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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
One of the most indisputable facts about the essence of languages is that they are dynamic in nature. From whichever angle we analyze the lexical, semantic, and grammatical elements that make up a language, we can always find a present time in which a series of specific aspects interact with one another, a past from … Read more
We cannot say that today there are exclusive correlations between a language and a single political territory where it is spoken by a particular community. By this we mean that there are not as many languages as there are countries and it is impossible to govern the development of a language or control its geographical … Read more
