For the past 20 years, American, British and European peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan have communicated with the Afghan government and civilians by means of local interpreters. These interpreters have worked tirelessly since 2001, to not only help the troops achieve their goals, but to also afford the locals direct access to the foreign resources they …
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10 Quick Tips About Jamaican Patois 1. Jamaican Patois or Jamaican has long been regarded as a dialect. A simple definition of “dialect” by Merriam-Webster is “a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area and uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations.” 2. Some people see Jamaican as a …
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It’s the weekend and I’m at home flipping through various Netflix movies to see if anything catches my eye when the picture of two teenage girls with warm smiles grabs my attention. “Somewhere Between,” directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, is a documentary about four Chinese girls living with American adoptive parents. As I begin to …
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We were recently asked to translate three documents from English into thirteen languages, including: * Arabic * Amharic * Burmese * Chin * Farsi * French * Karen * Karenni * Nepali * Somali * Spanish * Swahili * Tigrinya Such a request is not unusual and whether or not the volume of the project …
by TLS Being multi-lingual may serve as an indicator that some translators and interpreters are immigrants who at one point or another, have had to face some of the very same issues in which they become professionally engaged. Translators and interpreters do well to pay close attention to matters relating to immigrants and immigration since, among other …
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