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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.

May 15, 2013

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

May 14, 2013

Chinese: The Most Widely Spoken Language in the World

English has been the dominant global language for a century, and it is still recognized and studied in the majority of the countries worldwide; nevertheless, the most popular language is

May 10, 2013

What’s Expected of a Translator

The three key qualities that are expected of a translator or editor in order to achieve ideal productivity are quality, speed and efficiency. Quality is a very important factor for

May 8, 2013

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

May 3, 2013

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

May 1, 2013

Should Words in English Contain Accent Marks?

Growing up in a bilingual home setting, I was very lucky to learn both Spanish and English from a young age. I never had to think much about what I

April 29, 2013

American English vs British English

The English language is one tool to establish our viewpoint. American or British English are both dialects that can be chosen when requesting your English translations, or choosing an interpreter.Here

April 27, 2013

The Differences between Editing & Proofreading

Trusted Translations’ general process is to implement a three step translation process in order to achieve top quality of the translation. The question is: Do we know how to distinguish

April 26, 2013

What is a Back Translation?

Reverse translation, better known as “back translation,” refers to the translation process where a document is translated to a given target language and then that translation is translated back to

April 24, 2013

Certified Translation [VIDEO]

The Key elements of a Certified Translation Service In this video, Trusted Translations explains to you in 60 seconds the key elements of a certified translation. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXrHMaDf0Cs&version=3&hl=es_MX&showsearch=0&rel=0&modestbranding=1 Certified Translations and

April 20, 2013

More Commonly Misused Words

Referring back to the last blog post “Commonly Misused Words”, we were able to see how some words we were saying, writing, or have heard, were in fact, being used

April 16, 2013

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