Anyone who has ever translated or taken part, in any capacity, in a legal proceeding can attest to the fact that there is a multitude of phrases and expressions that
It belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, which we spoke about HERE. More than 60 million people are native speakers of this language, and they are
I recently read an article about the new national certification given to medical interpreters of Spanish in the United States. I think this is actually quite important, especially for the
As a translator, it is with a fair share of trepidation and chagrin that I “celebrate” news (such as the topic of today’s post) relating to new gadgets that facilitate–or
We still have a month left before 2009 comes to a close forever, but Merriam-Webster has already published its “words of the year” (what about the remaining 9% of 2009!?!?!?).
This concept is extremely important. I am not just talking about the education that a translator receives in their studies, but also about culture in general, which is even more
It’s common in our line of work for people to have doubts regarding proper punctuation in lists in Spanish. It’s important to keep certain principles in mind: the extent of
Thanksgiving has yet again befallen us, and all around the US (and in the many parts of the world where American expats and Americanophiles happen to be tucked away) folks
Years ago we used to see that translation agencies in various countries of the world would only work with a few language pairs, three or four at most. They worked
A reform to the health care system in the United States is coming, though the details of the new system are still being worked out. One aspect that is highly
Spoken by the Khan’s or Pashtuns (inhabiting Afghanistan and the west of Pakistan) as well as by groups in India, it is one of the official languages of Afghanistan, along
As I was searching for something on the Internet, I came across a very interesting point that brings up a topic of great importance for us today. “If I can’t