Learning Mandarin Makes Business Sense for Britain
in NewsFigures from the Department for Education show that fewer UK children are learning a foreign language. An increasing number of non-Brits, meanwhile, are becoming multi-lingual.
“Huh?” – the word that needs no translation
in NewsA busy translation agency like Today Translations handles documents totalling hundreds of thousands of words every week, in languages from all over the world. From engineering documents in Dutch to Buddhist spells in Pali, a sacred and now dead language that has not been widely spoken for more than 200 years, there's nothing that we can't translate. Yet research suggests there's at least one word that never needs to be translated.
What makes London and not Beijing the Capital of Languages?
in NewsAccording to a survey of school children in London, the City's residents speak over 300 languages from around the world. On the other hand, China has more language graduates per year than any other country. So the question is, what makes London the 'capital of languages?'
可口可乐 vs. iPhone – How do you localise?
in NewsThe case of two corporations in China tells an interesting story of two quite different approaches to localisation.