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When Despicable Me hit cinemas back in 2010, the breakout stars of the show were “super villain” Gru’s little yellow henchmen – the Minions. They were so popular that the adorable banana guys got their own movie – Minions – back in 2015. In 2022, this too received a sequel – Minions: the Rise of […]

What happens when some voices simply aren’t heard? That’s the question that Women in Translation month is trying to answer – and redress. The goal of Women in Translation – both the celebratory month of August and the volunteer project behind it – is to highlight talented women authors who write in languages that aren’t […]

There are well over 5000 living, spoken languages in use around the world. But every year, more enter the endangered languages list – or go extinct altogether. It’s been estimated by some linguists that the overall number of languages in the world may be halved – or we may lose as many as 80% of […]

French hangs on the Gallo-Romance branch of the Indo-European family tree, and is most closely related to Occitan, Francoprovençal and Gascon. It has approximately 62,000,000 speakers. In Europe, French is the official language in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco and Switzerland. Home speakers can also be found in Italy. It is one of the official languages of […]

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, e-learning was growing at a dramatic rate. But with work from home orders during the pandemic – and the strong preference of most employees to retain some of this flexibility moving forward – e-learning is going to be shaping the future of employee training for decades to come. This is […]

What is transcreation? In multilingual marketing, it’s a question you need to consider carefully if you want to achieve the results you’re looking for. Because transcreation – the creative translation of your marketing communications – is an incredibly powerful tool. It lets you form an incredibly powerful connection with new global audiences. Much better than […]

Today, the countries at the cutting edge of scientific research are the US, China, Germany, the UK, Japan, and France. When it comes to furthering scientific knowledge and cooperation, this can be a problem. Because English has been accepted as the language of science for well over a century. But that puts researchers – often […]

Netflix. Facebook. YouTube. Twitter. Some of the largest organisations in the world owe part of their success – indeed, ubiquity – to subtitles and subtitle translation. Imagine trying to watch any of Netflix’s excellent selection of Korean dramas without good subtitles. Think how many fewer – normally automatically muted – Facebook videos would get watched […]

What is Desktop Publishing? Often abbreviated as DTP, Desktop Publishing is the process that ensures the formatting and layout of your document are just right. This is particularly important when you’ve just had your content translated. Because your freshly translated brochure, website, book, presentation, or leaflet might suddenly have overflowing text, strangely-sized images, or a […]