by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 26, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan The French spoken in the province of Quebec in Canada has long been an interesting topic for those who study or speak French. It has also been a cause for dispute over which French is “better”, which is ridiculous since no language or...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 26, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Galician is the language of Galicia, an autonomous community in the northwest of Spain, right above Portugal. It is part of the Ibero-Romance language family, along with Portuguese, Spanish, Asturian, and Aragonese. Like most other languages...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 26, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Thanks to Nelson Mandela, all of us know at least one word in Afrikaans: “apartheid”. Literally translated to English, it means “apart-hood”, and describes the type of government-endorsed racial segregation that existed in South Africa...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 19, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Mandinka, also known as Mandingo, is the native language of the Mandinka ethnic group of West Africa. It is spoken by 1.3 million people all over the world, and yet it isn’t a language that tends to be thought of even when discussing the...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 19, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Catalan is a language spoken mainly in Spain, particularly the region known as Catalonia, from where it gets its name. Depending on the area, Catalan is either only spoken at home, spoken at home and taught in school, or only spoken by older...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 19, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Portuguese was not the language of the land in Brazil until the Portuguese came over to claim it for their country, making it part of the Portuguese empire, in the early 1500s. Before that, the languages spoken there were mostly the...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 10, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Native English speakers tend to notice how many English words are used in other languages while ignoring the words they use everyday that were originally Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, and more. English is one of those languages that has no qualms...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 10, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan India is a country with such interesting history that it is definitely feasible that it would be home to many different languages. As of 2001, there are about 122 languages in India that are considered “major languages”, with over 1,500 other...
