Since our focus is on Afrikaans lately, we’ve been interviewing some of our foremost Afrikaans translators in order for you to get to know the people behind the translations. It also helps us to prove that we don’t translate with translation tools or use automatic translations or anything like that. We choose to work with[…]
In order for you to get to know our highly-experienced translators, we’ve decided on a brief interview. Meet Althea. 1. Which languages do you translate and what industries do you specialise in? “English to Afrikaans/Afrikaans to English/Dutch to Afrikaans; Publishing industry, Academic industry.” 2. How long have you been a translator, and how did you[…]
Considering our focus on Afrikaans, we’ve decided to highlight a few common terms. Afrikaans words have penetrated other languages, especially South African English. This is mainly due to the English and Afrikaans cultures merging to a certain extent in South Africa. There is also prevalence of South Africans speaking a mixture of English and Afrikaans[…]
This week, we’ll be profiling Afrikaans on our blog. As one of South Africa’s eleven official languages and our only official language starting with the Letter ‘A’, it was an easy first-choice. We plan to look at common definitions / descriptions of the language, interview some of our translators and look at common phrases and[…]
We are proud to announce that Web-lingo is back in business as a Proudly South African company! As of the end of May 2012, Sonette Hill, our CEO, resigned as CEO of Rubric South Africa and sold her shareholding in Web-lingo Holdings (Pty) Ltd t/a Rubric SA to the remaining shareholders. She is pleased to[…]
Found this interesting site in trawling the internet for some more information on Sesotho. After a while of searching to no avail, the obvious appeared, a site dedicated purely to the Sesotho, or Southern Sotho language. It’s pretty informative and quite interesting, you can view it here: http://www.sesotho.web.za/ or www.sesotho.org Everything from Sociolinguistic history to[…]