TRANSLIT Blog
Only 44 days left and then the most beautiful time of the year is here. All the chains of lights and the cinnamon smell all over the world. It couldn’t be better. No matter what, on Christmas all kind of people celebrate together and there is much more love and peace compared to the rest […]
The weather of Ireland If you talk to people who don’t live in a country such as England or Ireland, they are always tell you that the weather is bad. But is it really the truth what they say about the weather in Ireland or England? I have been to Ireland for almost 3 months
Say it in Neapolitan! Neapolitan or Napolitano is the language of most of the southern continental Italy, including the city of Naples. It is not named after the city, but after the Kingdom of Naples, which once covered most of this area and of which Naples was the capital. On October 14, 2008 a law
Is it true that everyone who lives in Bavaria, Germany is wearing a ‘Lederhosn’ or a ‘Dirndl’ all the time? Or that every person who is born in Bavaria is playing a musical instrument? But the fact that all Bavarian people are supporting the regional football team Bavarian Munich has to be true, right? And
Never before estimates for the number of refugees trying to arrive in Europe have been as mutable as today. Recent swifts in international policies, such as the closing of borders in many countries, might influence the number of incomings. During the first quarter of 2015, 185 000 first time asylum seekers applied for protection in
Some facts and statistics about Refugees and Asylum seekers Read More »
Literature translators can sometimes be considered one of the least appreciated professions in the world. We read foreign books and praise the author for his style of writing while in reality we are reading the effect of somebody else’s hard work – a translator whose name we usually do not notice, even if it appears
The Spicy City Bier, Lederhosn, Weisswurst – Germany. Ever since Germany was officially reunited in 1990, stereotypes of beer-drinking, sausage eating, football loving, sometimes seemingly rude and direct speaking blonde-haired people, who all live in Munich or Berlin and using unnecessary complex sentence structures, have always been a constant in the international mind. It must
Viele Studenten stellen sich diese Frage: welche sind die schwierigsten Sprachen zu erlernen? Eine offizielle Rangliste von denen existiert leider nicht. Nichtsdestotrotz wurden viele Forschungen uber dieses Thema betrieben und dazu existieren zahlreiche Webseiten und Publikationen, die sich mit dieser Frage beschaftigen. Naturlich spielt die eigene Muttersprache eine wichtige Rolle in diesem Bereich. Es ist
Pronto tendremos en las grandes pantallas la ultima entrega de la aclamada saga Mad Max y por ello en Translit hemos decidido dedicar un articulo de Lost in translation al mundo de la ciencia ficcion y, como no al uso del lenguaje en dichas peliculas. En la ciencia ficcion hasta los mas peque De ese
Quando un documento audiovisivo, un film, un telefilm, un documentario o come in questo caso un cartone animato, deve essere adattato per raggiungere paesi linguisticamente e culturalmente differenti da quelli per i quali e stato realizzato, la traduzione gioca un ruolo fondamentale sia nella diffusione sia nel successo del documento. Tuttavia, la traduzione audiovisiva non
