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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

How Do We Quote DTP Services?

We often are presented with documents in the quoting process that need to go through a DTP (Desktop Publishing) stage either before or after the translation process. But, what is

March 26, 2014

How to Obtain New Clients Online

This presentation will give you the key elements to building a solid online marketing strategy

March 25, 2014

How Can We Develop Our Brain?

Recently Lund University, in Sweden, carried out research on the effects of learning a new language that proved the growth of the brain in various areas, one of them being

March 24, 2014

Atomic Errors

As translators and translator agencies, we are constantly running into erroneous or nonsensical translations. In some cases – such as the ones that we published in a post from a

March 20, 2014

Little Big Differences Between Spanish and Portuguese

Although there is a very close relationship between Spanish and Portuguese to the extent that oftentimes they display a high degree of mutual intelligibility, there are also considerable differences that

March 14, 2014

Technology to the Rescue of Endangered Languages

Just as photography was clearly preceded by painting or drawing, or as printed word had written word as its precursor, the recording of sound on the gramophone record lacked a

March 13, 2014

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