Friday, January 20th, 2012
Translators and Project Managers (PMs) are just like fish and chips: one won’t go without the other. Here’s a short guide on how to enjoy this recipe without giving yourself indigestion!
Rather than writing about what freelancers love or hate (or a similar rant from the Project Manager’s perspective), it’s possibly more useful for everybody to know what elements link translators and agencies together so tightly, and how they can work better together. (more…)
Tags: freelance translators, French translation, Italian, Italian translation, Project Management, Spanish translation
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
The latest data from Internet World Stats reveals that Italian has been knocked out of the Top 10 internet languages and replaced with Korean. English remains the most popular language of the Internet at 29% of all web content, with Chinese firmly in second place at 20%. But English has fallen significantly from its position in 2000, when it accounted for 68% of all internet users. Spanish, Chinese and Arabic continue to grow at a faster rate than English.
The remaining 8 top languages are all below 10%, with Arabic and Russian seeing the greatest growth since 2000. Perhaps predictably, as a percentage of language speakers who use the internet, Japan has the highest penetration wish a massive 75% of Japanese speakers accessing the web. German comes a close second with 68%, but the rest of the world has some way to go to catch up.
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Tags: Arabic, Chinese, dollar, english, French, German, internet, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, sterling
Posted in Facts and Funnies, International Trade, Newsletter, Serious Business, Surviving the Recession, The Internet, UK News, US News, Web-Translations | 2 Comments »
Translators and Project Managers (PMs) are just like fish and chips: one won’t go without the other. Here’s a short guide on how to enjoy this recipe without giving yourself indigestion!