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Dec 2014
China Has Created the First Sign Language Video Dictionary
A local charity in Wuxi, a southern Chinese city in the Jiangsu province, has gotten the attention of national news last month after creating a Chinese sign language video dictionary. The video which is the first of its kind, made national headlines after becoming a hit online. Volunteers participated in the video dictionary which was […]
22
Dec 2014
One Language- Brits and Americans spell differently
Is it centre or center, litre or liter? Actually, depending on whichever side of the Atlantic Ocean you find yourself, either way of spelling the above words are classed as correct. But how can a mutual language shared between two nations seem so separated? Well in the case of Britain and America they can. There […]
18
Dec 2014
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Nov 2014
Do young people bother with learning foreign languages?
‘’To have another language is to have another soul’’, said Charlemagne. Languages open door to new horizons, allow you to meet diverse people and experience the world from a different angle. They can also most definitely create better job prospects, not only for working abroad, but also in the UK. The number of benefits speaking […]
18
Nov 2014
Professional Sport Translations
Football is popular in every corner of the world. From Asia to Europe, Africa and to America. People bond, fight, cry and laugh by watching 22 men and women run after a perfectly round object for 90 minutes. There isn’t another sport where different cultures and languages meet and mix together like in the world […]
13
Nov 2014
Bilingual speakers process information more efficiently
Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Houston have conducted a research, which shows that bilingual people are capable of processing information much faster. The study additionally shows that multi-lingual speakers are considerably better at filtering unnecessary information than single language speakers. According to the study, the brain function of single language speakers suggests […]