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How to Find the Best English-Spanish Dictionaries
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How to Find the Best English-Spanish Dictionaries

A good dictionary is a great assistant for a translator. The ability to search and retrieve the needed translations is often crucial for the workflow, the pace, the energy, and the time spent on each text. Nowadays the variety of dictionaries of any kind is impressive. However, not all of them are equally suitable and helpful. So in order to facilitate one’s working process, one needs to choose carefully.

Carl Hill 17 May 2020
What Is the Most Translated Website in the World?
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What Is the Most Translated Website in the World?

If to envision the most translated website in the world, the first idea that comes to mind is that this website must be some widely known social media network like Facebook, a global trade platform like Amazon, or Wikipedia. However, all of these guesses are wrong and pretty far from the right answer.

Carl Hill 08 May 2020
How to Express Your Feelings in Different Languages
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How to Express Your Feelings in Different Languages

If you want to learn how to say I love you in different languages, that’s a pretty easy task. So is learning how to say I love you back. These are common phrases in Romantic and Germanic languages, and the sentiment is common enough that it’s easy to find an interpretation of the term in other language families.

Carl Hill 03 Nov 2017
How to Say Trick or Treat in 5 Different Languages And Other Halloween Facts
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How to Say Trick or Treat in 5 Different Languages And Other Halloween Facts

In the United States Midwest, parents prepare their children to give the usual Halloween speech, ‘Trick or Treat!’. They also prepare them for a sneaky trick or treat answer. It’s tradition for many people answering the door on Halloween night to answer ‘Trick or Treat!’ with ‘Trick’. This means the child has to perform some sort of trick before getting a treat. Kids may sing Halloween songs, tell a joke, even play a simple magic trick.

Carl Hill 27 Oct 2017
How to Decode Minion (Banana) Language
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How to Decode Minion (Banana) Language

There are several languages that have been created from movies or works of literature. There’s Klingon from the Star Trek franchise. The movie Avatar brought us Na’vi. There’s also Dothraki from Game of Thrones. Let’s not forget Elvish, Nadsat, and Lapine.

Andrew Samkowski 06 Oct 2017
Untranslatable Words in The English Language
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Untranslatable Words in The English Language

How do you say restroom in French? What’s the Japanese word for grape? If you’re a translator or just speak more than one language you probably answer questions like these frequently. The answers, by the way, are salle de repos and グレープ (gurēpu). You may also be aware that there are words that simply don’t translate well out of or into certain languages. This is even true for English. Keep reading to learn what some of these words are.

Mark Blackwood 22 Aug 2017
Six Entertaining Ways to Learn Spanish
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Six Incredibly Entertaining Ways to Learn Spanish

​There are lots of Spanish learning programs – they have a serious curriculum and a structured series of lessons, based on vocabulary, grammar, and basic conversation. The problem with most of them is that they are a bit boring. If you are a person who is thinking to yourself, “I like to have fun in Spanish learning,” then read on. Here are five great, fun ways to learn the language.

Andrew Samkowski 13 Dec 2014