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Foreign Film or Film in Foreign Language

This past week the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, announced the complete shortlist of nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film 2014. Sure enough, because this is the

November 2, 2013

Six Degrees of Separation

According to the theory of the six degrees of separation, proposed in 1930 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy, any person is connected to another person on the planet by

November 1, 2013

A Sonorous Atlas of the Spanish Language

To celebrate the Sixth International Conference on the Spanish Language, which took place last week in Panama, the Spanish newspaper El País had writers from the twenty Spanish-speaking countries (as

October 30, 2013

The Decline of the Mother Language?

In this new entry I’d like to explore a possible change of course regarding a linguistic phenomenon as studied as it is supported. Linguistics has established, in its various branches

October 24, 2013

What Do Gestures and Body Language Tell Us?

Both body language in general as well as its core element, gestures, represent a form of communication that is just as important as verbal language. For this reason, they must

October 23, 2013

How is a .properties File Translated?

Due to the current technological advances, the variety of files needed to be processed to translate increase as well. In the translation business, professionals must be able to work with

October 19, 2013

In this blog we always write directly from the trenches of translation. We have spoken about technical issues, linguistic issues, strange languages, outlandish requests, formats, delivery times – alas, of

October 17, 2013

The “Ibero-Americanization” of the Cervantes Institute, Heading Towards the United States

The director of the Cervantes Institute (In Spanish, Instituto Cervantes), Victor García de la Concha, announced last week that the organization is in the process of increasing collaboration with different Ibero-American

October 16, 2013

A Brief History of Techniques Applied to Translation

From the Rosetta Stone onwards, the history of techniques applied to translation elapsed smoothly until Modernity, the time in which a series of changes, as diverse as they were profound,

October 8, 2013

How Japanese Language and Tradition Work Together

Every so often we are faced with new expressions that are renewed from generation to generation. This, often due to the cultural expansion we currently experience as a result of

October 7, 2013

Is “Happy Birthday” Sung in Other Languages?

Everyone has a birthday. Most societies, across the world and across the ages, have evolved to celebrate each individual’s birthday. We even have holidays based on the birthday of important

October 7, 2013

Curiously Specific and Unusual Words

In a recent post we wrote about the longest words in world, and commented on the particular power of synthesis and specificity that the German language has which allows it

October 3, 2013

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