Every year 30th September celebrated as International translation day to recognize translation professional work, it is the day of the feast St. Jerome, who is the bible translator and he is considered as Patron saint of translators.
The five most translated languages are English, French, German, Russian and Italian.
The widely spoken languages are Chinese, Spanish and English. In the beginning of the 21st century nearly 75% of books are translated into French or German and only 5% of books translated into Chinese, even though Chinese is a widely spoken language.
Jules Verne, William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie are the most translated authors.
According to the translational professions, Spanish is the most accessible language to translate because the words in Spanish are identical to its pronunciation.
The revenue of the translation industry is growing rapidly worldwide, it will reach above $55billion in the future.
According to the translation Association of China, there are 3,00,000 professions are certified in translations.
Currently 7000 languages are spoken on Earth, but 23 languages are spoken by the majority of the people. Compared to our mother tongue or first language we may find some difficulties in learning and speaking a new other language. According to that, the most difficult languages are Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Korean.
Person who is able to speak only one language is called Monolingual. A person who is able to speak two different languages is called Bilingual. A person who speaks three different languages is Trilingual. Four to five languages are called Polyglot and more than six languages are called Hyperpolyglot.
