September 2010

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Meet Colin Wright… World Traveler, Minimalist and Entrepreneur!

by Caroline Mikolajczyk September 24, 2010 Interview

Discover the amazing blog “Exile Lifestyle” and the author, Colin Wright, successful entrepreneur who left his native America to go traveling the world to seek adventure and new experiences.

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International Translation Day

by Richard Brooks September 22, 2010 Events

Its International Translation Day this month. It focuses on the importance of developing the cultural understanding necessary to offer quality translations in many different languages and to promote linguistic diversity worldwide.

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British Woman Wakes Up With a French Accent

by Richard Brooks September 22, 2010 Learning Languages

Can you imagine going to bed and waking up sounding like you’re from another country? What if you you started talking in a foreign accent and weren’t able to stop? Sounds unreal but this really can happen.

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More French Pop Artists Singing in English

by Richard Brooks September 17, 2010 Entertainment

According to The Guardian, more and more recent French pop and rock artists have been forgoing the advantage that singing in French gives them on French radio, and have been choosing to sing in English instead.

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Klingon Opera Heads to Germany

by Charlie Jolly September 16, 2010 Entertainment

In the realm of fantasy and science fiction, Star Trek fans are justly recognized for their unwavering, some would say obsessive, fandom. The latest manifestation of this obsession? An opera written and performed entirely in Klingon.

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Proto-Indo-European

by Charlie Jolly September 15, 2010 Languages

All in all, the Indo-European language family includes approximately 3 billion people speaking several hundred different languages. Each of these languages stems from a common, long-vanished ancestor called Proto-Indo-European.

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Preparing Copy for Translation

by Richard Brooks September 14, 2010 Translation

A good quality translation is dependant on the original copy. With this in mind this page gives a list of tips to help you to create copy which will be easier to translate.

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Cartoon Characters Translated

by Caroline Mikolajczyk September 13, 2010 Translation

A list of popular cartoon characters and their respective translated name.

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The Cherokee Language

by Richard Brooks September 13, 2010 Languages

The Cherokee language is unique among Native American languages in that it is both a written and spoken language. Written Cherokee, or Tsalagi as it’s more properly called, has a full syllabary, a collection of symbols in which each symbol corresponds to a sound. Currently, there are two stories of how the syllabary came to be invented.

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British Sign Language

by Richard Brooks September 10, 2010 Languages

K International produce all kinds of great projects that help our clients to communicate. The latest was a British Sign Language video we made on behalf of the Greater London Authority. This post shows a 2 minute sample of the video which was filmed in front of a green screen in our studio.

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