A Polish ship on Anglo-lingual waters – lingual and cultural nuances in computer games
As everyone knows, a sense of humor is a topic of counterintuitive complexity and a strongly individual one. Words that are met with loud laughs and approbation during a house-party in a circle of closest friends, may often turn out to be embarrassing or inappropriate at a meeting with colleagues from work. This phenomenon also […]
Translation as a hobby and a job
My chosen field of study, Norwegian Scandinavian Studies, opens up various career opportunities. One of the most obvious is to work as a sworn translator in state institutions or freelance in the translation industry. As a person who values individuality and freedom of action, I am much more inclined towards the second possibility of a […]
The varieties of the German language
Language varieties are an integral part of nation’s linguistic identity. They don’t only testify to the linguistic richness of a country, but are evidence of the cultural richness of a nation. One of the languages with linguistic variants is German, which belongs to the Western group of Germanic languages. It’s one of the official languages […]
Dying languages
Ongoing globalisation is a process that has been caried out in the world for many years. With the help of technology, the unification of countries and the development of civilisation, our planet is becoming more and more a global village every day. We can write books and have very long discussions about the validity of […]
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese is an Asian language spoken by around 70 million people. It’s a language spoken in Vietnam as well as in the Cambodian and Vietnamese diaspora all over the world, for example in USA. The Vietnamese minority is quite big in Poland, that is why translations from and into Vietnamese are quite common. Vietnamese belongs […]
Development of the market for computer game translations
The coronavirus pandemic has led to huge losses in many economic and industrial sectors. Those who have suffered the most are the gastronomic and tourism sectors. Restaurant owners and travel agencies have been driven to a critical situation. However, there is one sector that has not only evaded loss due to its specificity, but has […]
Where does German come from?
The German language is one of the integral parts of our life whether we want it or not. From the first moments each of us comes into contact with our mother tongue, we acquire the basic rules for the correct articulation of individual sounds and our vocabulary expands over the years. One of the world’s […]
Polish language schools in different parts of the world
To say that the Polish language is a tough language to learn and use is a bit of an understatement. A more correct statement is to say that the Polish language is the hardest language in the world to learn written in the Latin alphabet. Undertaking the study of our native language is quite a […]
