The future’s bright for the translation industry
posted Wed, 2008-11-19 17:18 by
Whilst certain industries have taken a battering over the past year or so, the future has never looked so good for the translation industry.
Last week saw Europe’s largest technical documentation fair take place. The Tekom Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, presented new translation technologies and methods and also featured a presentation on the future of the translation market in the official conference programme.
tags: Language Service Provders, Technical Documentation Fair, Tekom Conference, Translation Company, Translation Industry
YouTube helps bridge language barriers
posted Thu, 2008-11-13 12:26 by
The late, great educator, philosopher and scholar Marshall McLuhan achieved much during his lifetime, but will be best remembered for popularising the term ‘global village’ back in the 1960s.
The Canadian professor was perhaps a little ahead of his time in realising that electronic mass media would eventually break down the barriers of time and distance that had thus far inhibited global communication from reaching its full potential.
tags: Auto Translate, globalisation, global village, machine translations, marshall mcluhan, Translations, YouTube
World literature in translation…
posted Wed, 2008-11-12 11:32 by
From Shakespeare and Dickens, to Orwell and Wilde; the English-speaking world has produced some of the finest and most celebrated writers ever known.
Indeed, William Shakespeare’s work alone has been read, performed and analysed by millions of people across the globe and has been translated into every major living language – and some minor ones too, including Albanian, Yakut and even Zulu.
