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5 Areas Where Transcription Can Help Your Business

The world is getting more connected by the second. As more businesses branch out to parts unknown, everyone has the opportunity to buy or sell with more companies than they ever thought possible. Technology has grown by leaps and bounds in the past 20 years and this has been the key to globalizing industry everywhere. The truth is, it’s not done growing yet and the more in-touch your business becomes with technology, the more in-touch you’ll need to be with transcription. Consider these five areas for improving your game. 1)

June 22, 2018 No Comments

Translation

When Businesses Look for Professional Translators, Will They Find You?

Translators are much like language masters. They take meaningless words and make them meaningful to different audiences. Translators can make business contracts written in German understandable to those whose native language is Dutch; websites designed in English legible in Spanish; and pharmaceuticals involving clinical trials in France understandable to those in Sweden. Skills You Need to be a Professional Translator Professional translators need to be fluent in more than one language, but there is much more to translation than knowing the words. The National Career Service points to these basic

June 14, 2018 No Comments

Translation

The Human Touch Makes Up for What AI Translation Lacks

In an age when translation is so important, you’ll find instant translation apps and programs that can help you no matter what ends of the earth you travel to. While these travel apps can be great in a pinch for asking innocuous questions, there’s no way that they’re going to help you close a deal, work out a solution in a heated discussion or help you truly understand the meaning behind someone else’s words. Globalization Has Changed the Game Language has taken humankind to distant places where people of opposite

June 7, 2018 No Comments

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3 Atypical Places Where Translation is Typically Important

Translating personal communication or legal documents is a fairly common task. There are, however, many fields in which translators are needed that are not as common—and most companies don’t think of those other areas until they’re in desperate need of one. These three fields are not often thought of as significant in translation, but they are becoming more important than ever. 1) Food Products For those who love to bake and cook, but have very little time to sit down and create a masterpiece from scratch, boxed mixes are a

June 1, 2018 No Comments

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How One Small Word Can Have One Big Meaning

Translation takes a written word from its original language and rewrites it in a different language while making sure it conveys the same meaning. Think it sounds simple? Sometimes it is, but sometimes it’s not. There are plenty of words that describe multiple feelings and situations all at once—and these don’t transfer over to another language that easily. Take, for example: Gattara This Italian word is closely related to the idea of a “crazy cat lady” in Canada, but without the “crazy” part. A gattara is an elderly lady who

June 1, 2018 No Comments

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The Importance of Animal Translations

Last year, a Giraffe named April stole the hearts of people all over the world. April the Giraffe was preparing to have a baby and the facility where she was housed, The Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y., installed a webcam so that people could watch when it was time for the baby to arrive. Little did anyone know that April and her baby would become world-famous; over 15 million people tuned in to watch the live birth on YouTube. April the Giraffe Around the World In English, she may

May 4, 2018 No Comments

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I Just Came to Say Hello

Hello, how are you today? If you live in a country such as the United States, where English is the most common language spoken, this is a phrase that you might utter a few times a day. If you live there and say hello in a different language, however, you’re still in good company, and that company may be getting more common. English as the Main Language According to the Census Bureau, the number of people who speak a Language Other Than English (LOTE) will continue to “slowly increase over

April 27, 2018 No Comments

International development

Finding the Right Translation for a Corporate Culture

Though English is one of the top spoken languages in the world, not having the ability to translate other languages “can be one of the biggest mistakes a business—especially those in the financial services sector—can make,” says World Finance. It’s a Big World Out There Translation is often the last thing that businesses think about when making plans and setting goals. However, with the rapid pace in which globalization is occurring each day, it should be on the top of the list. Translation has the power to make or break

April 18, 2018 No Comments