As a fellow proponent of Social Media, I would like to share with you this interesting video on the Revolution of Social Media. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to pass it along and share it. The following video was an introduction to the Users Panel of the Content on the Multilingual Web Workshop [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Nicaraguan Spanish
Friday, April 29th, 2011Nicaragua is a Central American country with a multi-ethnic nature, due to the legacies of various cultures including the Toltec, Maya and Aztec. The official language is Spanish, although given the British colonization of the Atlantic coast, English is quite common alongside the native languages. • Chorotegas • Maribios • Nicaraos (or Náhuatl, from [...]
Puerto Rican Spanish
Thursday, April 28th, 2011The Spanish spoken in Puerto Rico shares linguistic features with other West Indian islands and the continental Caribbean, but it has its own characteristics. Undoubtedly, Puerto Rico’s history is a determining factor of the Spanish spoken there today. The influence of the indigenous language spoken in Borinquen (as Puerto Ricans call their nation) on the [...]
The Spirit behind the MultilingualWeb Pisa Event
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011In a previous post, I commented on the outstanding choice of Pisa, Italy as the setting for the most recent MultilingualWeb Workshop: MultilingualWeb and the City of Pisa One of the primary reasons was that the location gave the event a unique essence or spirit, especially in comparison with other translation and localization industry conferences. [...]
Guatemalan Spanish
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011The Republic of Guatemala is a Central American country that was the cradle of the Mayan civilization, which gives it immense cultural heritage as well as the great Spanish influence from the colonial period after the conquest. The official language in Guatemala is Spanish, although it is used as a second or third language by [...]
Panamanian Spanish
Thursday, April 21st, 2011Due to Panama’s geographic position, many diverse linguistic influences have to varying degrees combined to for what is now known as “Panamanian Spanish”. Although the official and most used language in Panama is Spanish, it coexists with 19 other languages, such as the indigenous Bugle, Ngäbere, Embera, Wounaan, Kuna, Naso Tjerdi and Bribri (recently recognized [...]
Honduran Spanish
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011Honduras has a history heavily influenced by the Mayan and Aztec cultures, as these were the people pueblos who lived there before the Spanish conquest. As in other Central American countries, there were various subgroups that were formed based on their location due to migration. The Atlantic and Caribbean coasts were settled by black people. [...]
Costa Rican Spanish
Monday, April 18th, 2011As we have been showing in the various articles about each of the Spanish-speaking countries in America, and Central America is also proud of its diverse Spanish. We insist that all Spanish speakers can understand each other, but it is noteworthy that every nation and every region can have its own characteristics. This is precisely [...]
MultilingualWeb and the City of Pisa
Friday, April 15th, 2011MultilingualWeb is a distinct conference that sets itself apart, in the same way that Pisa is a distinct city that sets itself apart. Indeed “Content on the Multilingual Web” was the second of the Workshops of the MultilingualWeb project and not a real conference. I’m used to the translation industry’s massive meetings, such as Localization [...]
Venezuelan Spanish
Friday, April 15th, 2011This variety of Caribbean Spanish, with numerous similarities to the Spanish of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, came to the land of the hallaca (or “hayaca”, which is also accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy), with origins in African and indigenous languages, at the hands of the Spanish conquerors (mostly from Andalucía and [...]
