And in India…
More than a billion people speak Hindi in the world, as it is one of the official languages of India, one of the most populated countries in the world. India
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January 14, 2011
Idiom ignorance
Idioms, which many translators are loathe to agree, are unavoidable in translation. While most people with a solid understanding of the source language shouldn’t come up against too many hurdles,
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January 13, 2011
Globalization
Most experts agree that the process of globalization is the result of the laws and trends in the global economy. The disintegration of socialism was a factor in speeding up
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January 12, 2011
What is GALA?
GALA, the acronym of Globalization and Localization Association, is an international non-profit organization whose members specialize in language services, translation and technology applied to this industry. Its members include translation
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January 11, 2011
Which Chinese language should I translate to?
A lot of the time, when someone sends something to be translated into Chinese, they are unaware of the wide variety of dialects that are used as much on the
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January 10, 2011
April Fool’s Day… How it translates into other cultures
The current festivities differ greatly from the Bible story that bore the legend – the date marks the death of all children under two years old born in Bethlehem of
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January 5, 2011
How to stand out from the crowd
At our company we have literally thousands of translators on our books in all language pairs. Yet only a few are regularly used for each language. Really good translations that
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December 30, 2010
Ebonics
In the 90’s, some academics started a movement to study the language that part of the U.S. African American population speaks, which is somewhat “different” than English taught in schools.
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December 29, 2010
Translation into Spanish on the Internet
The translation industry has benefited greatly from the opportunities offered by the Internet, not only to offer their products and services en masse, but also to take advantage of any
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December 28, 2010
Time and Translation
Today, whether in the world of translation or any other, there never seems to be enough time. We are always running behind, always getting places late and always running out
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December 27, 2010
How to tell if it’s a good translation
Not knowing a language and having the need to use it always gives me a feeling close to vertigo. The fantasy of traveling to exotic places is often ruined with
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December 24, 2010
December 24, 2010
