With spring just around the corner, we’re here to share with you an exceptional and colorful celebration of life and new beginnings in India. The Holi festival, held in India…
Category: Culture & Traditions
How to call a waiter in different countries in Asia
Have you ever witnessed tourists being unconsciously rude to the waiters in your home country? Or the other way around – have you ever unintentionally offended a waiter, just because…
Yuki Matsuri – the coolest festival in Japan!
Winter has come to Japan, and a great deal of fun arrived with it. Contrary to the common tourist beliefs, Japan is charming not only in the spring — during…
Asia shows how different the beginning of the New Year can be!
We’ve already acquainted you with some fascinating Christmas traditions taking place in the continent of Asia, and today we’ve prepared something with that same spark of holiday spirit. We’ve engaged…
Inching our way into the peculiarities of Asian systems of measurement
Measurement units in the translation industry We might not pay a lot of attention to doing so, but we use vocabulary that relates to measurement very often in both our…
The Chinese dragon – an ancient protector of the Chinese people
China – a country of many impressions. When people refer to China, the things that usually come to mind are facts such as the population of the country, the difficulty…
The Four Great Classics of China – truly great reads with a tinge of ancient modernism
As autumn is already knocking on our doors I come with an exquisite list of must-reads for those who consider themselves fans of Eastern culture. How I discovered the Four…
Manga – a creative way to learn Japanese in Indonesia
We all know that Manga is one of Japan’s most popular genres, which is famous all over the world. An interesting Japanese occurrence that has its fans everywhere along with…
The Sun in Different Asian Cultures
June is hot and sunny and we are starting to think about vacations and beaches. And this is when, while staring at the bright blue sky, I got that small…
8 Interesting Words & Phrases of Asia
What’s fascinating to me the most about this phrase is its literal translation, which is, “Did you eat rice?” While recently doing some research on Asian Cultures, I came across some…
Asia on focus: A Story of The Chinese Dragon
Come with me in your imagination and let’s travel back in time to the very beginning – before humans and life on earth existed, and let’s witness the creation of…
Why Japanese repair with gold?
“Again we travel to the land of the rising sun.” Have you ever heard of the term “kintsugi”? Even Japanese beginners can easily dissect the word – “kin” meaning gold…
Asia on focus: Origami – the art of translating your thoughts
“You may wonder what the origami has in common with the translation industry…” The answer is pretty obvious – the message. The translation industry is helping to understand one language…