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West African Pidgin is Thriving
27/09/2018According to the BBC, who launched a radio service of English-based pidgin for West and Central Africa, a year ago – the language is “thriving”. “News Pidgin” now reaches a weekly audience of 7.5 million people in Nigeria and around the world on radio, online, Facebook and Instagram. Even though pidgin is not an official language or even recognised…
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Hausa Language Translators Wrestle with Censorship Board
19/09/2015In Nigeria, Hausa language translators and the Kano Censorship Board are tied in a struggle over the rights to India-Hausa movies. The Board accused the translators as not having the copyright to allow them to translate the latest cinema from Bollywood. What are India-Hausa movies? Indian-Hausa or India-Hausa movies are a fascinating Nigerian product of…
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Is there a difference between French and African French?
11/09/2015We do a lot of translation work with French. Many new clients that come to us for work involving French usually do so having seen poor results previously when using other translation solutions. There is a general assumption within and without the translation industry that you can use any French translator to deal with documents…
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US Army Invests in African Language Translation Device
08/08/2015Interesting news from the US Army that it is currently developing a handheld translation device that can be used by soldiers in in foreign countries, starting with Africa. According to an article from army.mil, the device, named SQ.410 Translation System, currently works with nine languages. It is worn on a soldier’s chest and can be used without a…
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App Translates between South Africa’s 11 Languages
18/03/2014South Africa is the home of eleven different official languages. As you can image, this can lead to misunderstands and sticky situations. This is why a new, multilingual app has been launched to make communication between the speakers of all these different languages a little easier. Website Enca gives account of a new mobile application….
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Translators Without Borders Project Uses Wikimedia to Translate Medical Texts
11/02/2014A new Wikimedia project has enabled Translators without Borders to widen its programmes concerning humanitarian subjects. In an article on HumanIpo , Chris Udemans informs us about the latest developments within the Translators without Borders (Twb) organisation. According to Udemans, TwB translated over 14 million words in the last four years alone. These translations were…
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10 Reasons to Avoid Machine Translations
28/01/2014In this day and age, businesses deal with companies from all over the world and as a direct result this means that they deal in a wide range of languages. Translation is therefore extremely important in the 21st century business world. There is no point in having a website that overseas visitors cannot understand and…
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