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...
by Asif Afzal | Jan 8, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
Every January around 60% of us make a New Year’s resolution but only 8% of us actually achieve our goal, so this year, if you’re considering learning a language as one of your New Year’s resolutions, we’ve put together the following tips to help you stick at it and...
by Asif Afzal | Sep 20, 2019 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
The European Commission have just launched the 13th edition of their annual ‘Juvenes Translatores’ competition for secondary school pupils across Europe. From September 2nd, schools from all member states can register online ensuring their students can compete against...
by Asif Afzal | Jul 29, 2019 | Cross-Cultural Training, Language, Translation
In the 1940s a linguist called Benjamin Lee Whorf claimed that speakers of the Hopi language (a Native American language spoken in North-Eastern America) and Native English speakers, view the world differently because of differences in their language. Since this time,...
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