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07/05/2021
Translation
If your company has already been looking for a translator to revise/edit a text that was translated in-house, you may have some experience of how difficult it can be to find one. Without having official statistics, I would say that most translators, if given the choice between doing a translation job or an editing job (revision), they would choose translation . On the contrary, only very few...
23/04/2021
Translation
One of the principles taught in translation faculties is that you should always translate from the original text . This is a reasonable idea , because in general nothing is more accurate than the original. However, the translation market reality is a little different. That’s why we as translation companies often recommend our clients to work from English . In many cases, it is the best way to get...
16/04/2021
Translation
When that potential client told me “how can I trust a translation that needs to be revised?”, I was caught up in his reasoning: Even I thought he was right! It's been a long time since that day, but I still remember as if it happened yesterday. I was then a recent graduate with a theoretical framework forged in the translation faculty, still in the process of adjusting university teaching to the...
30/03/2021
Translation
Translators specialized in economics are professionals with various hats. Although some have reached this stage without following the traditional curriculum, the typical profile continues to require a strong background in translation as well as finance . Josh Gambín, one of the founders of the translation agency AbroadLink Translations , states in a article on the particularities of financial...
23/03/2021
Translation
The blog part of your website is of crucial importance for SEO. It is a section that is updated often and that search engines visit regularly. If you have a bilingual website, or even more languages, the thorny question of the blog arises. Even if it costs more time and money, translating your blog posts has important advantages with the consequent return on investment. [TOC] Blog translation to...
16/03/2021
Translation
With the rise of the powerful British Empire and its former colonies beginning in the 18th century, English became the first language of international communication. The United States of America has been a political and economic leader throughout the 20th century. [TOC] Although it is one of the official languages of more than 50 countries in the world , the influence of English goes further,...
09/03/2021
Translation
Arabic translations they present many challenges that go beyond the alphabet and presentation: many parameters must be considered. The number of speakers of Arabic is very high, between 300 and 400 million, and it is spoken in a great variety of cultures and with many variations. Most of the current translations into Arabic are grouped under the terms "classical, standard, modern, or literary."...
02/03/2021
Translation
You can distinguish a good worker by his tools. The professional translator is no exception to this rule. Of course, translation tools are increasingly dematerialized, but that does not prevent them from being used correctly to carry out quality translations in any field. Next I will review the current tools used by the professional translators freelancers or those who work in translation...
23/02/2021
Translation
A legal translator occupies a position that requires a lot of rigour and a good knowledge of the legal system. According to an article published by Guadalupe Soriana Cultural, textual and linguistic aspects of legal translation: : A model of text analysis for training legal translators , the demand for legal translators continues to grow , which shows that the rare pearl is not so easily found. [...
16/02/2021
Translation
Polish is, after Russian, the second most widely spoken Slavic language in the world. This seems surprising because one might think that Polish is spoken exclusively in Poland, a country with only 38 million inhabitants. It is the weight of its diaspora, present in every corner of the planet, that makes the difference We are not going to hide here that Polish is a very difficult language for...