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Best Website Word Counter?
Did you know that we looked for a usable free website word counter for over a year and couldn’t find anything useful? When I asked myself: “How come there are no decent online website word calculators and in 2020 we still have to resort to some obscure ways of estimating the word counts?” I was…
What is Google Translate doing to the translation profession?
Machine translation tool, Google Translate, appeared in 2006 bringing a bit of distrust and dissatisfaction on one hand, and a sigh of relief on the other. Those who were a bit intimidated by a modern tool at that time, were the translators and other people whose business was closely related to the translation industry, but…
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How To Translate User-Generated Content?
Translating User-Generated Content As an average internet user, have you ever heard about UGC or user-generated content? Don’t worry, especially because you are probably using or creating it all the time. Why is user-generated content so important in today’s media and its translation? First of all, it can largely give you the picture of the…
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How to Speak Pig Latin?
Pig Latin isn’t really a language that is spoken properly. It is one of the pseudo, or fake languages spoken by English-speaking people, mostly in the United States of America. This so called language can be used by adults, but mostly children are its astonished and amazed speakers. There are approximately 7000 recognized languages in…
Esperanto Language – Who Actually Speaks It?
Esperanto is considered the most famous artificial language in the world which has been suggested as a second international language. Its creator, a Polish linguist and an ophthalmologist named Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof from Warsaw, believed that people needed a neutral language which can help them connect more easily than learning a specific natural language. Being inspired by…
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What’s the Difference? – Localization, Globalization, Internationalization
The terms localization, globalization, internationalization may be perceived as being very similar. In fact, they are soo much alike that many people use them as synonyms and apply them alternately. However, there are some elegant and refined differences among them, which are tremendously important if a person is ambitious and willing to push the limits…
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Lesson 1 – How to Research Competition, Setup Multilingual Website, Find Keywords
In this 7 lesson course, we will learn how to expand a website into two languages: Italian and Portuguese, how to find local competitors, how to setup Google Ads, how to monitor keywords and ensure we have conversions from foreign customers.
How Many Languages are Spoken in China?
China is definitely the largest country in Asia, with a total area of 9,596,961 square kilometers, and is famous for many cultural and traditional diversities. One of such diversities is the Chinese language as well. How many languages are spoken in China? With such vast population, it is expected that various languages are spoken in…
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Russian Interpreting: Differences Between the English and Russian languages
Although English and Russian both belong to the Indo-European language family, these languages are not parts of the same branch. Whereas English originates from the Germanic branch, Russian comes from the Slavonic branch. Accordingly, Russian is more similar to the languages like Serbo-Croatian, Czech and Polish, which belong to the Slav languages. During the USSR,…
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Top 20 Fascinating Cultural Traditions Around the World
All countries in the world have their own unique cultural traditions. The customs and tradition that we all were born into, may deeply define our views and even the whole being of ours, or at least, it happened in the past. For this reason, when people go to another part of the world, they are…
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