Gurdeep Pandher dances in Canada in September 2021. Photo by Stewart Burnett Photography. When Gurdeep Pandher dances, it doesn’t matter if you have a dozen left feet. It doesn’t matter if you have never seen Bhangra in your life before. It doesn’t matter what language you speak, which culture you’re from. It doesn’t even matter…
The year 2018 marks the 18th anniversary of International Mother Tongue Day. For Translation Company Lexcelera, languages remain an eternal passion, which is why we want to remind our readers of the importance of mother tongues. Why is mother tongue important? The mother tongue, as indicated by its name, is the first language a child learns in his…
50 million words: a major milestone October 12th 2017, Translators without Borders – the non-profit organization founded by translation company Lexcelera – announced a major milestone: 50 million words translated to support global aid. In just 6 years, Translators without Borders (TWB) has provided 50 million words of translation to humanitarian organizations for development aid and…
How many people actually speak English? English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and more and more people are learning the language of Shakespeare. In fact, English is the 3rd most spoken language in the world after Mandarin and Spanish. Today, approximately: 450 million people speak English as their first…
Today, leading companies are expected to communicate about their Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. Lexcelera often translates this information for our customers’ websites, press releases, podcasts and videos. But what many of our customers may not know is that Lexcelera has a CSR story of its own. Lexcelera is the founder of the world’s largest humanitarian…
I’ve found my calling: being a voice for languages Along the way, I’ve discovered that language matters profoundly, whether for humanitarian aid, or for international business. I discovered the importance of language for global business when I moved from my native Canada to France in 1986. From “Can’t Read, Won’t Buy” to “If you are…
The first African language machine translation engine On October 21, 2015, Microsoft announced that Translators without Borders had collaborated to provide Microsoft Bing with its first African language machine translation engine: the Swahili MT engine. As the founder of Translators without Borders, this project is a big step closer to realizing one of my dreams:…
Native Canadian languages among the most diverse – and most endangered – on the planet Every 14 days another language dies. Most are languages we have never heard of, in faraway lands. But some are closer than we may think, like native Canadian languages. National Geographic and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages have…
Languages facing extinction: the current situation Recently I wrote about my surprising discovery that there are dozens of languages facing extinction in my home province of British Columbia, in Canada. But Canada is not unique in terms of the number of languages threatened with extinction. Across the globe a language dies every 14 days. According…