Some people claim they are slaves to fashion. Recently, Spanish fashion retailer Mango was forced to apologise after they took the saying too far by advertising "Slave style" jewellery on their website. The two bracelets and a necklace were removed after Change.org launched a petition titled "Slavery Is Not Fashion" in regards to the jewellery bearing the description "Esclave," meaning "Slave" in French.
In the English speaking world, foreign language films have traditionally been restricted to the realm of film buffs. However, with the runaway French hit Amour - a co-production between leading French, German and Austrian companies - receiving the Oscar for best foreign language film, could we finally be witnessing the golden age of subtitled films?
Today Translations' founder and MD, Jurga Zilinskiene, and advisory board member, David Clarke, were honoured to be invited to the Mane Chance Sanctuary fundraiser at Koffmann's restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, this week. This wonderful charity cares for ill, abused and abandoned horses and animals, providing shelter, rehabilitation, rehoming and long-term care
Language is the skeleton of every society. Understanding each other is essential to everyday living, and it is very easy to take this for granted. That is, until we find ourselves in a different country, where language can become a barrier rather than a benefit. But what if language not only enables our speech, but also determines our future? Speak all about it!
Today Translations CEO Jurga Zilinskiene has been nominated as one of the top business personalities and entrepreneurs in her native Lithuania. The media project, called "Yra šalis," commended and nominated Zilinskiene for her business achievements and for promoting Lithuania's position in international business. You can vote for her by clicking here and pressing on the thumbs up button. You don't need to register to vote, and can do so once per day.
Anyone who has ever watched an episode of Star Trek would no doubt have marveled at William Shatner's Universal Translator device. The cult television show allowed its characters to communicate seamlessly with alien species using a simple device; it was devices and ideas like this that kept the sci-fi audience hooked. Well, thanks to South African based software developer and translation expert Dwayne Bailey, the Universal Translator may no longer be the stuff of fiction.
Following Google's recent release of solutions that allow uploaders to easily translate closed captions for their videos, the search giant last week announced its partnership with two translation firms in a bid to further enhance its multilingual offerings. Google bought YouTube in 2006 and has since grown the website to be the most popular online video sharing platform.
A recent study commissioned by the Department for Education in the UK has found that English pupils are among the worst performers in regard to learning a foreign language. The report, carried out by the National Foundation for Education Research, analysed the language skills in fourteen European countries, looking at a cross section of pupils based upon economic, social and cultural indicators.
The rise of China, its cultural hegemony and Mandarin tongue might have taken its first direct victim, the language of William Shakespeare and global popularity and appeal of the English tongue.According to BBC News, for the first time ever, the dominance of English is being challenged in many of the South East Asian economies, such as Singapore.
At Today Translations, we certainly know how to inaugurate a new office space. February finally saw the completion of the new office floor and with it the Josephine Baker Music Room - a creative space that seeks to inspire the artistic and creative merits of translation and linguistics.
