We have to pay special attention when translating languages that are written from right to left, as what is a “no-brainer” for native speakers may not be for readers of an alphabet in the opposite direction. Within this group of readers we can also include clients, who often ask for our advice on some issues […]
If you live or visit Miami, you will soon learn that knowing how to speak Spanish is a must in this city. There are instances at the bank or the grocery store where Spanish is the spoken language over English. Those non-Spanish speakers may all of a sudden have the urge to learn Spanish and […]
The emerging apps market both for Android as well as iOS continues to grow and it’s difficult to know when it’ll reach its ceiling, or if it ever will. If there’s one thing we can learn from the statistics on downloads, it’s that there is enough demand to satisfy a constantly renewed supply. Trusted Translations […]
Every country has different accents for different regions within their country. In the U.S. there are many identifiable accents like the New York accent (Noo-Yawk). It has distinct features, for example the dropping of the R. Another example is the southern accent. It stretches across the southern states and is distinctive for its draw. The […]
Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the world based on its number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese. It can therefore be very useful to know, given that it is widely used in international communications, media in general, and on the Internet. For this reason, more and more people who want to learn a […]
As more and more options are provided to us in our attempts to learn languages, it seems that with each option new obstacles arise; thus making it more complicated for someone who may wish to learn languages on their own time. As I wished to learn Spanish, I thought I would turn to watching movies […]
Do You Tweet? We Localize It. Social Media has not only changed the way we behave and interact, but it has created its own terminology for its users. Take Twitter as an example. Twitter is a social media service that limits each user’s post to 140 characters. Twitter also has been the main player behind […]
Canada is the second largest country in the world. So depending on which part of Canada you’re visiting, you may encounter different accents, slang, and vocabulary. Furthermore, there are 2 official languages, English and French, but for this post I would like to focus on Canadian English. Canadian English is an interesting blend of British […]
I remember as a kid, growing up in the U.S., always trying to communicate with my friends in secret. One method we used was writing our notes in invisible ink. Also, we thought it was clever to write our notes with the letters backwards but we ended up just holding up the page to the […]
When Turkey first became a democratically recognized sovereign country in the 1920s, it made some major changes that greatly affected the life and the culture of its citizens. In 1928, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey decreed that the language of Turkish would be Romanized, adapting a version of the Latin alphabet […]