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Japanese translation is frequently requested at the best of times, but with athletes from all over the world competing at the Tokyo Olympics, this service is even more popular at present. Aside from being host to the world’s largest sporting event, Japan is also the world’s 3rd largest economy and represents a huge commercial opportunity…

Machine translation technology has seen a huge upsurge in recent times due to the time and cost advantages that it offers. In this blog we look at how best to use machine translation for your translation needs.   Defining Machine Translation   First of all, we should define machine translation: simply put, machine translation describes…

  Tell us more about yourself!   I’m a freelance translator, providing translation services from French and Spanish into English, my mother tongue. I’ve been working as a translator for 18 years now. That time has flown by! I make the most of the flexibility afforded by working on a freelance basis, balancing work with…

The first few months of 2021 in our translation agency have been amongst our busiest ever. A combination of translation projects from long-standing clients combined with translation requests from clients who have only just joined us have really kept the teams across all offices busy providing translation services. In this blog, we will talk about…

Document translation, e-learning translation and remote interpreting have become key services for businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic, as the global lockdown has forced companies from many different industries to transform their processes in a very short period of time. For international organisations particularly, with employees speaking languages other than English, document translation – and related…

What is transcreation?   The word transcreation is derived from the words translation and creation. As implied by its etymology, transcreation is not just about translating a text into another language. Transcreation is designed to replicate the impact of the text on the reader in the target language so that the transcreated content provokes the…

One of the wonderful things about language is the way in which different languages influence and draw their origins from each other. You may know that the word ‘Halloween’ itself is derived from the English All Hallows’ Eve, but we decided to delve deeper into the etymology of some of the holiday’s essential spooky words!…

  Brexit has caused a major shake-up for businesses that had been planning to expand into Europe. The uncertain nature of what the future holds for the UK’s relationship with countries like France, Germany and Spain has seen fewer companies seek a new footprint within EU territory and instead, they are looking further afield. In…