Unique Challenges Translating to South East Asian Languages

Languages of South East Asia and the Middle East in particular have a reputation for being significantly more difficult to translate due to substantial differences from other languages in terms of text, vocabulary and grammar.

How to Translate Metaphors and Idioms

Translators deal with a lot of challenges. Apart from making sure that text is grammatically correct and uses appropriate tone, they must also decide when and how to translate certain cultural aspects and linguistic nuances. This includes translating metaphors and idioms.

Choosing the Right Language Service Provider

When you find yourself looking for the right languages service provider, you’ll want to make sure that they can meet all of your expansion needs. Here are three key things to consider when you’re talking to LSPs:

Can you speak the language of AI?

AI has become a helpful resource to the language field, being used to help translation between languages, but can it replace humans?

A Dog and Cat discuss their "cultural differences"

CSOFTers Share Culture-Specific Words and Phrases

Translations need to encounter a layer of “cultural” translation. Beyond literally translating words or phrases, linguists must also be cultural experts who can examine how a specific group of people will respond to a given word or phrase. At CSOFT, we use cultural and subject matter experts to ensure that every translation is accurate.

Esperanto: The International Language

With the spread of English, many assumed that Esperanto would die out, yet today, because of the visibility it’s gained from the digital revolution, the language is still adding followers. The popular language-learning mobile application, Duolingo, added Esperanto to its catalog of languages in 2015, and it quickly gained more than 600,000 active users. Today, Esperanto is spoken by nearly 2 million people as a second language in 115 countries.

5 Amazing Facts about the Chinese Language

Anyone interested in learning more about China should begin with learning the language, as studying changes in the pronunciation, shape, and meaning of each Chinese character is a great lesson on ancient civilizations and cultures. To get started in your studies, here are five amazing facts about the language and its history.

Is Balto-Slavic a Real Language?

Balto-Slavic refers to the common linguistic ancestor shared by the two languages, but is not a language spoken in the three Baltic States.

How to Leverage Machine Translation

CSOFT has always been excited to debate the topic of man vs. machine translation, and to discuss its implications for businesses and translators alike. In today’s global world, machine translation has become a common aspect in both businesses and daily life. For people travelingMachine Translation abroad, for example, translation apps — which are based on machine translation — are the fastest and most cost effective solution for traversing foreign lands.

Common Problems with Machine Translation

3 Common Problems Of Machine Translation

On January 7th, 1954, a massive IBM computer, dubbed the “polyglot brainchild”, translated over sixty sentences from Russian to English. This computer, the IBM 701, marked the first publicly announced instance of machine translation. Lauded as a miracle and a massive advancement in the fields of both computer science and linguistics, this achievement sparked researchers […]

Universal Body Language

Without speaking a word, humans are able to convey a wide array of emotions thanks to body language. It is a universal mode of communication that goes beyond verbal language to reveal people’s attitude and feelings. From every country to every tribe, there are 6 universal non-verbal expressions that can be easily identified: happiness, sadness, […]