Shanghai Daily’s Buzzwords

Working outside of the country where your source language is spoken can be a challenge. Language and society are always evolving and it can be quite difficult to stay informed of political jargon, slang and social trends if you are no longer immersed in the language you spent years studying. Thankfully, the internet can help us fill the gaps in our linguistic and cultural knowledge.

Shanghai Daily’s Buzzwords blog has been an indispensable source of information over the past few years and has allowed me to keep up to date with all of the latest social trends and “buzzwords” in present-day China. Each buzzword is accompanied by a short description of the origin of the term and is a fantastic resource for translators who work with news articles or similar texts. The blog is updated weekly so you can be assured that the terms featured are in current use.

I honestly cannot recommend this blog enough. Anyone who works in the Chinese>English language pair should consider adding this blog to their favourites/bookmarks.

Lexiophiles Top 100 Language Blogs of 2009

Readers might be interested to know that Lexiophiles is currently holding its Top 100 Language Blogs competition. The Lexiophiles crew have added a few new categories for this year’s competition : Language learning, language teaching, language technology, and language professionals.

A number of blogs on translation and interpretation made it into the Top 100 list last year, including Yndigo, Fidus Interpres, and Blogging Translator. A full list of last year’s Top 100 Language Blogs can be found here.

You can submit your nominations for your favourite language learning and translation blogs by clicking here. The closing date for nominations is July 6th and voting will be open to the public between July 8th and July 27th.

More details about the Lexiophiles Top 100 Language Blogs of 2009 can be found here.