The Declaration of Independence in Foreign Languages
What Declaration of Independence means to American citizens and how it was translated into foreign language. Learn some interesting facts.
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What Declaration of Independence means to American citizens and how it was translated into foreign language. Learn some interesting facts.
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.
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.
What exactly is an eponym? How many of these do we use in everyday speech without even noticing? Explore the most famous eponyms and much more in TheWordPoint's informative blog.
If you’re considering a career in translation, you may have encountered confusion between translations and transcriptions. While similar in sound, they differ significantly in practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Who remains the world's most translated author, why this happened. Learn interesting facts about writer's life and achievements.
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