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Travelling can be a wonderful experience, whether you’re heading overseas as part of your job or whether you’re taking a well-deserved holiday, seeing the world is something that we all enjoy.

However, if you’re traveling for business or pleasure, language can often prove to be a barrier. From simple elements of your trip such as finding accommodation and ordering food to more complex components such as understanding business meetings and conferences, understanding the local language couldn’t be more important. This is where having high-quality interpreting services at your disposal could be crucial.

Like any culture, it can be easy to make assumptions about the lifestyle of Hindi and Indian people, but some may be surprised to know that some conventional thinking could be incorrect. Here are ten facts that you might not know about Hindi and India.  

1. Hindi is Not the National Language of India

Given the popularity of Hindi, it’s easy to see why some assume that it’s the national language of India, when in fact, there are 22 languages.

International Coffee Day is a new holiday that is celebrated throughout the world. The purpose of this holiday is to celebrate the existence of the beverage known as coffee. More importantly, International Coffee Day honors the hard workers in the crop fields that grow coffee plants and harvest them for coffee companies throughout the world.

Unless you are a translator, you probably don’t realize that there is a holiday held every year on September 30th called International Translation Day. Since the establishment of the International Federation of Translators in 1953, the holiday has been celebrated by translators from around the world. This organization is comprised of more than 80,000 different translators who live in 55 nations. There are also over 100 associations which are affiliated with the organization. These associations could be anyone from terminologists to interpreters.