THE KEY TO TRANSCREATION IN TRANSLATION

  The translation industry is changing and growing in leaps and bounds. In this age of globalization and unstoppable development of technology, the language services that go hand in hand with these innovations must grow in tandem with them in order to meet the needs of companies and producers and make new products, in any … Read more

CAPTIONING, DUBBING AND VOICEOVER: TRANSLATION KEY FEATURES

The provision of language services is a professional trade with a presence that spans all industries and markets. We are all aware of the need for language localization in the technical and scientific sectors. In fact, these fields bring about a high percentage of translation work, since the production of documents relating to knowledge in … Read more

THE SUBTITLING TRANSLATION SECTOR

The translation industry covers a myriad of text sources that require translation, both via oral and written means. Based on this fact, the need arises to make a more precise distinction between those two forms, so we call the first one “interpretation” while we reserve “translation” for the written form. However, there is a common … Read more

THE TERMINOLOGIST’S PROFILE

The language services industry is made up of professionals who perform a multitude of different tasks. The business process of an assignment, from the moment a request is received to the delivery of the final translation and beyond, involves a large number of different linguistic tasks that are required in order to obtain successful results, … Read more

TRANSLATION FOR THE INSURANCE SECTOR

Security needs generate great demand in the world markets. At a time when scams and accidents occur daily, clients of different services aim for certain guarantees to be provided which promise to support them in the face of certain events. Thus, tourists traveling to a specific country may purchase plane tickets that provide the option … Read more

THE FUTURE OF TRANSLATION

Stargazing, pulling tarot cards, reading coffee grounds and interpreting palm lines are just some of the many ways in which human beings have tried to decipher the secrets of the future and win the race against the natural passage of time. This is partly due to an innate need to get ahead of events, either … Read more

WHAT ADVANTAGES DO TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATIONS OFFER?

No, we are not alone in the translation universe. Generally, professionals providing linguistic services tend to identify the industry they belong to with performing a quite solitary activity and in which sometimes it seems like we are alone in a sea of questions, both formal and about translation. However, although it is true that translation … Read more

STANDARD SPANISH IN TRANSLATION

Currently, both the Language Service Providers (LSPs) that offer translation into Spanish and the companies that create and sell products have a high awareness about how to approach their Spanish-speaking audience. When a company thinks about localising a product into the Spanish language, the LSPs usually ask them about the scope of the Spanish-speaking audience … Read more

SIMULTANEOUS SIMPLIFICATION

Providing linguistic services is an industry that has the goal of overcoming language and cultural barriers in endless contexts, manners, registers and recipients. Specifically, said industry is fundamentally based on two different types of services, each with its own scope of application, its own codes, its own workflows and, definitively, its own essence. These two … Read more