Communicate With Right Words
Watching the recent closing ceremony Beijing Olympics made us realise the importance of communication in the right language. The french language was used at the end of the speech by Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the 29th Olympic Games to thank everyone. This made it even more impressive and memorable for all who watched the event on the 24 August 2008. We can all speak in our own language, but in order to bring about a closer world, we have got to let the world understand us! It’s time to take a check on how many languages you can speak.
read moreWhat Is Translation?
According to Wikipedia, the action of interpretation of the meaning of a text, and subsequent production of an equivalent text, also called a translation, that communicates the same message in another language. The text to be translated is called the source text, and the language it is to be translated into is called the target language. As a translator, you have to be a language expert in both the source and the target language, in order to understand fully what you need to translate, and what you have translated. Though there are different expressions to the same word, how you manage to...
read moreTranslating Your Message
Most people are only good in 1 language. With globalisation, and due to a “flat world” nowadays, you would need to bring your message across to not only your neighbours next to you, but also all the way down to the Antartic Polar Bears (i.e. if they can even read!) And what we are most afraid of is that our message gets misinterpreted along the way. Even passing a message from Person A to Person M gets distorted, what more can go wrong when the message is wrongly translated. Translation is a skill that not many people have. Although we understand several languages, that...
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