Why is translation very difficult from English to Thai?

Thai students have difficulties translating English to Thai and even more when translating Thai to English. This is because they do not achieve a good level of language knowledge and cannot apprehend the linguistic differences between English and Thai. Thep-Ackrapong (1997: 85-122) explains that the translation …

What language can we not translate?

But there’s also Odia, the official language of the Odisha state in India, with 38 million speakers, which has no presence in Google Translate. And Oromo, a language spoken by some 34 million people, mostly in Ethiopia, which has just 772 articles in its Wikipedia.

Is translatable a word?

Capable of being translated into another language.

How do you say I speak no in English?

a. Yo no hablo inglés. I don’t speak English.

Is the word googly the hardest to translate?

The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004, by a British translation company. However, due to its sociological use, the word has been exported into many other languages. A googly (a term in the game of cricket) is a type of delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler.

Is Serendipity a difficult word to translate?

Even for professional literature translators this word represents a challenge. Serendipity is any discovery that’s unexpected yet fortunate. You can also call it a lucky find, coincidence or accident. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004, by a British translation company.

Are there any English words that don’t translate into Portuguese?

There are also some English words that, while they do translate into Portuguese, lose much of their definition in the process. ‘Pasta’ becomes ‘massa’ in Portuguese.

How many words are only found in English?

The fact that there’s hundreds of words that are only found in English shouldn’t surprise you at all. The Oxford English Dictionary lists over 250,000 distinct words, not including many technical or slang terms, making English one of the richest languages (if not the richest) in terms of vocabulary.