A dynamic work environment makes many employees realize that it is healthier if there is movement in the office. In many cases, the average employee spends long hours in front…
Translation: Facts & Figures and So Much More
When you’re in the business of language services, you tend to talk about translation and interpreting, forgetting that if you’re not in the same industry, understanding these complex jobs can be…
Translation Techniques: Compensating for Differences Between Languages
When a professional translator sits down to work, he or she does not stop and think about the strategies to be employed for a particular translation work. It comes intuitively….
Transcreation: It’s More than Just Translation
When it comes to technical translation, clients need to work with subject matter experts (SMEs) who have deep knowledge, expertise and training in a particular field. SMEs know the specific terminologies…
What Do Translators Actually Do?
A translator need not speak several languages. There are many who only work in one or two language pairs – for example English and Spanish, or English and German. You might…
Translating Humor is Not Funny for Translators
It takes a high level of creativity to be able to translate humor from one language into another, which is not funny at all. How do you translate humor, which…
Getting the Right Kind of Professional Help from a Speech Therapist
Speech therapists help solve language impairments amongst kids and adults. Speech disorders affect around 9% of young children in the US. Six to eight million American children suffer from language…
What You Need to Know About Legal Translation
There are so many facets to legal translation and the skills required for a legal translator are stringent compared to other forms of translation. In the olden days country borders…
Demand for Translators Continue to be on the Rise
Fluency in a foreign language is hard to find. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the job of interpreters and translators is one of the 15 fastest growing jobs…
Language as we use it today by Dine Racoma
Language As We Use It Today Language is part of one society’s culture and identity. It is the way in which people communicate. It is a complex system, yet it…