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Derby or Clásico?

As a Spanish-speaking translator, one straddling the ancestral variant of the language and its rioplatense lineage, I am often fascinated by the marked differences that exist between the expressions of

September 19, 2012

Learning New Languages

There can be many reasons to learn a new language. Sometimes we learn them because it’s part of our school curriculum, or for work. Sometimes it’s just for the pleasure

September 12, 2012

Anne Dacier’s Translation Legacy

In almost every discipline there are certain individuals who achieve fame and become memorable; they are admired by their peers in the field. These personalities usually transcend their area of

September 12, 2012

How does a Phone Interpretation Service work?

Language barriers can ruin many business opportunities. It can be very frustrating for a company to try and break into a new market without having the full capacity to speak

September 11, 2012

A menu in Spanish

Continuing with the “Olympic spirit”, I read recently that before the 2006 Olympic Games in Peking, the city carried out a translation and a “standardization” of food names into English.

September 5, 2012

What are the duties of a translation Account Manager?

Being an Account Manager is not the same as a Sales Manager, as there are a few additional duties that need to be taken into consideration. The job duties for

September 4, 2012

Renaming Files for Website Translations

Consider the following scenario, which has come up a few times in our company: we need to translate a web site that has got lots and lots of files, all

September 4, 2012

The most spoken languages

Communication with others is essential for people to live together, whether in our own country with the people that surround us, or in another country far from our own. We

September 3, 2012

A universal language

After several attempts to make it a universal language, this year Esperanto celebrates its 125th anniversary. Created in 1887 by Lázaro Zamenhof, Esperanto is used in many media forms, as

August 30, 2012

The importance of orthotypography

Though it is generally not a well known field, orthotypography is a key part of the process of text correction. According to José Martínez de Sousa, one of the most

August 27, 2012

UTF-8 vs UTF-16

Most, if not all, translators nowadays use some kind of CAT tool to help them with their work. Trados has been the standard for the past few years, and it

August 24, 2012

More Colloquial Expressions from Spain

This week I devoted a few hours to transcribing a series of talks on business leadership, which were given by a Basque speaker. The experience reminded me once again of

August 22, 2012

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