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These days, mobile applications are increasing in popularity so fast that makers cannot match the demand. From anything from a fitness tracker to a GPS to a movie downloader, there always seems to be a demand for more. Once the app has been developed, the maker’s needs to know which languages are likely to be most popular for users. ... View More

The global hotel business is now a very competitive industry with tourists flocking to cities and other attractions in worldwide destinations. Not everyone can speak the languages of the countries they visit, so when arriving at a hotel communication can sometimes be difficult. To help integrate into their new language environment there are some key items of information that ... View More

Businesses today are as active on social media sites as are individuals and most recently a Twitter account has proved to be more and more favourable for businesses. The main aim of a Twitter account is to reach out to customers and actively engage in conversations with followers. By doing this, product benefits are passed via Twitter accounts so sales ... View More

Your birth certificate is one of the most important documents you are ever likely to own as it determines who you are and when and where you were born. This is often the only document that you are requested to show for things such as a marriage, attendance at college or university and applying for immigration into another country. If your birth certificate is not in English and you wish to work, study ... View More

Google has become more or less the prime search engine for finding information for just about everything known on the Internet. There are few people who have never heard of it wherever they are in the world. People are so familiar with the word that it has been turned into a verb that has now found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which ... View More

If you are in the situation that you translate a monthly newsletter for a client regularly, you can make the process far simpler and time effective by providing a file transfer site where you and your client can quickly access documents that need translating and ones that have been translated. This is an extra service ... View More

Technical translation is a niche market in the translation industry. Even though it involves the translation of words like any other translation between languages it has some rather specific challenges.

The majority of technical translations fit clearly defined categories, such as users’ guides, owners’ manuals, journals and scientific texts. These texts use specialized language and the translation has to be done in such a way that it emphasises the text in a ... View More

Visual entertainment has, ever since its invention, been used as a means of taking viewers out of the tediousness of the real world and into a world that is not real but has been created to entertain. Movies are usually based on themes so that viewers can choose a movie that suits their interest such as action, drama, science fiction and documentaries about worldly things. Some of the best movies do provide the ... View More

Technical language is difficult enough for native language speakers. It involves an understanding and familiarity with a very specific terminology and jargon. If a technical document translation is required, it is important that it is handled by professional translation services that specialise in technical documents. In fact, the more specialised the translator, the better. For example, if ... View More

Many businesses and government organizations use customer reviews and surveys to give them an idea of where they are headed. This sets up an interesting challenge for many of those producing the reviews and surveys because so many of their customers or users are either living overseas or live in the same country but do not speak the same language. It means that ... View More