Unveiling the Key Differences Between Brazilian and European Portuguese

About 300 million people around the world speak Portuguese, a language that originated in a relatively small southwestern European country. The population of Portugal today is only just over 10 million, greatly exceeded by the 200 million Portuguese speakers in Brazil as well as another 60 million more in parts of Africa and the Portuguese-speaking […]
The Role of Korean Translators in Ensuring Effective Global Business Communication

South Korea is a modern, affluent, industrialized society. There is a huge Korean market with massive potential for continued growth in trade with the outside world. The major obstacle for Korean and foreign businesses is the fact that Koreans speak Korean, a language that is hard for non-Koreans to learn and understand, making effective business […]
What are the Best Languages to Learn for Your Career?

Learning a second language varies from something which is absolutely essential (and often second nature, something that seems as straightforward as learning one’s own native, or parental, language) to something which is totally unimportant, or just a nice-to-have. In many parts of the world, people just have to learn more than one language, because the […]
Why Learn Thai? 5 Great Reasons Why It’s Worth Learning the Thai Language

The Thai language is the official language of Thailand and so used in everyday use by around 69 million people in this southeastern Asian nation. Thai is actually the most common dialect used by people in eastern and central Thailand. There are many different dialects of Thai as well as languages used by ethnic minorities […]
Languages of Romania : What Languages are Spoken in Romania?

Romania! Even those who have never been to Romania or Eastern Europe are familiar with the Dracula stories that were based in the Romanian region of Transylvania. Romania is a country steeped in history, wedged amongst the diverse countries of Eastern Europe, flanked on one side by the Black Sea and harboring the River Danube […]
10 Important Facts About the Chinese Language

China has become one of the most important nations in the world, economically and politically. Its manufactured goods provide a large percentage of the world’s consumer needs and much of the developed world’s economy is reliant on a buoyant Chinese economy. For this reason, the Chinese language, called Mandarin, has become one of the most […]
Common Problems of English to Indonesian Translation

Introduction Indonesian, or Bahasa Indonesia, is the official language of Indonesia, a nation of 250 million people. It is an Austronesian language based on the Malay language spoken in the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Borneo and remains not only the only official language in Indonesia but the lingua franca of a culturally and geographically diverse […]
Japanese vs Korean vs Chinese: Which is the Most Difficult Language to Learn?

Overview of the Japanese language Japanese is spoken by 130 million people. This makes it the 9th most spoken language by native speakers. The Japanese language is viewed as being one of the hardest languages for Americans to learn but this isn’t the case for Chinese speakers. Japanese is difficult for English speakers to learn […]
Business Language and How English is Used in Business Communication Today

What is business language? Business language is the language used in business such as in commerce, international trade, insurance, and banking. It entails using specific vocabulary and grammatical structures and clearly communicating clearly and concisely is vital in business communication. The clarity in business writing When using a language in a business context, it is […]
Benefits of Learning Spanish

It’s one of the best languages to learn for traveling! In 2016, there were 437 million people who spoke Spanish around the world. That’s in fact 17 percent of the entire world’s population. Also, Spanish is the official language or national language of twenty-one countries. In North and South America, 418 million people speak Spanish; […]