The Banipal Trust has announced the winner of the annual Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. The award has been won by Roger Allen for this translation of A Muslim Suicide. The novel was originally written by Bensalem Himmich. Allen's translation of the novel was released this year in May by Syracuse University Press. Literature.
Scottish primary school children will be taught three languages in newly announced plans by the Scottish Government. The announcement comes as the Government allegedly recognises that global trade requires workers to speak more than just English. Ministers of the Scottish Parliament heard plans that the Government has set aside £4 million earmarked for a scheme to ensure Scotland's economy does not suffer as a result of poor language skills.
The first comprehensive translation of the Indian epic "The Ramayana" from Sanskrit to Polish was finally completed this week. "The Ramayana" The substantial feat was achieved by Janusz Krzyzowski, chairman of the India-Poland Cultural Committee. "The Ramayana" centres on the incredible adventurers of Rama, an avatar of Hindu God Vishnu (the second God in the Hindu triumvirate of Brahman, Vishnu and Shiva), after his wife has been kidnapped by Ravana, King of Sri Lanka.
Ambitious British business leaders are bracing themselves for something truly great next year. After the spectacular success of London 2012, the eyes of the world will once again be keenly focused on Great Britain next summer, when Liverpool hosts the International Festival for Business (IFB), the city's very own "Enterprise Olympiad".
The German Book Office's (GBO) first ever translation competition has been won by Kurt Beals, who was awarded a $600 commission to translate the first 15 pages of Nora Bossong's novel "Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung" into English. Ethos of the competition The competition launched in autumn 2012 in a joint attempt by the GBO and the Goethe-Institut's New York offices to bolster German-language translations in the United States.
The internet is evolving language at a faster pace than Webster's American dictionary did in 1814.The internet is a huge resource, currently thought to hold some 4.5 billion webpages worldwide, and English has become a common language for global users. Linguists predict that in 10 years the language will continue dominate the internet, even among those whose native tongue is not English.
If there is one factor that has the largest bearing on communications and marketing overseas, then it is of course language. This article is based on a report for the UK Trade and Investment, entitled "An evaluation of the UKTI White Label Export Guide," written by Jurga Zilinskiene, managing director of Today Translation Ltd.
Losing Our World's Languages At Today Translations we have taken a serious interest in the way language is used around the world and how it evolved to be so. When we recently learned that every 14 days a language dies we were shocked to say the least and even more devastated to hear that by 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth many of them not yet recorded may disappear
Foreign footballers from outside the EU will be barred from joining Premier League clubs from October unless they can speak simple English under new immigration rules. The English test forms part of a points-based system that will cut the number of immigrants entering Britain by about 20,000 a year. But ministers have decided to exempt performers at specific festivals, including Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Glastonbury, Wimbledon and the London Marathon.
Being able to sell to a diverse customer base is one thing, but it's just the first step in an ongoing process of fostering successful customer interactions if winning loyalty is your goal. It might be daunting to engage call center representatives with language translator skills, but many customers are thrilled to find support information in their native tongue online. Self-service is the ticket.
