Illustration by Minna Sundberg Lynsey Chutel is a reporter for Quartz, covering Africa in the 21st century, touching on technology, gender and politics. She recently published this article in which she explains how French is now the fifth most spoken language in the world, thanks to Africans. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make […]

Gino Diño, Content strategy expert and Online Editor for Slator, wrote the following article in which he explains how machine translation technology has run into a potentially delicate issue: gender bias. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. In November 2018, mainstream news media reported that Google’s […]

Image by freepik.com The following fascinating article appears in the print edition of the September 3, 2018, issue of The New Yorker, with the headline “Maltese for Beginners.” The author, Judith Thurman began contributing to The New Yorker in 1987, and became a staff writer in 2000. She is the author of “Isak Dinesen: The […]

Nazar Abbas Photography / Getty Emma Woollacott, Technology of Business Reporter for the BBC, recently published the following article on translation apps. In it, Emma explains how machines are getting better at untangling foreign languages, but translation mistakes persist. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. Translation […]

“WALL-E” – Disney / Pixar Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent for the BBC wrote the following article regarding translation automation and the quality of Welsh translations using Google Translate. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. Translation automation is amazing technology – put a sentence in a box […]

Mark Smith, Technology of Business reporter for the BBC wrote the following article in which he talks about the risks of auto translation and machine-translation solutions. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. Imagine a far flung land where you can catch a ride from the Jackie […]

The following article was written by Kim Wallmach, Director of the Language Center at Stellenbosch University. In this article Kim Wallmach explains why the United Nations marks International Translation Day every year to honor the work of language professionals. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. Why […]

The BBC’s Yemisi Adegoke recently published the following fascinating story about a Nigerian village where men and women do not speak the same languages. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. In Ubang, a farming community in southern Nigeria, men and women say they speak different languages. […]

Jacklyn Janeksela, a freelance writer, journalist and linguist, wrote the following article for the BBC. She describes why the Czech language owes its survival to puppetry. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. “I entered a puppet shop in Prague and peered towards the back corner into […]

Tessa Wong, from BBC News in Singapore, published the following article. She explains how a Singaporean linguist is hoping he can revive a dying language spoken by Portuguese Eurasians, a minority group who arrived in Singapore in the 16th Century. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. […]