Visual Poetry
As a reader, poetry is easy to recognize. And it’s always such a wonderful experience to hear it read out loud. Poetry is also quite a challenge to translate; not
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Translating Poetry
As translators, we know that one of the hardest things to translate is poetry.Rhyme, meter, cadence, word selection, rhythm: we could spend weeks on end trying to translate one short
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Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) vs. Classical Arabic: Which Format to Choose for English to Arabic Translations and Why
Did you know there are over 25 different varieties of Arabic? Which is the correct form to choose for your Arabic translation needs? Today we examine two of the largest
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Is Bengali about to Boom?
From its earliest days as a trading lingua franca to the present day, Bengali has played a leading role in the cultural and economic development of South Asia. Its 200
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Korean Language: North and South
Spoken by around eighty million people, Hangugeo (or chosŏnmal) is the official language of both South and North Korea. However, after almost eight decades since the division into North and
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Do You Speak Aranese?
Chances are high that you do not speak Aranese. In fact, it is very likely that you’ve never even heard of Aranese! This is the language spoken by the inhabitants
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Literary Translation and the Race Issue
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the Dutch translator that was set to translate Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, stepped down from the translation job three days after the appointment. But why?
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The Influence of Arabic in Western Languages and Culture
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Arabic is about as far removed from Western languages as you can get. After all, Arabic is spoken in a completely different part of
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Usability: How much is too much?
In our last post on usability, we briefly touched on Machine Translation’s role in the matter and the tools that can be useful to achieve a desired final product. This
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Infamously “Untranslatable”
During the process of localizing a text, unforeseen events may arise that imply an extra effort on the part of the translation team; from technical or specific vocabulary, to terms
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