5 Reasons Why AI Will Never be Fluent in Semantics
In an article on information-age.com, author Michael Baxter states that Artificial Intelligence is close to reaching an understanding of...
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- Jul 31, 2019
How English Teaches Us About East Asian Cultures
Leave it to the world’s lingua franca, English. Spoken widely throughout the world, English can often be found sneaking its words into...
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- Jun 15, 2019
Is Chinese really set to become the dominant language of the internet?
Read enough news about language and marketing and you’re bound to come across this claim fairly often: In a few years, the dominant...
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- May 30, 2019
14 Signs You are (finally) Fluent in Another Language
You have been fastidiously dedicated to learning another language. This may be your second one or even your fourth. The endless hours...
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- Jan 31, 2019
How Cycling Could Make Bilinguals Monolingual
What would you do if you woke up thinking and speaking one language, but by the afternoon, after a bike ride, you could only speak an...
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- Oct 31, 2018
When nurses and mice are always female: Challenges of gender and translation
Does your native language have genders? Some, like Spanish or French, have a masculine and feminine form of a noun, and adjectives and...
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- May 30, 2018
8 By-products of Foreign Language Learning
Learning a foreign language not only helps us communicate with another tongue, it also helps us gain new perspectives and a few new...
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- Apr 30, 2018
6 reasons why you can’t seem to learn that foreign language and how to fix them
Maybe you have been trying for years to learn a foreign language or maybe it has been a little shorter than that, but it just doesn’t...
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- Mar 30, 2018
The lingua franca shift is inevitable. Here is your survival kit.
Languages are ever-changing. A lingua franca can be dethroned on seemingly little notice. What once was the main language of the globe,...
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- Feb 14, 2018
Transforming the World with Good Old-Fashioned Love in any Language
There is a guy, a regular Joe, currently, traveling our nation handing out hugs, high fives, and good old-fashioned small talk to anyone...
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- Dec 29, 2017
New Year, New Language: How to ensure you learn a new language in 2018
Ahh! A fresh new year is on the horizon! Such promise it holds! It starts out with a big party. Good food, friends and hope renewed. This...
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- Oct 15, 2017
Want an even more Successful Business? Offer Language Training!
Smart and successful companies are made up of strong leadership, innovation and positive, forward thinking strategies. They strive to...
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- Aug 15, 2017
Tricky Challenges Every Translator Faces
We all know being a translator is a demanding job – one that requires understanding not only a language, but the people who speak it,...
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- Jul 14, 2017
5 Challenges Every Interpreter Faces
A professional certified interpreter’s job is to connect people through language using above-par language skills, diligence, perseverance...
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- Jun 30, 2017
Language Influences How We Think: Fact, or (Science) Fiction?
Sci-fi movies often require viewers to suspend at least some belief. Certain linguists and language lovers had to do this in a very...
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- Jun 15, 2017
Self-confidence is the memory of success: How to Overcome your Fear of Speaking a Foreign Language
Speaking a foreign language can be scary. All those words and grammatical rules floating around inside your head. Plus, speaking happens...
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- May 26, 2017
Latinx and The Linguistic Revolution
You may have heard that it is now perfectly acceptable to use “they” when referring to a single person. The old “he/she” rule is now...
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- Mar 28, 2017
Two for One: How Foreign Language Training Can Help You Gain and Retain Clients
The shifting landscape of language and immigration across the globe, cultural diversity and global market needs people who walk through...
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- Feb 28, 2017
Learning a New Language? Give it 10,000 Hours.
Many people wonder how long it takes to learn a second language. Well, the answer is about 10,000 hours. Just ask Malcolm Gladwell,...
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- Feb 27, 2017
Translation, Multiple Meanings and Cookbooks
Last month, we discussed how multiple meanings matter immensely in translation. We gave quite a few examples such as how you can swim in...
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