Which languages should you teach your children to boost their career prospects?
Which languages should you teach your children to boost their career prospects?

CATEGORY / Languages

02/01/2019

Tomedes looks at which languages will most benefit our younger generations when it comes to preparing them for the world of work

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Is Romansh doomed to die out?
Is Romansh doomed to die out?

CATEGORY / Languages

19/12/2018

Tomedes takes a look at the Romansh language and considers its chances of survival when just 0.5% of Swiss people speak it

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Translation fun: the 10 most amusing English words
Translation fun: the 10 most amusing English words

CATEGORY / Languages

12/12/2018

Tomedes takes a look at some of the more light-hearted elements of the English language. Prepare to giggle and guffaw!

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The world's most endangered languages
The World's Most Endangered Languages

CATEGORY / Languages

05/12/2018

Professional translation agency Tomedes looks at which languages are the most endangered on the planet

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Let's celebrate indigenous languages!
Let’s celebrate indigenous languages!

CATEGORY / Languages

31/10/2018

Professional translation agency Tomedes looks at the value of indigenous languages, in advance of 2019 being the UN's Year of Indigenous Languages

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Halloween around the world – how tradition translates from one culture to another
Halloween around the world – how tradition translates from one culture to another

CATEGORY / Languages

03/10/2018

With the arrival of October each year comes thoughts of Halloween. Tomedes translation agency looks at how these translate from one country to another

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What has the United Nations done for the translation industry?
What has the United Nations done for the translation industry?

CATEGORY / Languages

19/09/2018

Professional translation company Tomedes looks at the topic of translation in the United Nations and that body's commitment to multilingualism

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18 famous translators throughout history — and what made them great
A montage of symbolic translation artifacts (a manuscript page, a printing press, a multilingual dictionary, and a modern laptop) representing the history of translation from antiquity to the present day

CATEGORY / Languages

12/09/2018

Throughout history, translators have done more than convert words from one language to another. They have shaped religions, sparked revolutions, built literatures, and transmitted knowledge across civilizations. The transmission of Greek philosophy to the Islamic world, the spread of Buddhism across East Asia, the Reformation, the European Renaissance, and the emergence of national literatures in dozens of languages — all of these transformative movements depended on translators whose names are far less well known than the ideas they carried.

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What does World Tourism Day mean for the translation industry?
What does World Tourism Day mean for the translation industry?

CATEGORY / Languages

29/08/2018

Professional translation company Tomedes considers the relationship between tourism and language and what World Tourism Day means for translators

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Why September is the perfect time to pick up new translation clients – and how to do so!
Why September is the perfect time to pick up new translation clients – and how to do so!

CATEGORY / Languages

23/08/2018

Professional translation agency Tomedes looks at how freelance translators can use September as the perfect time to pick up new translation clients

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