The International Mother Language Day promotes awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity, multilingualism, and the respect of all native languages. For this occasion, I would like to talk about something…
ナイーブ (naību): innocent, pure Naïve: a person showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment The integration and adaptation of naïve into the Japanese language have more to do with Japanese…
SignAll is slowly but surely building a sign language translation platform Translating sign language puts an additional level of complexity over spoken and written languages. SignAll, the Budapest-base…
You might be wondering why we are discussing Valentine’s Day when it’s supposed to be about working in Japan. Truth is, as many events in Japan, even this holiday is somehow linked to work. In the…
WOVN.io and Silver Egg are joining forces to ease cross-border ecommerce for both businesses and users. Ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, Japanese ecommerce businesses are getting ready to accommodate international…
デマ (dema): unfounded rumor Demagogie: from German, political practices that seek support by appealing to emotions rather than by using rational arguments. デマ was coined in the Showa…
IBM’s New AI Can Predict Psychosis in Your Speech Computational Psychiatry and Neuroimaging experts around the globe have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) capable of predicting with relative…
WOVN.io and Rozetta have joined forces and are launching ¥1 website localization on February 7th, 2018. Rozetta is a Japanese translation giant. In December 2017, the company started offering an innovative…
サービス (sabisu): free of charge or discount Service: action of helping or doing work for someone According to a Japanese idiom, the customer is not king, the customer is god. From greetings…
Facebook is coming closer to humanizing its chatbots Chatbots cannot come up with natural-like answers just yet: they do not have consistent personalities, they cannot remember their past answers and they will…
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