Día E Is Near
Since 2009, on the Saturday closest to the summer solstice, the Cervantes Institute celebrates Día E (S Day): “the holiday of all Spanish speakers,” as advertised by the Center itself.
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Translating Is No Joke . . . or Is It?
A few weeks ago, we talked about the difficulty inherent in the translation of poetry. Along with poetry, another category of communication that is difficult to translate is humor. As
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International Translation Day Celebrations
For those of you who don’t know, Friday, September 30th marked the 58th annual celebration of International Translation Day. Celebrated around the world every year, this holiday was originally started
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Nicaraguan Academy of Language
This language academy was founded on August 8, 1928, through an Executive Order of President Adolfo Diaz, published a week later in the Official Gazette. Its creation and legal status
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Dominican Language Academy
Founded in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on October 12, 1927, it works side by side with the Spanish Royal Academy in its mission to include all regional expressions of the
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Another Semitic Language: Hebrew
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family.The oldest Hebrew alphabet comes from the Phoenicians and the modern alphabet from another known as proto-Hebrew. Hebrew has always been
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The Chilean Language Academy
This Academy was created on June 5, 1885, in Santiago. In chronological terms, it was the sixth such academy established in Latin America. Its purposes are: 1. to ensure the
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Argentine Language Academy
It was founded in 1931. Given that at first it did not have the characteristics of a “Language Academy”, it was just “associated” to the Royal Spanish Academy. Now it
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Now Google Translates Poems
Google continues to innovate. Now it is expanding the reach of Google Translate to perform translations of poems. Yes yes, poetry! If you ever tried to translate poetry, you know
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Contemporary Theories on Translation: Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz asserts that language is, above all, translation (translation and literature are synonyms). Translation is always a literary operation, since it is an artistic or scientific work as it
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