Anyone who has ever tried machine translation and seen the awkward results knows that the human touch is important when it comes to translation. Languages are a lot like human beings, with their own special quirks. Something that makes sense in one language can make little or no sense in…
As a language, French is very close to English. There are many overlapping words between the two. However, French pronunciations are completely different, which makes English speakers unable to understand even when the French are using the same word. For example, in French, one always uses the soft “t” and…
One of the main things you come up against when translating are intercultural differences. People from different countries don’t only vary in terms of the language they speak. They also vary in terms of their clothing, food, professional ethics, personal values etc. People from different cultures have different ways of…