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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

A “Behind-the-Scenes” Look at Website Translation

The decisions we make when preparing a quote for a website translation are crucial to the final outcome in terms of quality and price of the project. So when a

February 8, 2013

The Enormous Challenge of Translation in the European Commission

All major political and economic organizations that bring together a group of nations for a common purpose always represent a great challenge for translation professionals. In the case of the

December 26, 2012

Things to Know about the Malay Language

Malay is a language that belongs to the Austronesian family of languages, a group that encompasses languages spoken in parts of Southeast Asia, the Pacific, a small part of continental

December 18, 2012

The Collaboration Factor: Achieving Great Results

When a translation company is faced with a large-scale project, that’s when the skills of its translation team are put to the test. Large projects involve multiple challenges because they

November 14, 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

June 29, 2012

Translating an InDesign File to Arabic

Translation of an InDesign file can be quite easy, in the sense that no “excess noise” is generated when processing. Since InDesign files are compatible with Trados, they can be

April 30, 2012

Where Is Amharic Spoken?

The Semitic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages that took the name “Semitic” from the Biblical Shem, the son of Noah. The Semitic languages most widely spoken today are Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew,

April 26, 2012

Grammars: where Linguistics meets Computer Science

Noam Chomsky is a celebrity in many fields. Some translators get surprised when I mention that he is also well known in Computer Science. He invented (discovered?) a classification of

April 25, 2012

What Is an OCR Software?

An OCR software program is any computer tool or program that performs Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and is normally used in translation agencies for converting PDF files that come from

April 5, 2012

Sinhalese, Singhalese or Sinhala?

Sinhala is the officially recognized language in Sri Lanka, along with Tamil. Also known as Sinhalese and previously as Singhalese, it is the language of the Sinhalese people, the largest

March 30, 2012

Some Helpful Tips to Translate PDF Files

The process of translating MS Office documents or web pages with Trados or other CAT Tools is excellent, but many of the documents we receive to translate are in PDF

March 20, 2012

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