Challenges of Translation: Japanese Part 2
Challenges of Translation: Japanese Part 2 In this series of discussions, we are examining some of the more difficult challenges faced by professionals in the translation industry, especially with the …
Challenges of the translation profession Part 1
For those people not “in the know” (Why is that in quotes? Keep reading and you will see why!) doing the work of a translator probably appears to only have …
Japanese and Chinese: A shared history, and a history of sharing.
For Western readers, it is only natural to look at Japan and China and their proximity to one another on the map and the similarities of their written language styles …
Writing in Japanese?
Before we can begin our discussion of how to write in Japanese, we must begin by defining a few words. What is a language? For the purpose of this discussion, …