Language Learning is On The Rise
Online, October 6, 2010 (Newswire.com) - With businesses turning their focus to their online presence, their focus also turns to making their products and services available to the whole world. In order for a business to make their products and services available to the world, they need to break language barriers to gain access to customers in foreign countries.
Companies who have an online presence are also continuously looking for ways to make their websites more accessible to those living in foreign countries, by offering translated versions of their websites.
Because translation software usually fails to provide a perfect translation of text, there are many jobs opening up for translators all over the world to translate web content, books and other information.
Translation work is usually either done by companies that specialize in translation or to individual freelancers who offer their translation services online.
The two most spoken languages in the world are english and chinese. Therefore, many foreign countries are going to the internet in droves to learn these languages and make their products and services available to countries that speak these languages. There are many language learning programs available online and new ones popping up every year. There are also websites like www.elearnlanguages.com & www.learningtospeakjapanese.org that help people find recommendations for resources online that will help them learn a new language.
With modern technology, there are lots of new ways to learn a new language. There are mp3s, podcasts, software to help with pronunciation and more. Only a few years ago, in order to learn a new language, the tools used the most were books, tapes and movies. However, today, there are many more tools available to help with all aspects of language learning.
Not only are there new ways to learn a new language, but the tools available can help people learn a new language at spare minutes in line at a grocery store, or in the car, while running errands and other odd times that would otherwise be wasted. Most of what is involved in learning a new language requires listening to the language being spoken. Much of this can be done here and there during the day.
Video sharing has also opened up a new avenue for language learning, with easily accessible videos, free to view and on almost any topic. For a language learner, this can really help to be exposed to all kinds of situations being acted out in the language that they are in the process of learning.