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How Languages Shape Our Vision of the World

In my last post, “Are We Just a Product of the Languages We Speak?,” I wrote about how the linguistic structure of a language can impact the way we think

November 19, 2014

The New Languages of the 21st Century

Can you imagine having a conversation in Elvish with the supermarket cashier in the not-so-distant future? Or going to buy cigarettes from the convenience store clerk in Klingon? For years

October 25, 2014

What Are the World’s Sexiest Accents?

A few weeks ago, CNN reported the results of an interesting survey carried out through Facebook in which users voted for what was, in their own opinion, the sexiest accent.

October 16, 2014

Translations and DTP from Right to Left

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

June 18, 2014

Ways to Learn a New Language and To Do It Quick

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

June 10, 2014

Google Play Still Doesn’t Offer Paid Apps in China

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

June 6, 2014

Do You Want to Learn Spanish?

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

April 16, 2014

Can We Learn through Subtitles?

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

March 31, 2014

Do You Tweet? We Localize It.

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

February 25, 2014

How to Speak/Write English the Canadian Way

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

February 1, 2014

What is Pig Latin?

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.

November 18, 2013

What Happened to the Letter Q in Turkish?

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

November 4, 2013

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