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French Translation Services 6 Essential Facts for Businesses

Published On - March 27, 2018

K International Language Blog, TranslationTags: French

French Translation Services: 6 Essential Facts for Businesses

French is one of our most-requested languages here at K International, and with good reason. But there’s much more to French translation than meets the eye. Here are six essential facts that businesses in the market for French translation services need to know. Some French words should n...

Published On - December 14, 2017

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Language learning, Mandarin, Spanish

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Why French is Important 12 Facts You Should Know

Published On - March 22, 2017

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: French

Why French is Important: 12 Facts You Should Know

March 18-26 is French Language Week (or more properly, Semaine de la Langue Française et de la Francophonie). In that spirit, we’d like to offer our own salute to the French language. Over the past few years, it’s become somewhat fashionable to say that French is passé. For example...

Published On - June 30, 2014

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Language learning, Spanish

Does the UK Need More Foreign Language Speakers?

Is the UK facing a shortage of foreign language speakers in the near future? That seems to be the case, a new study from the CBI confirms. Last year, the British Council released a report describing the potential economic harm caused by not having enough UK workers with the right foreign language ...

Published On - March 29, 2014

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: French

French: Language of Tomorrow?

What do you think the most valuable foreign language will be in the future? For most of you, Mandarin (or standard) Chinese was probably the first language that came to mind. That’s not an unreasonable assumption, considering China’s size and ascendency in the world economy. However, d...

Published On - December 11, 2013

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: French, idioms, Transcreation

French Idioms

French Idioms and their English Equivalents An idiom is an expression whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions of the words that make up the expression. In other words you couldn’t look up the meaning of each word in a dictionary and comprehend the meaning of the sentence. ...

Published On - January 30, 2013

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: French

No Hashtags, Please, We’re French

In recent years, the guardians of the French language have had trouble keeping up with the influx of English-language loanwords from the tech world. Buzzwords like “cloud computing” and services like Twitter and Facebook leave an unmistakable, and unmistakably English, impact on the lang...

Published On - October 20, 2012

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Books, French

French Readers Devour “50 Shades of Grey” Translation

50 Shades of Grey may have effortlessly taken the English-speaking world by storm, but what about the French? The answer may surprise you. After all, in the country that gave us the Marquis de Sade, you’d expect readers to have more discriminating tastes when it comes to sadomasochism. French ...

Published On - September 9, 2012

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: French

How Twitter is Changing French

We all know that technology is changing the English language, adding new words and bringing shorthand like LOL and WTF even into spoken conversations. However, English isn’t the only language that’s being affected by the rise of new forms of communication like Twitter and Facebook. If yo...

Published On - July 8, 2012

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: French

Is Cajun French in Danger?

If you’ve ever visited the state of Louisiana, a deep French cultural influence was probably one of the first things you noticed. French is everywhere…in the names of the towns, parishes and places, in the lyrics of Cajun music, and in the names of typical Cajun dishes like boudin and an...