What Colour is This?
This colour hasn’t got an exact name in English but it has in Japanese – it’s called mizu which translates as…
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When is a cake not a cake?
You might not believe it, but I regularly arbitrate fairly ferocious arguments about cake. And it’s not because my colleagues…
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Are translation apps really the answer for travellers?
The first thing you need to do before embarking on a trip to a foreign land is to start learning…
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Quote of the week: 21 Jun 2014
“Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.” Etgar Keret For more like this, find us on…
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Will Online Translators Make Language Learning Redundant?
Microsoft have just unveiled the latest version of their Skype Translator, which will enable us to chat with people all…
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Disney’s Frozen – How to Find a Voice That Fits
‘How are we going to do that in 41 languages?’ This was the question that Rick Dempsey, senior vice president…
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Pure and simple?
Recently, Alex wrote about the way languages borrow words from each other. She pointed out that in English, we’re always…
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Lost in translation: making sense of maths
Reading Nat’s post about all the fascinating linguistic differences and difficulties that she and her translators experienced when translating the…
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Do you know who you’re talking to?
Our post today is by Izabella Klein, who’s been working with us to translate our maths apps into Brazilian Portuguese. Izabella’s…
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The challenges of translation
Over the last six months we’ve had our new free app uTalk translated into over 30 languages, and dealt with…