Translating for Video Games
The translation of video games sounds like a task that could be a lot of fun for many translation professionals, but the truth is not as simple as it seems.
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December 5, 2012
Another Translator to the Real Academia
On Friday, November 23, the Real Academia de la Lengua Española (Royal Spanish Academy) announced its newest academic member, the literary translator Miguel Sáenz, author of world-renowned Spanish versions of
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November 28, 2012
Literary Translation vs. Technical Translation
We all know that a professional translator also has to be an excellent writer, considering that he or she has to make sure that the final text is easy to
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November 21, 2012
The Work of Interpreters in Ancient China
As discussed in our previous article, “The First ‘Translators’ Were Interpreters,” China stood out historically because of the rise of translation/interpretation in different fields, such as philosophy, religion and science.
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November 18, 2012
The Collaboration Factor: Achieving Great Results
When a translation company is faced with a large-scale project, that’s when the skills of its translation team are put to the test. Large projects involve multiple challenges because they
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November 14, 2012
The Importance of a Thorough QA
As a result of the experience I’ve gained through the coordination and planning of translation and localization projects, I’ve discovered the importance of setting aside enough time to perform a
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November 8, 2012
The First “Translators” Were Interpreters
The beginnings of our profession were not easy if we consider that our colleagues of the past had to convey very sensitive messages, if not highly questionable military strategies, in
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November 4, 2012
The Linguistic Challenge in U.S. Elections
In the United States, election campaigns are driven both by substance and form, especially in relation to the languages used in the dissemination of political ads. With a Hispanic community
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November 1, 2012
What You Need to Know about Kurdish Dialects
Kurdish is a language belonging to the Indo-Iranian language family, and this one in turn belongs to the group of Indo-European languages. The family of Indo-Iranian languages also includes Hindustani
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October 27, 2012
Website Translation
Currently, the world is experiencing an era of such rapid technological advances that we see new technologies outdoing each other every day. Moreover, you can see that there are a
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October 24, 2012
An “Urgent” Writing Manual for the Web
The revamping of language runs parallel to the evolution of the media, which, willingly or not, are permanently engaged in the dissemination of the different linguistic uses and variants of
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October 17, 2012
Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu?
To provide but the briefest of accounts of this language, the first thing we could say is that you may find material on the language by looking up either of
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October 14, 2012
