A global product or service needs to present itself well to a variety of audiences around the world, and the way it achieves that presentation is through its content. If the content on your company’s website is available in only one language, it’s safe to say your...
The short answer is yes! The study of foreign languages is extremely beneficial for everyone. Sure, there are the obvious benefits of connectivity and preservation of language, but there’s more. Learning another language is linked to cognitive acceleration and...
The English language owes its centuries of global dominance to the fact that it is the principal spoken language, if not always the official one, of some of the world’s most powerful nations—namely the US and the UK. English is a major lingua franca for the...
While English is a strong influence across areas like politics, finance, trade and commerce, and entertainment, it’s no longer the world’s most widely spoken language. Chinese, Arabic, French and Spanish share the stage with English as languages that the...
It’s amazing to watch a machine translation tool such as Google Translate create a sentence in an instant. It’s funny when the translation is nonsense. But bad MT (machine translation) can never be amusing when translation counts. So, is the solution to...
