by Alpha Omega Translations | Aug 26, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan As a country populated by immigrants, the U.S. has become home for people from a diverse array of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Even before colonization by any European power, it was populated by over 500 different Native American...
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...
