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Best Practices for Translating Financial Documents with Accuracy

Best Practices for Translating Financial Documents with Accuracy Accurately translating financial documents is essential for companies operating in international markets. When financial data crosses language boundaries, any inaccuracies can have serious

November 13, 2024

5 Reasons to Use a Professional Translation Company

So you need to translate something and you’re considering your options. Perhaps you took some language classes in school, or maybe you’ve got an old friend who speaks the requisite

August 26, 2019

Some Writers Who Never Won A Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been granted to great writers across the globe, but even today the Swedish Academy has been criticized for having excluded various authors that have

December 24, 2014

Are We Just a Product of the Languages We Speak?

Each language has a particular grammatical structure and different ways of expressing ideas, which is something that anyone who has studied another language has experienced and which translators are particularly

November 4, 2014

Creative Translation or Literal Translation?

In the world of translation, a “literal translation” is that which follows its original word for word. In most cases, us translators opt for letting loose a bit from the source

October 29, 2014

False Friends in English and Spanish

While it is believed that there are widespread differences between Spanish, which is derived from Latin and is a Romance language, and English, which is known for its Germanic roots,

October 28, 2014

The Translation of Songs

Sometimes resulting from the decision of record producers, and at other times being part of the artistic expansion of singers and composers, as of the middle of the past century

October 15, 2014

Jabberwocky: An Example of Creative Translation

The strange word that appears in the title of this post, “Jabberwocky,” describes a strange monster that is the protagonist of a poem by the same name written by Lewis

October 1, 2014

Pleonasms in Legal English

Pleonasms—the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning—in oral and written forms of English legal jargon often take on a single meaning. They consist of synonyms taking

September 24, 2014

Mexico Heads towards Linguistic Independence

Intense debates have taken place to decide whether the Spanish language should be regulated by the Royal Spanish Academy, which, as you may know, is based in Spain and does

September 17, 2014

How Translation is Helping Languages from Going Extinct

There are over 7,000 thousand languages in the world today and more than 3,000 of those languages are in danger of becoming extinct. Most disappear when the last known native

June 25, 2014

Spanish Regionalisms and Idioms in Literary Translations

When reading a novel translated into Spanish, most readers hope it will have a “neutral” form of Spanish; that is, one without regional characteristics specific to any particular Spanish-speaking country.

March 5, 2014

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