by alinacw | Mar 8, 2017 | Language
Due to their supremacy in international communications, the demand for English to French and French to English translations is high. Although both languages are very similar – sentences follow the subject-verb-object order, active and passive voice is used,...
by alinacw | Feb 21, 2017 | Language
With an estimated 270 million speakers across 55 countries, it is clear that Francophones (French speaking people and nations) have an extensive influence worldwide. An estimated 100 million people are native French speakers and a further 180 million secondary. These...
by alinacw | Feb 2, 2017 | Language
The largest concentration of Spanish speakers can be found in South America however, the Spanish spoken in Latin America differs from Castilian Spanish (the variation of Spanish used in Spain). Although it does not prevent understanding of the language for a Spanish...
by alinacw | Jan 26, 2017 | Language
Spanish and English have their similarities. As derivatives of both Latin and Arabic, their vocabulary is often very similar. These are known as cognates, words that sound alike and mean the same thing. For example, ‘abandoned’ in Spanish is abandonado, ‘harmony’ is...
by alinacw | Dec 13, 2016 | Language
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world. Surpassed by only Mandarin, the language is spoken by approximately 490 million people worldwide, 329 million of whom are native speakers. Such is its international significance, Spanish is also one of the few...
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