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How to Discern Between a Translator and an Interpreter

When you translate you interpret, and when you interpret you translate, but translation and interpretation are not the same thing. As professions, translation and interpretation have shared procedures and objectives

April 7, 2015

Why Children Aren’t Better Language Learners than Adults

Everybody’s favorite stereotypical excuse to not learning a foreign language is that adults can’t learn languages as well as children. The common misconception is that children’s brains are more elastic

February 9, 2015

Europe’s Contribution to the Future of English

In my last post “Translating…The Future” I wrote about one possible aspect of the future of the English language; the probability that it will become more and more simple over

January 27, 2015

Translators or Creators?

While we may translate messages from third parties, we nevertheless do so with our own words. Indeed, it is this choice of symbols and meanings that constitutes a creation and

December 17, 2014

The Mystery of the Untranslatable Book

In Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is a book that no one has ever been able to read. It is written in a non-existent or unknown language and features

May 14, 2014

Can Artificial Languages Be Established?

Artificial languages, that is, languages constructed by humans based on the study of “natural” languages, have been created throughout history for multiple (and, indeed, very interesting) reasons, although they have

April 30, 2014

Grammar Rules and New Means of Communication

The emergence and subsequent extension of a wide array of communication tools have paved the way for a vast series of changes related to the manner in which people express

November 21, 2013

The most spoken languages

Communication with others is essential for people to live together, whether in our own country with the people that surround us, or in another country far from our own. We

September 3, 2012

Considerations when translating marketing material

I usually recommend to customers looking to translate content created to communicate and promote their products and services that they seek a “creative writing” service. I explain that this is “added

January 25, 2011

How to tell if it’s a good translation

Not knowing a language and having the need to use it always gives me a feeling close to vertigo. The fantasy of traveling to exotic places is often ruined with

December 24, 2010

How to obtain an effective translation

The need for translation is, basically, the need for communication: to increase it, to reach other audiences, to be understood. For this reason, it is crucial that, even though the

November 5, 2010

Client Glossaries

As we have brought up in other posts, large translation projects need more care and attention in order to maintain consistency in the translation throughout the document(s). This coherence in

January 15, 2010

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