Americas
In addition to English, the main languages spoken throughout the Americas are Spanish, French (Canada) and Portuguese.
Spanish translation service (US & Latin America)
Spanish is the second most common language after English in the United States of America. It is the native language of about 30 million people 5 years and over (or 12% of the population) in 2005, excluding 4.0 million native speakers in Puerto Rico. Spanish is so widely spoken in the United States that it is generally considered to be either the third or the fourth largest Spanish-speaking country in the world (after Mexico, Colombia and possibly Spain).
The Blue South Spanish translation service is available for all variants of Spanish, dependant upon the target market.
French translation service (Canada)
In the Province of Quebec, French is the official language. Compared with modern day European French, it is substantially different in pronunciation and vocabulary, though easily mutually comprehensible.
Portuguese translation service (Brazil)
Portuguese is the only language with full official status in Brazil and there are little regional variances. It is the main language of the 182 million population.
The language spoken in Brazil is quite different from the one spoken in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
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Europe
The European Union has 20 official languages plus Europe can be considered to include a further 12 for countries which are in Europe but are not EU members.
Frequently requested European languages are German, French and Russian.
French translation service
French was the 11th most spoken language in the world in 1999, being spoken by about 77 million people (called francophones) as a mother tongue. The global total of French speakers (including second language speakers) was 128 million. In addition to France, French is the official language of France's overseas territories (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, French southern and Antarctic lands, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Mayotte.
Russian translation service
The most widely spoken language of Europe, Russian (русский язык) is the most widespread of the Slavic languages. Russian is primarily spoken in Russia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the USSR. Following the break-up of the USSR in 1991, several of the newly independent states have encouraged their native languages, which has partly reversed the privileged status of Russian, though its role as the language of post-Soviet national intercourse throughout the region has continued.
Russian is written using a modern version of the Cyrillic (кириллица) alphabet, consisting of 33 letters.
German translation service
German is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union. It is spoken primarily in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and in two-thirds of Switzerland.
German is the main language of about 100 million people in Europe (as of 2004), or 13.3% of all Europeans. German is the third most taught foreign language worldwide, the second most taught in Europe and the third also in the USA.
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Asia-Pacific
Many languages are spoken throughout the Asia-Pacific region. For a
Frequently requested languages from this region are Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Chinese translation service
Mandarin Chinese or Putonghua is the official spoken language of the People’s Republic of China and Cantonese is a dialect used in Hong Kong and parts of Southern China, particularly Guangdong Province.
The People’s Republic of China uses a simplified style of characters but those Chinese speaking countries and territories outside of the mainland have retained the un-simplified form, i.e. Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Korean translation service
The Korean language (한국어 / 조선어) is the official language of both North and South Korea. Korean is also spoken widely in neighbouring Yanbian, China. Worldwide, there are around 78 million Korean speakers, including large groups in the former Soviet Union, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, and more recently the Philippines.
Japanese translation service
Japanese has been heavily influenced by Chinese over a period of at least 1,500 years. It is written with a mix of borrowed Chinese characters (kanji) and a modified syllabary (kana), also originally based on Chinese characters with similar pronunciation. Scholarly and scientific vocabulary has been imported from Chinese, or created on Chinese models, in a way that is similar to the influence of Latin on European languages. Japanese also shares grammatical features with Chinese, such as the use of topic-comment constructions and classifiers, as do many other Eastern Asian languages.
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Middle East/Africa
A wide variety of languages are spoken throughout Middle East/Africa.
Frequently requested languages for this region are Arabic & Hebrew.
Arabic translation service
Arabic is written from right to left and uses its own alphabet, which is composed of 28 consonants. Most of the characters have four different forms, one for beginning a word, another for ending a word, still another for a medial position, and a fourth for a letter used by itself. Vowels are shown by symbols above or below the consonants, but they are optional and are often not written.
Hebrew translation service
Modern Hebrew is written from right to left and scripts are based on the "square" letter form. A similar system is used in handwriting, but the letters tend to be more circular in their character, and sometimes vary markedly from their printed equivalents.
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