Senior Writer
“Senior writer covering language, culture, and the people who carry both across borders.”
Bernadine Racoma is a senior writer at Day Translations covering language, culture, and the small everyday acts of translation that make global life work. Her features lean toward the human side of the industry — the lives of interpreters, linguists, and the communities they serve.
How many people know the history of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day? Maybe, like many of the younger generation, you do not know why these two holidays are observed. You might be one of those people who only know that these two special…
Machine translation is on the rise. Google Translate, as well as other automated translation solutions like Bing Microsoft Translator, Babel Fish, PROMT, ImTranslator, have significantly improved over the years. With the help of neural networks and deep learning, they are now capable of translating more…
You have probably seen the new prank hitting the Internet recently. Parents, siblings, or friends blithely subject kids to the anxiety or vexation of believing that they have become invisible. The videos of these pranks on YouTube and social media almost always evoke laughter, albeit…
United Nations Day is a celebration held annually on October 24. In a move to signify the end of the WWI formally, the League of Nations was founded through the Treaty of Versailles. The members of the league signed the treaty on June 28, 1919,…
When you’re into content marketing, what is more important to you? Is it providing great content or writing with research, storytelling or empathy or understanding your target audience? The correct answer is amplification! What? If you are a content writer, you want to write something…
The Azerbaijani language, which is also called Azeri, is Azerbaijan’s official language. The Republic of Azerbaijan is located in Eurasia’s South Caucasus region. Azerbaijani belongs to the Turkic language family. Just like Turkmen and Turkish, Azerbaijani is from the Orghuz branch. The development of the…
The International Week of Happiness at Work is an annual celebration observed from September 24 to 28. The event was started by two Dutch women, Fennande van der Meulen and Maartje Wolff. They are co-founders of Happy Office, a company they opened in 2015. Happy…
If you have a passion for languages, you’ll realize that South America speaks more languages than just Portuguese and Spanish, but it will sadden you to know that the number of critically endangered languages of South America is on the rise. South America is a…
Israel is a developed, yet a young country, that is home to several ethnicities. The languages of Israel are both indigenous and non-indigenous. Israel or formally, the State of Israel, is located in the Middle East. While the region passed through the hands of several…
Talk about blockchain with an enthusiastic IT guy or an eager bitcoin “investor” and prepare to be trapped in their zealous gaze. Blockchain technology is becoming popular, and many are becoming keen on it, to the point of annoying some with their attempts to explain…
Culture plays a crucial role in the translation and localization projects for international businesses. The company’s reputation rests on the appropriate translation of documents and the correct localization of their websites. Taking notice of cultural considerations largely helps in contextualizing translations. As it is, translation…
This article is part of our Localization guide – check it out for a detailed blueprint on this complex process. ___________________________________________________ Developers are flooding the market with mobile apps, some of which are very useful while others become popular only for a short time, but…
