HOW MISTAKES IMPACT BRAND IMAGE

The importance of interlinguistic services for businesses and in the interest of our clients cannot be emphasized enough. When the goal of a company is to introduce and market a product or service in a given region, regardless of its size, a research study is commissioned to find their target audience, what captures their attention … Read more

FEASIBILITY OF AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION FOR LITERARY TEXTS

Today’s translation activity is inextricably bound with technology and consistently feeds off the breakthroughs in the sector. Nowadays, the concept of a production chain within a language service provider that does not consider the use of computer resources and is not in a constant search for innovation that streamlines and optimizes workflow is practically unimaginable. … Read more

FICTIONAL LANGUAGES

Approximately 7,000 languages are spoken today, but we mustn’t forget all those that have become extinct due to lack of use or the fact that the last speakers, or guardians, have died. As noted before, languages, as far as linguistics and contrastive etymology have allowed us to discover, arise as a result of the evolution … Read more

THE 4-DAY WORKWEEK IN THE TRANSLATION INDUSTRY

At present, there is an ongoing debate about which measures could be adopted to improve employees’ working conditions. This is due to the fact that there is increasing evidence of the psychological impact that mounting workloads and a lack of tools to manage various workplace-related situations have on staff members: these situations include work peaks, … Read more

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION PRE-EDITING

In the current translation context, understood as professional practice, everybody is aware that the expert’s task does not only consist in sitting in front of a text that has been written in one language and render it in the target language. Even though interlanguage reproduction remains the fundamental objective of translation services, workflow dynamics have … Read more

THE ROLE OF NDAS IN TRANSLATION

The language service provision industry aims to localize both oral and written content from a source language into different languages. As we know, this content can come in a wide variety of types depending on the field of knowledge they cover (medicine, law, technology, etc.), the medium they are distributed in (audiovisual, text, gestural, etc.) … Read more

A MONOLINGUAL WORLD

When we look at the world’s map, who amongst us hasn’t felt overwhelmed while trying to grasp its vastness? At first glance, the world is a set of land formations that are distanced from each other, bathed by a majestic body of water. But it is also the territory throughout which an endless number of … Read more

THE ROLE OF THE PROOFREADER

The language services industry is brimming with professionals who, as a whole, form a truly precise and specialized production network. With regards to the life cycle of a translation project, clients will be directly or indirectly assisted by a group of people, where every professional fulfills a specific role. We all know that prior to … Read more

WRITING EMAILS FOR TRANSLATION CLIENTS

When discussing the keys to success in translation, we often think about the very nature of the translated product, the quality exhibited by our final product. That is why we, as professionals in the language services sector, devote a great deal of effort to improving all translation-related processes. This is demonstrated by the countless resources … Read more

PROMOTING ONESELF IN THE TRANSLATION SECTOR

As translation professionals, we spend a great deal of time thinking about how we can improve our work, what we can contribute to the sector and what new goals we can set for ourselves throughout our career. To that end, we usually resort to all kinds of resources that are related to learning and acquiring … Read more