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30 most famous polyglots of the world
Cleopatra. The last queen of Egypt studied at least 10 languages. When Ethiopians, Jews, Arabs, Syrians, or Parthians visited her, an amazing woman did not need an interpreter. Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti. The Cardinal, who lived in the XVII th century, astonished the poet George Byron so much...
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How to memorize foreign words?
Having overcome a couple of dozen pages of a simple textbook of a foreign language, one faces a problem: he is already able to speak, but ... there are not enough words. Those who have studied the language for a long time, also lack words - refined, subtly conveying new shades of meaning. In an...
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To customer: how to prepare the source text
No automated system can replace the agile mind of a competent interpreter. Meanwhile, the modern applications produce more or less acceptable version of the text in another language, if the source material is impeccable. The ideal translation - accurate, adequate, stylistically sustained,...