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Original‎ Chinese Translation of “Colombiana”‎

by Richard Kazandjian September 7, 2011 Entertainment

The distributors of the action movie Colombiana, which stars Zoe Saldana as a female assassin, ran into a bit of a hurdle when they tried to get the movie approved for distribution in Hong Kong. The problem? An unintentional double entendre in the movie’s original Mandarin title, “Hei-lan-jiao,” which means “Black Orchid Beauty.” Unfortunately, in [...]

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Chinese Opera Program

by Richard Kazandjian August 25, 2011 Education

Music may be the “universal language,” but that didn’t make learning to sing opera in Chinese any easier for the 20 American singers who joined China’s “I Sing Beijing” program this summer. The Associated Press chronicled the vocalists’ struggles in a recent article. You probably remember learning to sing “Frère Jacques” and “Feliz Navidad” in [...]

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Translation On The Silver Screen

by Tanguy July 27, 2011 Entertainment

These days, movies and even TV shows are expected to play for a global audience. However, translating them is often as difficult as translating literature. So much of what makes a successful film or TV show “work” is rooted in local culture. For example, consider Disney’s recent worldwide release of “Cars 2.”   Rick Dempsey, senior [...]

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The Language of Harry Potter

by Tanguy July 18, 2011 Entertainment

The last instalment of  Harry Potter came out in theatres last week, and for fans, it marked the end of an era. Unwilling to see the series they love go out with anything less than a bang, they’re turning up in theatres in droves and often in costume. You also might notice them lapsing into [...]

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Star Wars + Vikings = Awesome!

by Tanguy June 15, 2011 Entertainment

If there were an award given out for the geekiest translation project ever, I think I might just have found a contender: Tattúínárdœla Saga, the “Star Wars” story rewritten in the style of the Old Norse Sagas and translated into Old Norse as well. The saga is the brainchild of Jackson Crawford, a grad student [...]

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Links Between Welsh and Elvish

by Richard Brooks May 25, 2011 Entertainment

A new book from Cardiff University Professor Dr Carl Phelpstead gives Welsh geeks one more reason to be proud of their heritage: it was the inspiration for Sindarin, one of two elven languages created by fantasy author J.R.R Tolkien. The other, Quenya, is based more on Finnish. Tolkien was entranced by the sounds of Welsh. [...]

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Welsh Exit Sign Confuses Shoppers

by Caroline Mikolajczyk May 20, 2011 Entertainment

Bilingual shoppers leaving the Tesco in Swansea are presented with a bit of a conundrum: An exit sign with the English word “Exit” pointing to the right, and the Welsh translation, “Allanfa,” pointing to the left.

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Deaf Puppy Joins Deaf Family, Learns Sign Language

by Caroline Mikolajczyk March 25, 2011 Entertainment

Alice, a springer spaniel who was born deaf just found a new home where the inhabitants are both deaf as well…Read more now!

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Want to See the World From a New Perspective?

by Caroline Mikolajczyk March 24, 2011 Entertainment

A new study indicates that learning a second language can actually change the way you see the world. Read more now!

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C.S. Lewis’ Translation of the Aeneid to Be Released Next Month

by Caroline Mikolajczyk March 10, 2011 Entertainment

C.S Lewis, the author of the Chronicles of Narnia books has been dead for 48 years but next month fragments of his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid will be published for the first time.

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