by itltranslations | Apr 17, 2019 | Languages, Translation
How do you tell a good translator from a bad one? It’s actually pretty simple when you know what to look for! To help you out, here are a list of things that a bad translator might say, compared to what a good translator might say: Native Languages Bad:...
by itltranslations | Apr 10, 2019 | Business, International Markets, Languages
Compared to other nations, Britain is among the worst language learners. According to a survey by The European Commission, 62% of British people surveyed could not speak any other language apart from English. Only 38% of Britons speak one foreign language, only 18%...
by Libby Mimnagh | Apr 3, 2019 | Business, International Markets, Translation
Translation services can be of real use to businesses for a number of reasons. We wanted to go into just a couple of these below! Translation services can help you: Reach a wider audience It’s the aim of every business to increase sales. Therefore it is of...
by Libby Mimnagh | Mar 27, 2019 | Languages, words
We use all kinds of odd phrases, expressions, and sayings every day, without stopping to think of where they might come from. A lot of our well-loved phrases actually have quite sinister origins, so we’ve gathered a few below that you might not have known! ...
by Libby Mimnagh | Mar 20, 2019 | Languages, linguistics
Most humans use an immense amount of language every day without ever stopping to think about the words and phrases they say, with studies finding that the average person speaks about 16,000 words a day! We all use different linguistic devices in our speech and most of...
by Libby Mimnagh | Mar 13, 2019 | Languages, linguistics
In this week’s blog, we wanted to discuss a strange little oddity of the English language- Janus words. This term refers to words which have opposite or contradictory meanings depending on the context in which they are used. (The term Janus refers to the Roman God...
by itltranslations | Mar 6, 2019 | Indigenous Languages, Languages
Wikitongues is a non-profit organisation founded in 2014 by three friends from Brooklyn, New York. The organisiation started with the ambitious goal of documenting, in one way or another, every language in the world. They hope that this will provide the tools and...
by Libby Mimnagh | Feb 27, 2019 | Languages, linguistics
Words are incredibly complex things. Whether it’s words that have the same spelling but different meanings (homonym) or the same word which has two completely opposite meanings (contranym), the English Language can be an incredibly confusing thing. It is...
by Libby Mimnagh | Feb 20, 2019 | Culture, Indigenous Languages, Languages
As part of our celebrations of The International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL2019), we will be shining the spotlight on different indigenous languages from around the world throughout the coming year. In today’s blog we will be discussing the language of the...
by Libby Mimnagh | Feb 13, 2019 | Culture, Traditions
Different countries and cultures have extremely diverse and varied stories and traditions regarding how human language came to be. Language myths often serve to offer an explanation for concepts such as the origin of language, the development of language and the...
by Libby Mimnagh | Feb 6, 2019 | Google Translate, Languages
You may remember last year we posted a blog entitled “Does Google Translate have a Sexism Problem?“, in which we discussed the finding that Google Translate was injecting gendered stereotypes into English translations when the original text had no such...
by Libby Mimnagh | Jan 30, 2019 | Culture, Languages, linguistics, Traditions
Avoidance speech is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a restricted speech style must be used in the presence of, or in reference to, certain relatives. Avoidance language is found in many Australian aboriginal languages, Austronesian languages as well as...
