Langues, Traductions

Online translation tools

The free online translation is powered by Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Babylon Translator and other machine translation systems. Google Translate is a statistical multilingual machine-translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate written text from one language into another. Google translate supports 66 languages which makes 4290 language combinations. Microsoft Translator implements  machine translation platform to translate between 38 languages developed by Microsoft Research, as its backend translation software. Microsoft developed a translation portal as part of its Bing services to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages. When translating an entire web page, users are allowed to browse the original web page text and translation in parallel, supported by synchronized highlights, scrolling, navigation and language detection. Babylon Translator integrates Language Weaver's Enterprise Translation model that delivers high-speed automated translation… Lire la suite Online translation tools

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Language learning tips

There are many reasons to learn a foreign language, from working in another country to discovering your roots, through intellectual curiosity, travel, and communication. Which language should I learn? Once you have decided to learn a language, you may not be quite sure which language to choose. To some extent, your choice depends on your reasons for… Lire la suite Language learning tips

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Words of the World by Abram De Swaan

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The human species is divided into more than five thousand language groups that do not understand each other. And yet these groups constitute one coherent world language system, connected by multilingual speakers in a… Lire la suite Words of the World by Abram De Swaan