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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

Professional translators are always in demand, especially when all of a sudden someone who does not speak the language of a seller or buyer turns up wanting to engage in business. A professional document translation may be needed in just about any field from the education industry to legal processes for a business. Once the translator has completed the ... View More

This is a tough question to ask as there could be many different answers which depend on where you are located and what type of translation you are most skilled in.

In general terms, the most lucrative translation is between languages spoken by the wealthiest nations. This means that there is going to be a higher volume of ... View More

Imagine getting a document translated in record time by simply sticking it under what looks like a photocopier! That’s now possible with the help of Xerox’s new printer that doubles as a translator, albeit a rather inaccurate one as it relies on computer generated machine translation rather than more accurate (but slower) human translation.

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Translation services employees in the U.S. probably had a double take when they learned that a U.S. city had introduced emoji translation last week. For those readers who haven’t a clue what emojis are and think that maybe emoji is a spoken language, they are actually the emoticons that are often used to accentuate an idea or comment ... View More