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How to Speak Pig Latin?
Pig Latin isn’t really a language that is spoken properly. It is one of the pseudo, or fake languages spoken by English-speaking people, mostly in the United States of America. This so called language can be used by adults, but mostly children are its astonished and amazed speakers. There are approximately 7000 recognized languages in…
Esperanto Language – Who Actually Speaks It?
Esperanto is considered the most famous artificial language in the world which has been suggested as a second international language. Its creator, a Polish linguist and an ophthalmologist named Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof from Warsaw, believed that people needed a neutral language which can help them connect more easily than learning a specific natural language. Being inspired by…
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What’s the Difference? – Localization, Globalization, Internationalization
The terms localization, globalization, internationalization may be perceived as being very similar. In fact, they are soo much alike that many people use them as synonyms and apply them alternately. However, there are some elegant and refined differences among them, which are tremendously important if a person is ambitious and willing to push the limits…
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How Many Languages are Spoken in China?
China is definitely the largest country in Asia, with a total area of 9,596,961 square kilometers, and is famous for many cultural and traditional diversities. One of such diversities is the Chinese language as well. How many languages are spoken in China? With such vast population, it is expected that various languages are spoken in…
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Russian Interpreting: Differences Between the English and Russian languages
Although English and Russian both belong to the Indo-European language family, these languages are not parts of the same branch. Whereas English originates from the Germanic branch, Russian comes from the Slavonic branch. Accordingly, Russian is more similar to the languages like Serbo-Croatian, Czech and Polish, which belong to the Slav languages. During the USSR,…
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Top 20 Fascinating Cultural Traditions Around the World
All countries in the world have their own unique cultural traditions. The customs and tradition that we all were born into, may deeply define our views and even the whole being of ours, or at least, it happened in the past. For this reason, when people go to another part of the world, they are…
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5 Puzzling Ways Japanese to English Mistranslation Contorts English
Foreigners who have visited Japan or lived there for a long time, have always been and remained fascinated with the literal translation of English into Japanese. This phenomenon of mistranslation is especially hilarious to the native English speakers to the extant that they admire the “creativity” of the “artist” and his “courage” to show it…
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Migration, Immigration, and Emigration: What are the Differences?
Although the English language may seem easy to learn in terms of structure and grammar, or, at least easier than some languages, it should not be taken for granted due to its semantics which can be very misleading. There are such words that can be misused in everyday communication, or even, in professional…
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Why Learning the English language is Difficult?
Learning English is Difficult! At first sight, nobody would think that the English language may be difficult in certain aspects because it is spoken all over the world. It is the official language in many countries, or the second official. Apart from these regions, almost everybody is using it for different purposes. Anyway, the language…
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Four things that make it difficult to translate between English and Arabic
The everlasting problem of any translator in the world is how to convey the message expressed in the text of a language they are translating from to the language they are translating into, in the same style, tone, manner and essence. It is allowed to a translator to sometimes keep the meaning with slight changes…
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