Article in partnership with Day Translations. What’s the deal with subtitles in foreign movies and how they can help people learn a language? An article in The Conversation discussed the link between watching movies with subtitles and being a passive learner of a foreign language. It turns out it is not automatic that you will
Article in partnership with Day Translations. When travelling around Europe, one thing that is common to all countries is that their citizens are likely to be able to talk to visitors and tourists in a different language from their own. The European Union regularly publishes surveys on a number of topics, including languages, tracking trends
Article in partnership with Day Translations. What Country Has the Most Languages? When you search for the country that has the most official languages in the world, the answer is Papua New Guinea with 800 different official languages and 200 dialects. Even though this country has only 8 million inhabitants, each tribe lived for thousands
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. We have talked about European winter destinations for digital nomads before (see article), but it’s worth revisiting the topic again. At the time of writing, the cost of living crisis is affecting many people’s lives so the question is: does moving somewhere else in Europe help you save money
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. Is the concept of digital nomads evolving? Who is more likely to become a digital nomad? Where do digital nomads mostly come from? A survey published by Euronews tried to answer these questions after asking a sample of 1,200 digital nomads over the course of 2023. Who Is a
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