by Asif Afzal | Feb 28, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
Edinburgh Airport have just announced the installation of a translation device capable of translating speech into more than 70 languages. According to the Edinburgh Evening News, the airport is the first in the UK to install such a device, with the aim of helping...
by Asif Afzal | Feb 20, 2020 | Language, Localization, Translation
Facebook have, once again, had to apologise for mistakes made by its machine translation after it mistranslated the name of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping. The inaccurate translation occurred when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, posted...
by Asif Afzal | Feb 14, 2020 | Cross-Cultural Training, Language, Translation
A recent article by the BBC online highlighted the way our native language affects our ability to process numbers and our early maths ability. As adults, we give little thought to our ability to process a given number as it has become second nature, but recent...
by Asif Afzal | Feb 7, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Localization, Translation
A recent article by the BBC online highlights the difficulty in translating scientific terminology around the world. It suggests that although English is now considered the dominant scientific language, it lacks some of the finesse and adaptability that other...
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