It is no secret that machine translation has come a long way in recent years, but these developments indicate that MT is approaching full launch and could potentially reach a level of near-perfection in a matter of four or five years. Corporate growth is dependent on multilingual content and machine translation can offer enormous benefits to companies willing to embrace cutting-edge technology, the obvious advantages being reduction in costs, time and labour. Continue reading
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Italian Translation Services
The Italian Translation Center provides professional human translation services which are subjected to strict quality control procedures. We keep the turnaround time as short as possible but at the same time ensure a top-class product, saving you time and money.
Below please find some useful facts about Italian:
• Italians is spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by some 70 million around the world;
• Italian is the official language in Italy, San Marino and the Vatican City and one of the official languages in Switzerland and Slovenia;
• Italian is written using the Latin alphabet;
• Unlike English, Italian defines everything as being either male or female;
• You have to be very careful with the pronunciation of some words in Italian because it can completely change their meaning;
• Many dialects of Italian are so different from standard Italian that they are considered separate languages, e.g.: Sardinian Continue reading
On the periphery of language
Although numerous studies have been devoted to bilingualism, relatively few have focused on the phenomenon of the pidgin languages. Philologists, theorists and historians of these languages tend to ignore them and prefer to focus on the primary languages. This is especially surprising since there are many forms of pidgin used daily in the world, particularly in ethnically diverse areas.
Pidgin is considered to be a very basic and simplified form of speech, an auxiliary and contact language, which means it is used for communication between different cultures and speakers of mutually unintelligible languages and dialects.
The term ‘pidgin’ originally referred to Chinese Pidgin English, a variety of English spoken by the Chinese and British as a trade language. With the passage of time, the term became generalized and now refers to any kind of simplified, combined language. The origin of the name itself is not clear. It probably derives from the Cantonese pronunciation of the English word business or from the English word pigeon, thereby referring to the use of birds for carrying messages. Continue reading
Transenter’s blog strikes again!
Transenter is a B2B translation agency with a wide network of translators, interpreters and language freaks. On our blog we write about the recent news in translation business, translation traps & tricks, services provided to the specialist market sectors, security in everyday translations, and many, many more translation related topics… Continue reading
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