by Asif Afzal | Mar 20, 2020 | Language, Translation
Arabic literature in translation has a rich history spanning more than 1500 years across diverse and complex subjects. For many of these years, translated Arabic texts were highly sought after and ownership was a matter of pride and wealth. Unfortunately, the last few...
by Asif Afzal | Mar 13, 2020 | Doing business, Language, Localization, Translation
The world seems to have become a very small place over the last few decades – global businesses, international workforces and worldwide financial transactions appear, at first glance, to be oblivious of country borders, language barriers and geographical distance, but...
by Asif Afzal | Mar 6, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
Interpreters are frequent visitors to high profile conferences and ceremonies but often remain behind the scenes, or inconspicuously hidden in plain sight, however, this year’s Oscars saw interpreter Sharon Choi centre front on the stage as she translated for Oscar...
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...
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