we want to admit it or not, emoticons have become part of our daily conversations. For a regular user of any digital communication channel...
Barack Hussein Obama II, better known as Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States. Today we will talk about him because the meaning of his name has caused much commotion during his years in the White House. We have researched a little bit about...
Humans are thought to speak more than 7,000 languages across the globe. Asia has the most of them, 2,301, followed by Africa with 2,138. There are 1,313 tongues spoken in the Pacific region, followed by 1,064 in the Americas. Europe has 286 different languages. According to...
In these days if you speak one language, you’re an average functioning human being. Some people push themselves and study to learn two and even three languages. But some others go above and beyond being bilingual or even trilingual and become hyper-polyglots. In terms of living...
As professionals and individuals we have to recognise that the digital world is part of our daily lives. From taking notes at a conference with our tablet, to answer text messages and emails from our customers from our cellphones, or even look for the meaning...
Are you going to get started as a translator and you are afraid of making translation mistakes? You should know that translating is a creative action, a painstaking operation, which requires a sharp ear and a feeling for language. As a translator, you must possess...
Everyone has ever done something illegal in life. Although they have a minimum degree of punishment and are forgiven naturally. Sometimes we deny having committed any of these actions which make us guilty. Most of these actions are penalized in the United States, but some...
