by Asif Afzal | Oct 12, 2020 | Doing business, Language, Localization, Translation
The Catalogue of Endangered Languages has found that over the last 40 years an average of 3.5 languages have become extinct each year, with 3054 languages (43% of all languages) currently on the endangered list. Even native British languages such as Cornish, Welsh and...
by Asif Afzal | Jul 31, 2019 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
An article by Alzheimer’s Research UK has highlighted a study by scientists in Italy, which suggests that being bilingual could be beneficial in delaying Alzheimer’s, due to an increase in ‘cognitive reserve’. Earlier studies had shown how those that speak more than...
by Asif Afzal | Nov 27, 2018 | Language, Localization, Translation
Researchers at Dublin City University have released results of a study that suggests that, despite the hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence and Machine Translation (MT), technology struggles to complete with human expertise when translating literary texts. The...
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