Tag Archives : English language

Partnership between U.S. universities and Qatar creates “Hala,” the receptionist robot that can translate not only language but also to interpret the cultural nuances of the interlocutors. Called “roboceptionist” is bilingual and bicultural, the product of three years of research and a fund of $ 1 million from the Qatar National [...]

Eric Schmidt, Google CEO showed at Mobile World Congress this year, held from 15 to 18 February in Barcelona, a new prototype experimental android of visual search from the company, Google Googles, which can translate text that appears in photographs . The prototype uses translation technology associated with recognition capabilities of images to create [...]

Google released earlier this week changes and improvements in the Google translator, which helps users to understand texts in other languages. Besides the new look, the service has implemented tools that help in the understanding of non-Latin languages such as Chinese, Arabic or Persian. For these languages, will be offered the option “show romanization, [...]

Deciphering the plays of William Shakespeare in a school essay was apparently not enough for two students, who wrote a book with phrases that sum up Twitter and satirical works of literature. The “Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter”, which will be released by Penguin in November in the United Kingdom is [...]

Ngugi wa Thiong’o successfully wrote in English but eventually turned to writing in Gikuyu, his mother tongue. He wants other writers to follow his example. ‘Decolonising the Mind’ is both an explanation of how he eventually decided to write in Gikuyu, as well as an encouragement for African writers to write in their native languages. Ngugi [...]

The very definition of African literature can be fodder to endless debate. What qualifies as African literature, anyway? For starters, what is indigenous literature, in the first place? The polemics in the debate contains the two most important factors: is African literature about Africa or the African experience? Are the writings of an African who [...]