May 15 2012
How do you say “Handball” in French when watching a football match?
French football fans use to cry : “Main!” or “Il y a main!” when a football player hits the ball with its hand.
Visit http://www.star-ts.com/free-football-translation for plenty of football translations from English to Polish and over 10 other languages.
Plus, you can downlaod and print your EURO 2012 wallchart.
Apr 16 2012
Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in business after english
Mandarin is the official spoken language in China. It is spoken by 845 million people. According to Bloomberg Rankings, it is now scored highest in a ranking of languages for business usefulness, excluding English.
The Rankings takes into account:
-the number of speakers,
-the number of countries where the language is official,
-economical rates,
-educational rates…
Doing business in Asia will call more and more for language abilities to be successful in non-English-speaking countries. It provides advantages by being closer to the culture and habits and it also favors connections in a faster and more complex business environment.
French with 68 million speakers and Arabic with 221 speakers are ranked second and third. Spanish came in fourth ranking with 329 speakers worldwide.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Mandarin and Cantonese are often confused when people request translation services for China. It is easy to confuse them as the written form can be different depending on the country you are in. We’ve produced a simple table explaining the differences between Chinese languages and dialects for you.
Mar 13 2012
As we are midway through Seachtain Na Gaeilge we thought we’d ask – just how popular is Irish?
STAR as a translation company we provide translation in over 45 languages including Irish from our offices here in Dublin 3.
We did an analysis of all our translation for 2011 and are happy to publish the results for our Irish readers.
Top 10 Languages 2011
As you might imagine our closest international neighbours are top with German and French being the most popular languages we translated last year.
Irish follows closely at number 3. Into English translation is number 4 (from various languages).
Our Japanese teams are kept very busy at number 5. Japanese is very specialised and the quality demand of the market is exceptionally high.
An interesting one in the mix is Swedish which comes in at number 8 in the list. Maybe this is the IKEA influence in Ireland.
By STAR Translation Services
