Yussuf.net Quiz 79: translation and multilingualism

Questions

  1. What is the profession of converting one language to another?
  2. What’s the difference between translation and interpretation?
  3. What is a polyglot?
  4. Which app is commonly used for language translation?
  5. What is the term for a word that cannot be translated easily?
  6. What is “machine translation”?
  7. What company created Google Translate?
  8. What organization publishes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 500 languages?
  9. What is code-switching?

Answers

  1. Translator
  2. Translation is written; interpretation is spoken
  3. A person who speaks many languages
  4. Google Translate
  5. Untranslatable
  6. Automatic language conversion by computer
  7. Google
  8. United Nations
  9. Switching between languages in conversation