What’s the Difference Between Tagalog and Filipino?

What’s the Difference Between Tagalog and Filipino?

Are you thinking about traveling or moving to the Philippines? If you are, you might have decided to learn Tagalog so you can socialize with Pinoys in no time. But when you browse official websites and sign up for an online course, you’ll see Filipino. So, is Filipino...
Fun Facts About Chinese

Fun Facts About Chinese

Fun Facts About Different Languages: Do You Know Chinese Characters Contain Biblical Truth?   You may be surprised by the title of this article thinking, “Is it true that Chinese characters contain some truths known in the Bible today?” There is a famous Chinese...
ATA Certification

ATA Certification

Sean Song, a seasoned Chinese translator originally from China who lives in the DC metro area recently passed the certification exam for the language pair from English into Chinese offered by the American Translators Association (ATA).  According to the ATA website,...
Contrasting ATA Conference Experiences

Contrasting ATA Conference Experiences

In October 2017, while attending a linguist mixer event at the Los Angeles Netflix office, I met another translator who told me about the American Translators Association (ATA) and shared with me how she had benefited from being a member.  I have been a translator and...
Differences Between Chinese Dialects

Differences Between Chinese Dialects

What are the differences between simplified and traditional Chinese, or among Mandarin, the Chinese on Taiwan, and Cantonese? Many professionals in the language business are confused by the complexity of Chinese, such as the differences among Mandarin Chinese,...