by Alpha Omega Translations | Feb 17, 2016 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Recently, the French language council announced that spelling changes to the language will be put into effect in time for the upcoming school year. The council, Académie Française, proposed changes to about 2,400 words, which range from removing...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Feb 17, 2016 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Bulgarian, the official language of Bulgaria, is spoken in a few other countries besides its namesake. Turkey, Greece, Serbia, and Albania are just a few of the countries where it is spoken. It is an Indo-European language, part of the Slavic...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Feb 17, 2016 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan On the east coast of Africa, in the African Great Lakes region, lies the United Republic of Tanzania. It is the home of the highest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro, as well as being among the poorest countries in the world. It is very diverse,...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Feb 17, 2016 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Iceland is known for glaciers, seasonal periods of total darkness and the opposite, and for a particularly eccentric musician. It isn’t a country that tends to come up in international news, as it has a fairly stable economy and hasn’t been...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Feb 2, 2016 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan When we think about Jamaica, we don’t tend to think about what languages are spoken there, because one of them is one that can be more or less easily understood by anyone who speaks English quite well. We tend to think more about the famous...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Feb 2, 2016 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan For those who aren’t familiar with it, Sanskrit is the main liturgical language of Hinduism and used to be the lingua franca that helped all of the different regions of Greater India communicate with each other. Most of the greatest literary...
