Understanding a foreign language is getting easier with the range of translation apps for your smartphone and computer. Read these 10 things you need to know about translation technology! Fumbling for words in a foreign language? We have the answer with these 10 things you need to know about translation technology. 1 Google is…
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In English grammar there are 8 parts of speech.The 8 parts of speech are: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, adverbs and verbs. What does each of the parts of speech do? 8 parts of speech Function or what it does (job) Verb action or state Noun are a thing or person Adjective describes a…
4 reasons you should hire a translation agency This is the age of empowered users. From publishing to music, from accommodations to rental cars, the Internet has made it possible to cut out the middle men and give rise to a new so-called “sharing economy” where companies like Uber, Fiverr, AirBnB and Amazon’s Kindle Direct…
At Vidcon, the premiere convention for online content curators, YouTube pulled all the stops. CEO Susan Wojcicki enticed listeners with a slew of new features rolling out for YouTube in the coming months, namely efforts to translate video subtitles. Crowd-Sourced Efforts to Translate Video Subtitles At her first Vidcon since becoming the CEO of YouTube…
The global market for outsourced language services and technology will surpass US$37.19 billion in 2014, according to a study by independent market research firm Common Sense Advisory. In its 10th annual global industry research report,” Language Services Market: 2014 ,” the firm details the findings of its comprehensive study. Outsourced language services to skyrocket in…
First there was a brouhaha about the Oxford comma, prompted by a post at FiveThirtyEight in which I was quoted. Then screams of outrage about the English grammar on Twitter followed an article by Roy Peter Clark defending the use of the passive voice. Outrage about the English grammar? I appreciate editors who have undertaken…
At long last, Ulysses translated and published in Russian Exactly a quarter-century ago, in the twilight of the Soviet Union, a literary development took place that only a few years earlier would have been utterly unthinkable with James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece: Ulysses translated and published in Russian. The man who dared to take on Joyce,…
Mais quel est le meilleur logiciel de traduction au juste? Chaque mois, il publie une chronique 2.0 sur le site de l’ESCP (Ecole supérieure de commerce de Paris). En français et en anglais. Mais malgré une bonne pratique de la langue de Bill Gates, Cyril Bladier confesse sans problème le recours à un logiciel de…
The advancements in tools for translators have made it possible for people of different languages, traditions and customs to come into contact. As was expected, translators and interpreters quickly became essential for society, because they are the only ones who can make conversations between foreign individuals possible. Every translator in the twenty-first century will tell…
The English language is, quite literally, the greatest language in the world. Great in terms of size – the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains 615,000 entries. Great in terms of scope — it’s an official language in seventy-nine countries and territories. And great in terms of, well, greatness — it’s just one…
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