Spooky Translation...

To celebrate Halloween all some of the team at K International dressed up in funny costumes. Here are some of the silliest Enjoy! 'Yes... we do translate Goblin' Count Vendor the Vendor Manager Mad dog Piotr/Peter the Werewolf The Witches of Linford Wood East

Native Arapaho Speakers...

On Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, the Northern Arapaho tribe is struggling to preserve its language. As with many Native American tribes, Arapaho children were forced into boarding schools started in the late 1800’s in an effort to make them more “American.” Of course, that’s really pretty...

Proto-Indo-European...

Anyone who has studied languages knows that different languages can be surprisingly similar. For example, Spanish and Italian look very much alike on paper-if you know one of the languages, you can almost intuit the meaning of a sentence written in the other language. It’s not surprising to be...

The Cherokee language...

In parts of the United States today, including Tennessee, North Carolina, and Oklahoma, road signs are marked with unfamiliar symbols that don’t correspond to English letters. Passing through these areas, you may wonder what the symbols mean. In all likelihood, you are looking at signs written...

820 languages in one country...

Which country has the highest number of different languages within its borders? Surprisingly, the answer is not China, India or any other large country. Tiny Papua New Guinea is all of 462,840 square kilometres in size, about as big as the state of California. Despite its small size, it is the most linguistically...