We scan through every n-gram (n in the order 3, 2, 1) in Hausa documents to see if any of them match an English name based on the following multi-media language-independent low-cost heuristics.
for example, when a child is watching a cartoon and shifting between versions in two languages, s/he can easily infer translation pairs for the same con- cept whose images appear frequently (e.g., "宝宝 (baby)" and "螃蟹 (crab)" in "Dora Exploration", "海盗 (pirate)" in "the Garden Guardians", and "亨利 (Henry)" in "Thomas Train"), as illustrated in figure 2.