Posted on 28 April, 2011 by Greg Jacobs
For professional translation service providers, the efforts by Google to make translation redundant through their online translation machine are frustrating. Any decent translation agency will state that an online translation machine will never be able to replicate the skill, intuition, knowledge and experience of a professional human translator. However, translation is all about language and [...]
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Posted on 26 April, 2011 by Greg Jacobs
On Friday the 29th of April, it is estimated that around 2 billion people will tune in to see Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot. Images of Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Pall Mall along with all the pomp and ceremony will be transmitted all over the world. For any fan of the British [...]
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Posted on 6 April, 2011 by Greg Jacobs
As more and more communities go online, the importance for companies, of using translation to capture the resulting, emerging markets has never been more important. According to Internet statistics compiled by ADOTAS, the internet advertising online magazine, 86% of Web users live outside the United States, and it is fair to say that substantial numbers [...]
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Posted on 17 March, 2011 by Greg Jacobs
We now live in a global economy and for companies this means communicating with customers on an international level. Speaking to customers in their native language displays your commitment to cater for their requirements. If your marketing messages are spoken or written clearly and features local culture then it gives a very positive effect. The majority [...]
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Posted on 26 January, 2011 by Greg Jacobs
When the world’s two most powerful leaders meet you would expect the translation service they receive is faultless. The recent visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to America’s capital cannot be underestimated as the relationship between these two countries impacts almost everyone else on the planet in some way. Sadly President Obama is not fluent [...]
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Posted on 19 January, 2011 by Greg Jacobs
Learning new languages as an adult, some will say is impossible. You will often hear people saying how they wish they could speak a foreign language or how they should have paid attention to their Spanish, French or German teacher. For most people, understanding how the human brain can learn a new language is just [...]
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Posted on 12 January, 2011 by Greg Jacobs
Globalisation has transformed the world but it has also had a debilitating effect on the earth’s languages. According to UNESCO, there are now 3,000 endangered languages worldwide. Since 1950, 350 languages have become extinct. That is out of a total of an estimated figure of 6,000 languages still in active use. So why is it [...]
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Posted on 14 December, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
The London Olympics in 2012 seem just around the corner. The first Olympic venue has been completed at the Lee Valley White Water Centre and the wooden track has been put down in the Velodrome. Everything is on schedule and as far as we know, on budget. What many people will be surprised to hear [...]
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Posted on 9 December, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
We, at Today Translations, are in the habit of stressing the importance of correctly translating your message. Mistranslations can make a business look foolish, but some people never learn. We all have stories of being in foreign parts and seeing funny signs at your accommodation or oddly named products in supermarkets. For your pleasure, in [...]
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Posted on 26 November, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
The figure of benevolence and fun we nowadays refer to as Santa Claus originated in the 4th Century in a part of the old Greek empire, which is now modern day Turkey. So whether Saint Nicholas of Myra spoke Turkish or Greek, it is hard to establish. If the former, he would today be known [...]
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Posted on 19 November, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
There are so many examples of poor translation, maybe a reality television programme called ‘When translations go wrong’ wouldn’t go amiss. The latest example to catch our eye is one that embarrassed Her Majesty’s Prison Service this week. A translation error at Lincoln Prison meant an exercise yard was labelled as an “execution yard” in the [...]
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Posted on 11 November, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
We now live in a truly global marketplace and for businesses this means communicating to customers on an international level. Speaking to customers in their native language shows your commitment to cater for their needs. If your marketing messages are spoken or written clearly and incorporates local culture then it gives a very positive impression. [...]
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Posted on 3 November, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
A quick trawl of Google’s collation of world news on any given week leaves no doubt as to the serious implications of poor or indeed absent translation. A man accused of murder in New Jersey is now being seen by supporters as having his human rights trampled, after a police interpreter failed to translate his [...]
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Posted on 29 October, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
A recently published report in America has looked at the market opportunities for translation and localization services in the pharmaceutical and medical devise sectors. The research has shown that there is huge demand for language and translation services in the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors. It is estimated that the pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing translation [...]
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Posted on 15 October, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
The demand for translators has been strong in Europe over several years. The main reason as to why this has been happening is because between 2004 and 2007 the number of official EU languages expanded from 11 to 23. In fact in 2007 an EU study found that of around 2,000 businesses, 11% had lost [...]
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Posted on 14 October, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
It was one of those rare occasions when all nations came together to celebrate a global good news story. A cacophony of languages from round the world were represented by the huge international press corps that descended on San Jose’s aptly-named ‘Camp Hope’ on Wednesday the 13th of October. The rescue of the 33 Chilean [...]
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Posted on 28 September, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
Simultaneous translation is perhaps one the hardest forms of translation possible. It requires a level of translation that is rarely found elsewhere. With written translation the translator has time to think about the translation. Simultaneous translators have a fraction of time to call upon his training and experience. For the best possible translation there is [...]
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Posted on 16 September, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
For some countries translation is a relatively straightforward. If you were to ask anyone in the UK “what do they speak in America?” the response would invariably be English. If you were to ask someone in the UK what language to they speak in France the answer would be French. There are however some countries [...]
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Posted on 24 August, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
The Welsh language has suffered another blow in recent news. With cost cutting being a major part of the coalition strategy to reduce the UK’s deficit, it appears that Welsh translation services for community councils could be an early victim. What makes this particularly tragic is that in parts of Wales the predominant language Welsh. [...]
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Posted on 19 August, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
The English Oxford dictionary has added more than 2,000 words in its annual update which all our readers will be delighted to hear includes the word – Vuvuzela! Yes it is official! The editorial team for the Oxford English dictionary had no choice but to add the word vuvuzela. After a world cup with plenty [...]
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Posted on 16 August, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
The recent news that the German economy grew by 2.2% between April and June has been hugely encouraging for all EU member countries. For Germany it was a record smashing period. The quarter-on-quarter growth has never been seen in reunified Germany and is testament to how well they are battling out of the recession. Germany [...]
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Posted on 13 August, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
Japanese to English translation is a well established and key international service. As the world’s third largest economy the country plays a crucial part to the global community and as such the demand for English to Japanese translation or Japanese to English translation is expected to remain strong for the foreseeable future. According to the [...]
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
Ever since the 1970’s and the birth of the package holiday which guaranteed sun, sea and fun in abundance the British public has flocked to Spain and in particular the Costa del Sol. In certain parts of the coast it would not be uncommon to find cafes serving English breakfasts or fish and chips. Put [...]
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Posted on 19 July, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
Certified translation There are many businesses and individuals who require translation services and specifically certified translation. For some businesses it may be more frequent and for individuals it might be common for the translation to be a one of. However these individual translations could be very important, say in translating your birth certificate so you [...]
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Posted on 13 July, 2010 by Greg Jacobs
In a global poll of language experts across more than 60 countries the word “Vuvuzela” outperformed “Waka Waka”, “Jabulani”, “bafana” and “Zakumi”. It has without question made the biggest World Cup impact of any word since “WAG’s” in the 2006 World Cup. “Vuvuzela” has been voted the “word of the World Cup”, in a global [...]
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