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For Bilingual Folks, Both Languages Always Present | Translation Net

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Insights into the world of technology and languages. For Bilingual Folks, Both Languages Always Present. September 1, 2009. Bilingual people are unable to completely switch off their second language, even when reading in their native language, new research suggests. Researchers from Ghent University in Belgium had 45 college students who spoke Dutch as their native language and English as a second language read several sentences written in Dutch. For example, the researchers found that in the sentence &#...

Lack of foreign language skills will hold back the UK economy | Translation Net

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Insights into the world of technology and languages. Lack of foreign language skills will hold back the UK economy. September 14, 2009. The UK will be held back as it seeks to emerge from recession unless it boosts the number of language graduates, campaigners say. Cilt chief executive Kathryn Board said: “English is one of the great global languages but it will only take us so far. In 1997, 71% of England’s GCSE pupils took a foreign language, last year the rate was down to 44%. For the most popular for...

Hi tech PDA’s and smartphones tap the translation market.. | Translation Net

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Insights into the world of technology and languages. Hi tech PDA’s and smartphones tap the translation market. September 25, 2009. With more language translation applications becoming available on mobile phones, business travelers can now rely on their handsets instead of translation guides when they visit a foreign country, said mobile manufacturers. Similar to Web-based translation portals, mobile translation applications offer a number of useful features, including speech generation–where text i...

Language skills lead to a colourful career | Translation Net

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Insights into the world of technology and languages. Language skills lead to a colourful career. September 7, 2009. Language is one of the most powerful communication tools available to an individual today. With the emerging globalisation trend, an individual who has knowledge of more than one language has a number of advantages to his/her credit. Careers nowadays not only ask for languages as a primary skill, but occasionally as a secondary skill as well. Interpreters at international conferences need p...

How Languages Shift in Popularity Over the years | Translation Net

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Insights into the world of technology and languages. How Languages Shift in Popularity Over the years. September 18, 2009. Languages change in importance over time it wasn’t all that long ago that the global lingua franca was, well, French. As this first decade of the new millennium draws to a close, Spanish is on its way to becoming a native language to the United States, and Chinese and Arabic have found themselves near the top of the international relevance scale. Languages like Chinese and Arabic mig...