The Golden Week in Japan
From the 29th of April to the 5th of May each year, Japan and its citizens celebrate “Golden Week”. This period of festivities includes four… Read More »The Golden Week in Japan
Languages of Asia
The Issues With Machine Dubbing For Asian Languages
Although dubbing in film and television has been around since the 1950s, machine dubbing is a much more recent phenomenon. There’s been a massive proliferation… Read More »The Issues With Machine Dubbing For Asian Languages
Korean Webtoons and Their Growing Popularity
Western readers who grew up with comic books will surely remember the DC and Marvel superheroes that they grew up with, which have subsequently been… Read More »Korean Webtoons and Their Growing Popularity
Introduction of Context-Awareness in NMT for Korean
Neural Machine Translation is the latest technology in the world of automated translation, but it still has its limitations, especially when it comes down to… Read More »Introduction of Context-Awareness in NMT for Korean
Vietnamese in the US
The Vietnamese community is the fourth-largest Asian community in the US. The countries share a rich history but there are also several important linguistic considerations… Read More »Vietnamese in the US
Word Count for Japanese for Project Managers
For three years in the translation industry, I learned a trick or two on the peculiarities of working with Asian languages. Sometimes my quest for… Read More »Word Count for Japanese for Project Managers
NLP for Burmese and Machine Translation Difficulties
The necessity of machine translation (MT) and natural language processing (NLP) for Burmese grew several decades ago as Myanmar was voted and expected to be… Read More »NLP for Burmese and Machine Translation Difficulties
Itadakimasu – the Japanese Way to Live Life With Gratitude
There’s a Japanese saying that goes like this: “Seven Gods live in one grain of rice.” And what this means is that when one eats… Read More »Itadakimasu – the Japanese Way to Live Life With Gratitude
Developing Medical Translation Term Basis for Thai
The Thai language does not have an alphabet but rather uses a writing system which is called the abugida. Through this system, every new consonant… Read More »Developing Medical Translation Term Basis for Thai
Top 7 Challenges when translating English to Chinese
There are over 50,000 Chinese characters, 20,000 words in use, and if you know about 500 Chinese characters, you’ll know about 80% of the language.… Read More »Top 7 Challenges when translating English to Chinese