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Game of Thrones in the Real Academia

Much has been said about the Real Academia Española of late. Much has also been said about its academics, sitting in ornate chairs with their corresponding letter engraved in wood

April 25, 2014

How On-Site Translations Can Help Your Business

Businesses are always looking to expand their markets once they reach a certain level of success, and a great way to expand is to reach out to foreign markets as

April 24, 2014

García Márquez and Translation

After hearing the sad news last week about the death of the great author Gabriel García Márquez, I began to think about how difficult it must have been to translate

April 23, 2014

On Tattoos and Translation

For a few years now, it’s been fashionable to get a tattoo of some word that has a special meaning for the person in question, but in another language… and

April 21, 2014

Does U.S. Spanish Exist?

On many occasions, when translators consult with our clients about which Spanish-speaking public they want to address, we come across the answer that “we want a translation in U.S. Spanish.”

April 18, 2014

Do You Want to Learn Spanish?

Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the world based on its number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese. It can therefore be very useful to know, given that it

April 16, 2014

European Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese?

Just as in previous posts we looked at the differences that exist in a single language depending on the region where it’s spoken, in this post we’ll analyze the differences

April 11, 2014

What Is Nüshu?

This week, while surfing through an online video site, I came across a documentary on a group of women living in Hunan, a remote region in southern China, who have

April 9, 2014

How to Translate a Publisher File

It is not that common, but occasionally it happens that a document to be translated is sent in MS Publisher format (.pub). This tool belongs to the Microsoft Office packet,

April 4, 2014

What Are Syntactic or Structural Anglicisms in Spanish?

When analyzing a text in Spanish, regardless of whether it is a translation or not, the term “Anglicism” refers to those linguistic equivalencies that use a structure similar or identical

April 2, 2014

Can We Learn through Subtitles?

As more and more options are provided to us in our attempts to learn languages, it seems that with each option new obstacles arise; thus making it more complicated for

March 31, 2014

The RAE Has Entered the Homestretch of a New Edition

In recent days, the Real Academia Española (RAE) disclosed the incorporation of new terms into the new edition to be published in October, which will mark the grand culmination of

March 28, 2014

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