Tired of working late hours because something went wrong during the translation project management? Or is the reason for that that your agency is still using an outdated software, which wasn’t meant to deal with the expectations of the ever accelerating 21 century? Looking for a solution your whole company could benefit from? Take aRead more
Working as a translator is a beautiful job: you can use your creativity, have the freedom to decide when and where to work, bridge language barriers – it is full of advantages! But if you want to be honest, this lifestyle has its difficulties as well. Have you ever experienced being exhausted, feeling unable toRead more
Every now and then we bump into articles, gags, blog posts, videos saying something like “The top 10 hardest languages in the world”. But does such a thing at all exist? Let’s take a better look on that with linguists! Danish In the above video it is stated: danish is the 10th of the most difficultRead more
A very interesting article has been published on iflscience.com: it is about researches showing the language you speak actually changes your view of the world. It is even more exciting when it comes to bi- or multilingual people… One of these researches has been published in Psychological Science. In this research scientists studied German-English bilinguals andRead more
Languages are most likely almost as old as mankind – or, at least, the same age with any early civilization. Plus, they are as variable as the civilizations across the world which obviously makes us think there must be some linguistic world records hard to believe. A LinkedIn user Omar Almossa collected quite a few fromRead more
A very enthusiastic reddit user created these amazing word maps, businessinsider.com reports. Did you know anything about the origins of the words church, apple, bear, orange, rose, pineapple, and so on? The etymology of these words might surprise you – as well as the similarities and differences of these words in the european languages. Let’s start it with church.Read more