2019 ? International Year of Indigenous Languages

On 15 January 2019   /   News   /   Leave a comment
2019 ? International Year of Indigenous Languages

With the progress of globalisation, cultures unify more and more. This is especially visible in customs and holidays but also impacts on languages ? we learn the major ones, but forget about the ones that are spoken by a handful. Why are indigenous languages so important? As stated on the UN website ?languages play a crucial role in the daily lives of people, not only as a tool for communication, education, social integration and development, but also as a repository of each person?s unique identity, cultural history, traditions and memory.? This quote presents the micro- and macro-perspective on every single language spoken around the globe. There are roughly 7 thousand spoken languages and of these over 2.5 thousand endangered. We are standing on the verge of losing 5 thousand indigenous cultures spread over 90 countries ? preserving the languages they speak is one of the ways to raise awareness and

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How to start as a freelance translator. A webinar (18.12.18)

On 13 December 2018   /   News, Translations News, Workshops   /   Leave a comment

We would like to invite you to an exciting event in the history of eCORRECTOR ? our first webinar. It will take place on 18 December 2018 at noon (Warsaw time). We have teamed up with Smartcat to prepare a concise online workshop on how to start your career as a freelance translator. Many talented translators are not sure where to begin and think up possible scenarios long before obtaining a degree. So what will you do after graduating? Chances are you?ll soon find out that having a degree in translation isn?t enough to be a successful translator. As you already have the language skills, what you need are tools that will allow you to be competitive and efficient. You need to know how to optimise your workflow to do more in less time ? this can be achieved by the use various translation automation tools. Being up-to-date with technology

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Phonetic system of the English language

On 14 November 2018   /   News, Translations News   /   Leave a comment
Phonetic system of the English language

All non-native speakers of English try to work on their accents to sound as natural as possible. We usually choose to be more American or more British. Incidentally, there is no such thing as ?American accent? or ?British accent? as each area is in fact comprised of various regional phonetic systems. Therefore, we can learn to speak Standard English, so a dialect of the language as employed by the national norm. The standards Each language has a standard phonetic system which delineates the correct manner of pronouncing sounds, words and sentences. For Great Britain, the most well-known standard as Received Pronunciation (RP). According to some researchers, only a small percentage of native speakers employ that ? majority speaks with an English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish accent (bearing in mind they are internally diverse). RP is most often taught to non-native speakers. In the USA, we call it General American. The

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