Tip of the Tongue

Hebrew is not a difficult language to learn.   Due to several thousand years of forced stagnation, it failed to develop new roots and beca...

Watching TV today is a bewildering experience.   With the formal choice of hundreds of channels and programs in multiple languages, both n...

Judea and Samaria , the Occupied Territories and the West Bank are three names that describe the complex reality of almost 6,000 square m...

One of the strangest tourist purchases in Israel is a wooden camel with the word “Jerusalem” printed on it.  First of all, there are and we...

Perfection is a concept that is useful for comparison but futile for satisfaction.  An example is the mythical concept of a perfect transla...

It can be very adventurous, even romantic, ordering from a menu in a language you do not understand at all.  Unfortunately, the result can ...

The world of translation for both the general public and professionals is the midst of a revolution.  Machine translation has taken off.  G...