A 7-Eleven assistant manager in Bangkok has gone viral on TikTok for serving customers in seven languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Indonesian, German and Burmese. Teerawat "Tony" Wanichkam, 48, works at the branch at BITEC Bang Na. He grew up in Ayutthaya around foreign visitors, holds a degree in communications and master's degrees in languages and tourism, and once worked in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. He took the store job during Covid when tourism stopped, and on one of his first days ten tour buses of Chinese visitors walked in. He says he sees himself as a goodwill ambassador, so visitors leave with a good feeling about Thailand.
Hi Mastodon 👋 We're the small team behind RhymeU, a free tool that writes a personalized poem about a real person: a name, two or three details, a style (birthday, toast, apology, epic...).
First test: an epic ode, in Portuguese, to Lucas, the colleague who is always late to meetings but brings coffee for everyone. It works in 29 languages.
Bilingual or multilingual friends, which one of your languages do you tend to dream in the most? Or do you speak both or all of your languages in your dreams more or less equally?
🌍 The Principles of Open Science Monitoring are now speaking more languages!
Following the recent presentation of the OSMI infographic, we're pleased to announce it is now available in 9 languages: Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Spanish.
Report back from #FediForum last week. Held a good session on #GloballyInclusive handles. Just a few attendees, but one knew the technical issues deeply and was well connected to ActivityPub design. Session notes will likely appear at fediforum.org/topics/#topic-in… in a few weeks. For now, here is a summary:
🌍 Qwen is one of the few large models to offer true multilingual parity. French, Arabic, Swahili, Hindi… not just polished English with approximate translations. 🗣️✨
As a non-native English speaker from a not-so-popular language group, learning to read even casual science stuff was an uphill battle. First I had to learn English to a reasonable level. Then I realized that English-Romanian dictionaries hadn’t really kept up with science.
I eventually managed to get my hands on a fancy English-only dictionary (yes, a printed one, this was a while ago), but then I ran into another problem: I'd start from one definition, only to find another unfamiliar word in the explanation, then another one in that definition and so on, until I forgot where I had started. And even when I did understand a concept, I'd often be stuck with the English word and with a lot of frustration about trying to convey that in my own language.
Some of those struggles are outdated now. At least you no longer have to deal with a giant dictionary pressing into your ribs if you’re reading lying down. But the language gap in science communication still exists.
That’s why I’m launching a community project: The brain across languages.
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As a non-native English speaker from a not-so-popular language group, learning to read even casual science stuff was an uphill battle. First I had to learn English to a reasonable level. Then I realized that English-Romanian dictionaries hadn’t really kept up with science.
I eventually managed to get my hands on a fancy English-only dictionary (yes, a printed one, this was a while ago), but then I ran into another problem: I'd start from one definition, only to find another unfamiliar word in the explanation, then another one in that definition and so on, until I forgot where I had started. And even when I did understand a concept, I'd often be stuck with the English word and with a lot of frustration about trying to convey that in my own language.
Some of those struggles are outdated now. At least you no longer have to deal with a giant dictionary pressing into your ribs if you’re reading lying down. But the language gap in science communication still exists.
That’s why I’m launching a community project: The brain across languages.
We’re inviting students who speak more than one language to help us translate Neurofrontiers content into as many languages as possible.
What this project is about Understanding the brain is essential and, without a doubt, fascinating. But while the science of the brain affects everyone, the language of that science remains predominantly English.
The official openSUSE Forums providing help, support and community resources to all the users of openSUSE family of distributions and various project within the openSUSE Project
Introduction: Scholarly research spans multiple languages, making multilingual metadata crucial for organizing and accessing knowledge across linguistic boundaries.
📝 [Blog] Introducing the rOpenSci Localization and Translation Guidelines
rOpenSci has developed a set of guidelines to assist our community in translating and localizing our resources. We’re excited to share the first version of the rOpenSci Localization and Translation Guidelines!
