One Keyboard for All?

As a Spanish speaker used to always finding the accents in the same corner of my keyboard, whenever I happen to use someone else’s keyboard I’m filled with frustration because
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What Are False Friends?

The great thing about exploring a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and others) is the many similarities one will find amongst certain words in these various languages. It’s always
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Brand before Product

There are a lot of product brands that impose themselves so heavily on the market that they end up really owning their product name. It is a very interesting phenomenon,
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Choosing the Right Words

At Trusted Translations we work with a wide variety of customers whose projects lie in many different areas of knowledge. This varied spectrum spans anything from literature to the most
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A Unique Language

Language carries with it information about who we are, how we express ourselves, our culture, and how we define the world around us. While taking a closer look into the
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Translation Memories

What is a translation memory? A translation memory or TM as it is often referred to, is a bilingual file that contains text in one language, as well as the
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Día E Is Near

Since 2009, on the Saturday closest to the summer solstice, the Cervantes Institute celebrates Día E (S Day): “the holiday of all Spanish speakers,” as advertised by the Center itself.
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Fun with Homophones

Last week we spoke about a curious group of words known as heteronyms: words that are spelled the same as each other, but which are pronounced differently. Aside from being
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Web Site Translations

The decisions we must make when quoting a web site are fundamental to the quality and costs of the project’s end results. Therefore, when a potential client inquires about a
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How About Some Dictionary Interaction?

Translators, editors, lexicologists, philologists, poets and other language professionals will no doubt find a novel source of joy in this new online resource: an interactive (and very practical) version of
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