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UNESCO chose to focus on the theme of translation during their World Book Day on Monday April 23rd. World Book Day seeks to promote reading and publishing. It was used this year to draw attention to the importance of translation and how it presents the opportunity to access a broader collection of books, allowing for [...]

For example, a 78-character long tweet in English could be as short as only 24 characters in Chinese. Concise languages make for excellent microblogging This makes Chinese ideal! Twitter, along with other microblogs, restricts users to write their messages in 140 characters or less. Consequently some languages seemingly fit better than others into the concept [...]

Figures show that only 48 of Britain’s 1,900 diplomats have an ‘extensive’ grasp of the language used in the country where they are based. These 48 diplomats receive a bonus on their salary as they are able to communicate fluently. This means that there are 1,852 diplomats who are not proficient enough in another language, [...]

This week marks the coming of the New Year for many Southeast Asian countries who welcome in the New Year traditionally in April instead of January. The celebrations take place around the 13-16th of April and sometimes last up to a week. Each country has their own traditions and there are many spiritual and religious [...]