by Natalie Andrews | Apr 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Google translate, the machine translation (MT) service is believed to translate in excess of thirty trillion sentences/year (Kuczmarski, 2018)[1] in more than 100 languages. But would you let it translate your IFU into Japanese? MT applications may successfully...
by Julia Tuff | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Mastery of Global English May Boost UK Business’ Overseas Revenue in a post-Brexit era English is probably still regarded as the main business language in the Western world. However, how well are native English speakers really being understood by other...
by Julia Tuff | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Languages are vanishing around the world at an alarming rate; every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker,according to UNESCO. Between 1950 and 2010, 230 languages went extinct and, today, a third of the world’s languages are spoken by fewer than 1000...
by Julia Tuff | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
令和 Reiwa: what’s behind the name of Japan’s new era and what does the term really mean? The recent abdication of Japan’s emperor, Akihito, made history in more ways than one. Of note, he is the first Japanese emperor to step down in over 200 years. The accession of...
by Julia Tuff | Mar 1, 2019 | Translation Services
Using computers to translate between languages is nothing new. The first public demonstration of a machine translation system took place in 1954. The IBM technology was, understandably, very basic, translating between just 250 words of Russian and English. However, it...