The Rosetta Project
It has been said that 95% of the world’s languages will become extinct within the next 100 years and that there is also very little documentation available for them. The
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July 5, 2012
How to make a client happy
There are several ways of making and keeping a client happy, of which the most important factor is obviously that the client receives a high quality translation. As an Account
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July 3, 2012
Europe’s Hopes and Dreams and Its Linguistic Reality
The latest publication from Eurobarometer (the survey system that collects statistical data on public opinion in Europe) yielded a series of figures that point to the increasing importance of multilingualism
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June 30, 2012
Translation in the World of Cinema
Most people do not appreciate the influence that the role of translators has when a filmmaker decides that his or her film will be dubbed into another language. If your
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June 29, 2012
The Spanish Invasion
There is a lot of talk about how Spanish is increasingly overrun by Anglicisms. However, it is also interesting to note that English, at present, has also borrowed a significant
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June 28, 2012
A tale of two translations
A couple of weeks ago, in the weekly Chess tactics lesson of my local club (Oh, no! Not another entry about Chess!), the game we were considering contained the following
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June 26, 2012
Burger Localization
As almost every company who sells products or services in multiple countries knows, localization is a very important part of an international marketing strategy. Whether a company decides to localize
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June 25, 2012
Translating Websites with Google
The benefits of automatic translation are beyond compare. So much so that just a few years ago (in 2009), Google launched a tool (complementary to Google Translate) that allows you
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June 20, 2012
It pays off to be persistent
Working as an Account Manager can be very intense at times, and multi-tasking skills are definitely required in order to be successful. Leads or quote requests are received by e-mail,
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June 19, 2012
Translating or Writing?
The old saying tells us that translators are privileged readers. However, I think we may venture to argue that, rather than mere readers, translators are privileged writers. Unless we rely
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June 14, 2012
Trusted Marketing Translations
The translation of marketing material ranks among Trusted Translations’ main linguistic activities. Every day we get requests from customers who are looking to expand their companies’ reach and who therefore
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June 13, 2012
Chess across languages
Surfing around, I came across this page, which presents the names given to the chess pieces in other languages: foreign names of chess pieces. It is very interesting to see
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June 12, 2012