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Cyber security is currently big news. Reports are published on a weekly basis describing cyber criminals’ attempts to access the personal details of internet users held within the databases of high-profile internet organisations.

Light Warlpiri, a newly emerged mixed language that is spoken in a remote Indigenous community in northern Australia, has been discovered.

Have you ever wondered why there are three different concepts for one word in the English language, for instance weird, odd and strange? This is because native and foreign terms co-exist in English: weird derives from Old English, odd from Old Norse and strange from Old French.

It is impossible to provide an accurate word count for the English language. However, it is safe to say that The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 300,000 entries. According to a recently conducted study by The Economist...

6 Tips For Global eCommerce Success. Many UK online businesses are becoming increasing reliant on global demand to increase profitability.

The German language, well known for its long words, has decided that it will no longer include its longest word in its lexicon.

The question of where language comes from has been an interesting, yet controversial issue for many centuries. There are two dominant theories on how different languages lead their speakers to contrasting thoughts and perceptions:

Clients witnessed a 20% increase in conversion when landing pages and ads were translated into the local language and a staggering 70% when their client’s websites were fully localised.

Microsoft Adds Klingon to Bing Translator. Microsoft has added the fictional language of Klingon to their Bing Translator machine translation tool.

The Festival De Cannes will start in less than two weeks and we thought it would be interesting to conduct some research into the best constructed languages in films and TV.

Google Translate has announced that it has added five new to its translation tool, taking the total up to 70 languages.

A research team led by Mark Pagel at the University of Reading in the UK claims to have identified 23 “ultraconserved words”. They concluded that these words have remained largely unchanged for up to 15,000 years.

A British holiday-maker on a trip to Poland was horrified to find that one of the dishes on his menu was rather unappetising.

It is no exaggeration to say that knowing a second language, a foreign language, is more significant and perhaps more useful that it has even been in the history of humankind.

Multilingual Social Media in Melbourne. Simon Jackson, who works at ESRI Australia, a provider of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, has recreated the study focusing on the Australian city of Melbourne.

The world’s largest furniture retailer IKEA caused controversy this week: the pillow case Gosa Raps translates into English ‘cuddle rape’ when using Google Translate.

TranslateMedia has some tips on how to better manage international search marketing campaigns.

If your organisation is creating communications intended for a global audience, you need a professional translator.

Your international marketing campaign begins with laying your sites on new target markets for your product.

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