Fulfulde / Fula (West & Central Africa)
About
Fulfulde is rhythmic, almost musical. Spoken fast in Kano, slower in Senegal. I tried asking “No mbaɗa, jango?” in a crowded market once and ended up laughing hysterically after accidentally asking “Do you eat cows?” instead of “How are you today?” The locals corrected me but then explained it with three different gestures and a story about their last cattle festival.
Slang is everywhere. French in Senegal, English in Nigeria, Hausa sprinkled randomly. Grammar exists formally but daily conversations simplify constantly. Conversations spiral unpredictably: greeting → gossip → cattle stories → family → teasing → exaggeration → proverb → song lyric → joke. You learn vocabulary, tone, and humor by surviving these conversational tangents, not from memorizing rules.
About Enuncia Global
Enuncia Global is… well, I guess the simplest way to put it is we’re in the business of languages. Not just translation in the boring dictionary sense, but kind of making communication smoother between people who otherwise would stare blankly at each other. We do translations, voice overs, subtitles, all that. Sometimes it feels like we’re everywhere—legal docs one day, video game dialogues the next, and then suddenly some corporate brochure that has to sound “professional but not robotic.”
I think what makes Enuncia Global different (and I don’t want to sound like a cliché company profile here, but still) is that it’s not only about throwing words from one language to another. We actually care about tone, style, culture… because honestly, what’s the point of translating if you lose the feel of it? Like, imagine a joke translated literally—it just dies, right? We try to keep that soul alive.
We’ve got a team that’s oddly diverse. Some are language nerds, some are techies who enjoy making websites and SEO stuff work, and then there are project managers who somehow manage to keep everyone from losing their minds. Not easy.
At the end of the day, it’s about trust. Clients give us sensitive stuff—sometimes personal, sometimes business secrets—and we deliver, quietly, without fuss. Maybe that’s why people stick with us. Anyway, that’s Enuncia Global in short.