Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, is one of the most important celebrations in the Chinese calendar. It marks the beginning of a new lunar year and is traditionally a time for family reunions, long-held customs, and looking ahead...
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Do You Know the Differences Between British and American English?
May 26, 2025 | Culture and Languages
Do you know the difference between a boot and a trunk? Can you differentiate your aluminiums from your aluminums? The differences between British and American English are more than a skin-deep accent change. This makes them an interesting topic for discussion, but...
Carnivals Around the World – Brazil, Italy, and Near You!
May 25, 2025 | Culture and Languages
Colourful floats. Dancers. Big bands and big music. Partying in the streets until the early hours. Whether you know it as Carnevale, carnival or Mardi Gras, the period traditionally leading up to Christian Lent is a festival time in many parts of the world. It's...
Chinese Language Day and the Diversity of Chinese
Apr 14, 2025 | China, Culture and Languages
Chinese Language Day falls on the 20th of April. It is a time chosen to align with the Chinese celebration of Guyu, which honours Cangjie—the four-eyed mythical figure traditionally credited with creating Chinese characters in the time of the Yellow Emperor, around...
Is There a Difference between North and South Korean Language?
Apr 13, 2025 | Culture and Languages
The border between North and South Korea is one of the most heavily fortified in the world. A combined force of more than two million troops keeps the border—dividing the Korean peninsula roughly in half—inviolable. But despite the huge variance in ideology, economy,...
Selecting The Correct Arabic Dialect For Your Target Audience
Mar 27, 2025 | Arabic, Culture and Languages
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is one of the six official languages of the United Nations and ranks fifth among the world's most widely spoken languages. Every day, more than 1.8 billion Muslims around the world hear Classical Arabic as their liturgical language....
There’s No Such Language as ‘Bahasa’: What You Actually Mean
Mar 27, 2025 | Culture and Languages
Asian Absolute frequently receives requests from clients to convert materials into Bahasa, but in reality, there is no single language that can be referred to as Bahasa. From experience, we know that most of the clients are, in fact, looking for a translation into...
Exploring the Burmese Language: A Window to Myanmar’s Rich Heritage
Mar 14, 2025 | Culture and Languages
Mention the words ‘Burmese’ or ‘Burma’ outside of Asia, and you might get responses about cats, colonial stories, or perhaps confusion. Beyond these associations, however, lies something far more significant: Burmese is the official language of Myanmar, spoken by over...
Languages Of The United States
Mar 12, 2025 | Culture and Languages
In this article, we dive into the incredible linguistic diversity of the United States, with a special focus on Chicago to uncover insights about the nation's evolving language landscape. Globally, there are approximately 7,079 known living languages, according to...
Tagalog or Filipino? An introduction to the national language of the Philippines
Mar 10, 2025 | Culture and Languages
Tagalog, a vibrant Austronesian language, continues to thrive as one of the most widely spoken languages in the Philippines. Today, around 25 million people speak Tagalog as their first language, with many millions more using it as their second language, thanks to its...
Arabic Language Day – A Tribute to One of The Most Important Languages in the World
Dec 10, 2024 | Arabic, Culture and Languages
Arabic Language Day will take place on 18th December. Created by UNESCO in 2010, the day is intended to promote cross-cultural understanding and celebrate cultural diversity. Because even though it's one of the most-spoken languages on the face of the Earth, Arabic is...
Bridging cultures through translation
Sep 11, 2024 | Culture and Languages, Translation Industry 101
Translation is all about bridging cultures. Nowhere is this clearer than in the fast-growing popularity of translated fiction in English-speaking countries worldwide. Over two million of the books sold in the UK in 2022 were originally written in languages other than...
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