Follow Ashley on Twitter or by visiting her website here. Enjoy!   Scotland’s linguistic landscape – Scottish Standard English and Scots Do you know your language varieties from your languages? Your dipthongs from your monopthongs? The difference between code-switching and bilingualism? Scotland’s linguistic landscape, made up predominantly of the language variety that is Scottish Standard […]

You can follow Ashley on her on Twitter or by visiting her website here. Enjoy!   What Makes Scots, Scots… Scots is the Germanic language spoken in Scotland. It is closely related to English – both developed from the same Anglo-Saxon ancestor language – as well as to other West Germanic languages, such as German […]

The impact of COVID-19 on cultures around the world has been severe and, in some cases, devastating. Festival cancellations and other repercussions on the tourism sector are more obvious, than other, less prominent consequences of the pandemic. Today, we’ll talk about how COVID-19 is changing cultures all over the world. We’ll look at how Covid […]

The way companies approach internationalization process has changed drastically over the last decade. Just 10 years ago, the ‘one-fits-all’ method was generally considered to be a good standard across majority of business sectors. Companies and organizations believed, that because a campaign worked well in one market, it would also naturally work equally well elsewhere, even […]

A marketing campaign can often ‘make or break’ a product. In fact, it can sometimes ‘make or break’ an entire brand. PR and marketing experts habitually say that it doesn’t really matter how good or bad your product is, the only thing that truly matters is how you present it to the potential customer. Although […]

What are the most difficult document types to translate?  The complexities of language make professional translations more difficult than most monolingual speakers can often appreciate. Understanding the rules of language is only the very first hurdle qualified linguists must master. The next challenge is to fully understand not only the speaking habits, culture and social […]

9 Interesting Facts About Language Diversity There are over 7,000 languages in the world today and professional translators play an important role not only in the day to day activities and business support, but also in preserving the heritage of cultures and languages. Very often, dominant languages are endangering many indigenous forms of communication. In […]

Translation Agencies can offer your business more than just translations In today’s globalising world, some of the fastest growing and top translation agencies in the United Kingdom offer their customers a wide range of language services in order to deliver high-quality results. Interpreting and translating are only two aspects of what language agencies can, and should, […]

Can Marketing translations help your business? To succeed in a global economy, multi-national businesses face a number of internal and external challenges. The workforce is often multi-national and foreign markets need to be approached in the language of the native audience. It is common for international businesses to approach such challenges by implementing a multi-language structure, […]

Multilingual communities and global businesses have increased the demands of legal departments exponentially in the last couple of decades. As more small businesses reach out to international audiences, caseloads begin to pile up. Law firms not only rely on language translation agencies and professional legal translators to produce high-quality and accurate content within fast turnaround […]