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When speaking of grammatical genders, one might wonder what grammar has to do with sex. Not much, to be honest. The original meaning of ‘gender’ was ‘race’, ‘type’ or ‘kind’

The Oxford comma is an optional comma that clarifies the meaning of a sentence, and is also known as the serial or Harvard comma.

The rules of punctuation vary greatly between languages.

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...

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 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.

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

At TOPPAN Digital Language, the confidentiality of your documents is top priority. Our Secure Translation Tool houses sensitive documents in a highly secure online translation environment and eliminates downloads.

Global business is tough to manage. One part that needs careful consideration is the localisation of marketing, promotional, and brand-related content. Marketing translation mistakes can result in your product or service no being well received in new markets.

LinkedIn has recently announced the launching of a Japanese language version of its professional social networking website.