by Alpha Omega Translations | Jul 6, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan If you have ever talked to someone in English whose native tongue is a Scandinavian language, you probably noticed that they speak almost perfect English. The same thing happens with native German speakers, as German is very similar to English,...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Jun 1, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sara-Claire Jordan The Romani people are an extremely interesting group, who are found mostly throughout Europe, but also in the Americas. You may know them as “gypsies”, a term that is a bit out of date now. The word “gypsy” originally comes from the Greek word...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Nov 26, 2013 | Foreign Language
Any image of the Ice Age gives us a wizened earth, barren and stony, abdicated to the powerful and relentless freezing of the poles. A few of these glaciers, silently introduced between high and mighty cliffs where lies modern day Scandinavia, would alter the...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Nov 19, 2013 | Foreign Language
During Roman conquest the Latin language became widespread in the region that includes present-day Europe and the Mediterranean basin, and so overlapped pre-existing languages, called substrata languages. This dominance was to be tested by subsequent barbarian...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Nov 15, 2013 | Foreign Language
Archipelagos reserve interesting anthropological surprises. One such surprise is the existence of a distinct minority group living in Japan, a society known for its hegemony. They are called Ainu, number around 15,000 and occupy, for the most part, Hokkaido, a...
