Machismo in Spanish Writing?
I frequently notice in translations from English into Spanish that the translator attempts to make explicit an author’s reference to both sexes with the following
How to Use SDL Multiterm in Trados Workbench
This video offers a brief, succinct lesson on how to use MultiTerm as a plug-in in Trados Workbench, to create glossaries during a translation project.
The Peritextual Environment
There is a big difference between competence in a field and encyclopedic knowledge. “Competence in the field” is everything related to the concrete information related
New Multilingual Web Search Tool
Consider my mind blown. I was pointed to 2lingual.com the other day by a friend who shares my interest in multilingual information and I am
The Baltic Languages: Lithuanian and Latvian
Within the Indo-European language family are to be found the Baltic languages. The two languages of this subfamily that survive at present are Lithuanian and
The World Bank’s Language Policy
I never cease to discover new facts about the world that stun me to silence. Rebecca Harris at Foreign Policy recently published an article addressing
The Million Word Followup
As I mentioned earlier, the Global Language Monitor previewed the introduction of the one millionth word to the English language. Great publicity followed. They have
When Speaking the Same Language Doesn’t Mean Being Able to Communicate
Today we’ll shift gears a bit and recommend a highly awarded film: “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” directed by Wayne Wang. It earned itself
Translator Training Programs
One of the great difficulties I have encountered in my professional career as a translator was moving from someone who can understand a few languages
Reading the Text Before Translating
The translator starts the first stage of the translation process, the understanding stage. The purpose is to extract all content and expressive value to then
