What is Pig Latin?
I remember as a kid, growing up in the U.S., always trying to communicate with my friends in secret. One method we used was writing our notes in invisible ink.
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November 18, 2013
Latin Phrases: The Resistance of a Dead Language
Until the 18th century, the language of cultural and scientific expression in Europe was Latin. For this reason, many Latin phrases continue to be used until today in scientific, philosophical,
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November 15, 2013
How Is a Word Count Calculated for Translations?
When it comes to determining the cost of a translation, the main factor to take into account is the famous word count. Of course, the format of the text or
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November 13, 2013
What Are Layman’s Terms?
Have you ever read something that was so incredibly advanced, so convoluted, and so full of strange vocabulary that you downright did not understand anything? Well, rest assured, you are
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November 11, 2013
Spanish Language and Its Countless Variations
Today, the Spanish speaking population reaches over 500 million people around the world. Additionally, Latin America has become in a rapidly growing market with much development and growth potential. Without
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November 9, 2013
Impressing Clients with Menus
Menus are without a doubt the first tool to impress clients in restaurants, bars, cafes, etc. When considering opening a business as such, it is extremely important to invest time
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November 8, 2013
The Translation of Humor in Asterix
Asterix was one of my first devotions as a reader. I started reading the comic so young that, even before understanding that the story takes place somewhere in Europe two
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November 7, 2013
What Are the Differences Between Spanish and Catalan?
Both of them are Romance languages, but Catalan—contrary to popular belief—is not a dialect of Spanish, but rather an entirely different language. In fact, looks nothing like the Spanish that
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November 6, 2013
What Happened to the Letter Q in Turkish?
When Turkey first became a democratically recognized sovereign country in the 1920s, it made some major changes that greatly affected the life and the culture of its citizens. In
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November 4, 2013
Foreign Film or Film in Foreign Language
This past week the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, announced the complete shortlist of nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film 2014. Sure enough, because this is the
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November 2, 2013
Six Degrees of Separation
According to the theory of the six degrees of separation, proposed in 1930 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy, any person is connected to another person on the planet by
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November 1, 2013
A Sonorous Atlas of the Spanish Language
To celebrate the Sixth International Conference on the Spanish Language, which took place last week in Panama, the Spanish newspaper El País had writers from the twenty Spanish-speaking countries (as
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October 30, 2013
