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The “Foreign” Words You Speak Each Day

Many people speak more than one language. In the United States, the number of children who speak a language other than English continues to rise. According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, “In 2016, 22% of children in the United States—slightly more than 12 million kids total—spoke a language other than English at home. This rate has risen…by 1.2 million kids in the last decade.” Multilingual Rises, But English Remains the Ruler Though the population of multilingual people in the U.S. will continue to rise, the primary language spoken in

July 12, 2018 No Comments

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Fun & Interesting Facts About the 2018 FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup is held every four years in a different country and this year it will be held in Russia. The kick-off day is June 14, with matches that run through June and July until the final playoff game on July 15. The matches will be held in 11 different Russian cities: St. Petersburg Ekaterinburg Kazan Samara Volgograd Nizhny Novgorod Saransk Rostov-on-Don Kaliningrad Sochi Moscow The World Cup is an exciting time not only for soccer fans (or football fans, depending on what country you’re from), but for

July 4, 2018 No Comments

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5 Areas Where Transcription Can Help Your Business

The world is getting more connected by the second. As more businesses branch out to parts unknown, everyone has the opportunity to buy or sell with more companies than they ever thought possible. Technology has grown by leaps and bounds in the past 20 years and this has been the key to globalizing industry everywhere. The truth is, it’s not done growing yet and the more in-touch your business becomes with technology, the more in-touch you’ll need to be with transcription. Consider these five areas for improving your game. 1)

June 22, 2018 No Comments

Translation

When Businesses Look for Professional Translators, Will They Find You?

Translators are much like language masters. They take meaningless words and make them meaningful to different audiences. Translators can make business contracts written in German understandable to those whose native language is Dutch; websites designed in English legible in Spanish; and pharmaceuticals involving clinical trials in France understandable to those in Sweden. Skills You Need to be a Professional Translator Professional translators need to be fluent in more than one language, but there is much more to translation than knowing the words. The National Career Service points to these basic

June 14, 2018 No Comments

Translation

The Human Touch Makes Up for What AI Translation Lacks

In an age when translation is so important, you’ll find instant translation apps and programs that can help you no matter what ends of the earth you travel to. While these travel apps can be great in a pinch for asking innocuous questions, there’s no way that they’re going to help you close a deal, work out a solution in a heated discussion or help you truly understand the meaning behind someone else’s words. Globalization Has Changed the Game Language has taken humankind to distant places where people of opposite

June 7, 2018 No Comments

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3 Atypical Places Where Translation is Typically Important

Translating personal communication or legal documents is a fairly common task. There are, however, many fields in which translators are needed that are not as common—and most companies don’t think of those other areas until they’re in desperate need of one. These three fields are not often thought of as significant in translation, but they are becoming more important than ever. 1) Food Products For those who love to bake and cook, but have very little time to sit down and create a masterpiece from scratch, boxed mixes are a

June 1, 2018 No Comments

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How One Small Word Can Have One Big Meaning

Translation takes a written word from its original language and rewrites it in a different language while making sure it conveys the same meaning. Think it sounds simple? Sometimes it is, but sometimes it’s not. There are plenty of words that describe multiple feelings and situations all at once—and these don’t transfer over to another language that easily. Take, for example: Gattara This Italian word is closely related to the idea of a “crazy cat lady” in Canada, but without the “crazy” part. A gattara is an elderly lady who

June 1, 2018 No Comments

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The Importance of Animal Translations

Last year, a Giraffe named April stole the hearts of people all over the world. April the Giraffe was preparing to have a baby and the facility where she was housed, The Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y., installed a webcam so that people could watch when it was time for the baby to arrive. Little did anyone know that April and her baby would become world-famous; over 15 million people tuned in to watch the live birth on YouTube. April the Giraffe Around the World In English, she may

May 4, 2018 No Comments