Article in partnership with Day Translations. How Many Native American Languages Are there? According to Census data released by the United States Census Bureau in 2010, there are 169 native American languages, out of a total of 381 non-English languages in the country. At that time, 227 million Americans could only speak English as their
Article in partnership with Day Translations. Will human translators ever become obsolete? Will learning a new language become unnecessary in the future? Will we be able to completely rely on machine translation and trust its accuracy? At present a large proportion of the world population speaks English and a vast amount of online information is
We have invited a researcher from Tallinn University, Estonia, Kadri Koor, to share about her project on digital nomads. Digital nomads are a rapidly growing and evolving group of professionals who live and work in the digital age. Digital nomads are people who have adopted a lifestyle where they are not tied to a specific
Article in partnership with Day Translations. Even though American English is the official language in the United States, if we consider this continent’s history of immigration we soon discover that there is a variety of languages being spoken in every State. Having said that, in a theoretical scenario where you are planing to travel to
Article in partnership with Day Translations. Portugal decided to change its tax rules for digital nomads such as non-EU foreign investors (source: Fortune). For many years Portugal has been one of the favourite European destinations for digital nomads and remote workers for a number of reasons, mainly the favourable weather and the high quality of
In 2023 the professional networking social platform LinkedIn launched a new type of content to encourage more engagement among users. These articles are called ‘collaborative articles’ and are AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated. They are accompanied by an invitation or prompt at the end of each paragraph to contribute thoughts and opinions in the comments. This phenomenon
Article in partnership with Day Translations. I was reading an article from El Pais, English edition, and was fascinated by the topic of Spanglish. The article delved into the quirky and sometimes puzzling mix of Spanish and English being spoken in large metropolitan areas in the United States such as Miami, Los Angeles and New
Article in partnership with Day Translations. If you ever listen to Hard Fork, the podcast from The New York Times about technology trends, you may have heard some experiments that the hosts did by digitising and manipulating their voices using AI tools. One of these tools is Hey Gen, a website that converts short spoken
Article in partnership with Day Translations. The Day Awards are an annual event recognising the work of language professionals around the world, organised by Day Translations. As President Sean Hopwood said in his introduction speech, even with the emergence of AI tools in translation, the human touch is invaluable. This is why the Day Awards
Article in partnership with Day Translations. Day Translations marks International Translation Day each year with its Day Awards, honouring the work of professional translators and intepreters. Do you know why we started celebrating International Translation Day? Brief History of International Translation Day In 2017 the United Nations declared by resolution that the 30th September is