Recent interest in Iran has made search engine giant Google speed up work on its upcoming project – a release tool that will translate Farsi into English and vice-versa.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Top Languages on the Internet
Find out which languages have the largest user base on the internet.
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The Growth of Turkey
Turkey’s success is down to its economic focus on ‘service’ rather than agriculture.
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Mastering Multilingual Twitter Engagement
Multilingual social media engagement will almost certainly grow in the coming years.
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Even with some knowledge of the French language, things can get lost in translation, sometimes with amusing results.
There are dozens of voluntary online translation groups dotted across China translating a mix of media from books and magazines to games, TV shows and movies. Members of these groups have a growing appetite for online English content and they participate in these groups out of a desire to improve their English and make overseas content accessible to other Chinese people by inserting Chinese subtitles on different forms of media.
Microsoft has employed Chinese-language specialists to conduct extensive consumer research and consultation to ensure the appropriate representation of its new search engine brand name ‘Bing.’
France might be just across the English Channel from Britain, but Emma Jane Kirby says both nations are still prone to the pitfalls of linguistic misunderstandings.
