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Once a retailer, always a retailer and this means retailers never give up when it comes to looking for new customers. They are constantly on the lookout to attract more and more customers to buy their products. Digitally savvy consumers aren’t necessarily the best target as they read between the lines when it comes to product descriptions and anything that doesn’t seem quite right will entice them to look for another more suitable ... View More

There are many ways a business can benefit from an overseas market. There is no particular way, but a number of possibilities, including direct exporting which may be suitable and the best strategy for one particular market. It should not be forgotten that website translation can be beneficial to your business.

The strategy will be determined by :
– Tariff costs;
– Transportation costs;
– Marketing costs.

Each of these will dig ... View More

A literary translation is harder than you may have thought as it is a creative piece of work which is translated from one language to another. Literature is a verbal language which is particularly subjected to linguistic hurdles. It differs from painting, music, dance or sculpture, because literary work is really only accessible to those who really know the language the literary work is written in.  A literary translation is the translation ... View More

Anyone old enough to remember typewriters may be forgiven for thinking that proofreading and editing is a thing of the past, not just for anything written in one’s own language, but for translations, too. It’s not true, of course. Proofreading and editing are skills that are just as important as they used to be. It’s just that there are more tools available to make those steps a little easier.

For those who ... View More

If you’ve never heard of the term “transcreation”, it may be time you have, especially if you are in the business of marketing your products to a new emerging niche or you are a marketing translator who is looking to build your client base.

Transcreation sounds vaguely like a religious term at first, but it has nothing to do with religion at all. It is the adaptation of ... View More

It can be hard to appreciate just how different parts of the world are like when it comes to digital access. We tend to take for granted the fact that data is available everywhere at all times. This just isn’t the case everywhere in the world, or at least even if the Internet is available in theory, it may not be in practice, simply because millions of people in the poorer parts of ... View More

Globalisation may have become a dirty word politically recently, if the results of the U.S. presidential election, the Brexit referendum in Britain and some European election campaigns are anything to go by. But the public mood in some quarters is unlikely to have much effect on the global economy and the demand for translation services which are growing as businesses around the world compete for the world market.
It goes without saying ... View More

The actual job of translating in 2017 is probably a bit of a mystery to many people who need a translation done for them. They probably think that the translator sits in front of his or her computer with a text extract mentally engaged in switching from one language to another.
To some extent, that is still true. It depends partly on exactly what the translator is doing. There may still be tasks ... View More

2017 is already 2 months old, so what’s going on in the language service industry this year? Here are four key trends for the remainder of this year.
* No shortage in demand for the translation industry
* Machine translation gets better but nowhere does it replace human translation
* More performance tracking for professional translators
* Asia will continue to be the highest growth area for translation services

When emojis first came out, it was hoped that they would become a universal language, with the capability to transcend both cultural differences and borders.

Recently, researchers have discovered that some emojis are interpreted quite differently. This has meant that miscommunication takes place when they are used. Even professional marketing translators may not interpret emoji use the same way.
For example, it was found that when individuals receive an emoji showing a face expressing ... View More