Category: Interesting to Know

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1. Year 2050
2. Year 2115

Do you remember the Babel tale? When a man decided to reach God by building a tall tower. That didn’t work out as apparently God is not a big fan of pop-visits. So, he cursed the human race with the variety of languages and made the communication process pretty difficult. In our today’s reality, knowing many foreign languages is the way to stay in touch with your friends and business partners abroad. And it’s a resume winner. We’ve stopped thinking of the numerous languages as a curse and now treat them as a mean to enrich our knowledge and professionalism. But will the situation change in the future? Will there be a future language that everybody will speak and understand?

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1. People
2. Environment
3. Money

Did you know that according to the most recent Pew Research Center survey measuring the smartphone penetration, the U.S. is not on the top of the list? With 72% of people owning smartphones, it only takes the fourth place being inferior to South Korea, Australia, and Israel. Some markets unreasonably get more attention than others, and some don’t get any at all. This lack of information is equally disappointing and inspiring because to conquer the markets with your apps overseas can be easier and of more fun.

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1. Time Records
2. Quantity Records
3. Melodic Records

We all tend to think that our native language is the most beautiful, the most comprehensive, the most flexible, and so on. That’s mostly due to our patriotic feelings. Some serious scientific research in linguistics has nothing to do with it. But there are languages with undeniable and very unusual record-breaking features you simply can’t ignore.

The main task of a good translator is to find the main idea of the text and communicate it in a foreign language. And it’s very important to save that unique style of writing and be able to interpret all of the individual features of an author. That’s why translating fiction literature is so difficult. We’ve tried to focus on those individual features of famous authors and come up with funny nicknames for them. Do you agree or disagree?

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1. Work of a translator
2. Most translated authors

Learning new languages is not only an exciting process but also a great opportunity to improve your professional skills and start thinking about your future career. The ability to speak foreign languages can help you gain the profession of your dreams. If you decide to become a translator one day, there are some important points you might want to consider first. Being a translator has some of the downsides as any other job does and the earlier you find out about them the better.

We all think of the movie-making process as of something magical and cryptic. It takes a long time for a film to transform from a messy script with director’s comments into a massive blockbuster recognized around the globe. Moreover, it takes even longer for the viewers overseas to see the long-awaited premiere at the cinemas. Professionals translate a film into the target language for the public to understand and enjoy it. Sometimes the public will get confused by the wrong movie title interpretations but it will be entertaining. So, let’s dive in into the magic world of cinematography.

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1. History of Dubbing
2. Dubbing Process
3. Big Challenges
4. Movie Title Interpretations

While learning foreign languages we often miss some of the interesting facts. We immediately start memorizing  new words and their conjugations without paying any attention to the history of a language and its peculiarities.  Every language opens a whole new world for us. The more we know about it, the better we can understand its essence. Knowing the cultural traditions will help you to create more accurate translations and improve your skills. We’ve received a wonderful infographic on the facts about the Spanish language from the guys at TakeLessons and would like to share it with you.

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1. Quick Facts
2. German Language Infographic

I’ve met a lot of people who think that the German language is all about long unpronounceable words and confusing rules of using definite and indefinite articles. There’s much more to it. Germans are having fun writing seemingly endless sentences and communicating by using numerous dialects.  The infographic below will show you some interesting facts about this beautiful language.