Posts by Jim Dulin
What to Look for in a Legal Document Translation Service
Monday, November 12th, 2018 Contracts and other legal documents are notorious for their complexity. They typically feature long, complex sentences and legal terminology. As a result, legal documents can be very difficult to translate. Because of how important this documents can be, you should entrust them only to the most qualified legal document translators that…
Read MoreThe Benefits Of Using Certified Translation Services When Translating Documents
When it comes time to translate documents from one language into another, there is a certain temptation to simply use Google Translate or one of the other widely available translation apps. After all, these apps are fine and they can do the same job as a professional translation service, right? On the contrary, certified translation…
Read MoreTranslation Services Help You Deal With Hard-to-Translate Languages (Part 2)
Welcome back to the second half of our two-part article on the hard languages to translate and how a translation service can help. Last time we talked about languages that are hard to translate vs languages that are hard to find translators for along with a few statistics. Let’s start back up at difficult languages…
Read MoreTranslation Services Help You Deal With Hard-to-Translate Languages (Part 1)
In the world of translation and interpreting not all languages are treated equally. The ability to translate between any two languages takes a fair depth of knowledge and contextual understanding, meaning that languages that are difficult to learn are also more difficult to source translations for because it’s not easy for translators to add them…
Read MoreMICA: The Four Cornerstones Of Translation
If the simple translation of a group of words into another language was all that’s required, any bilingual person could do it. In fact, computers do it all the time, simply exchanging words or phrases in one language for similar words and phrases in another. Of course that’s not nearly enough. In any type of…
Read MoreTranslation is Key, Locally and Online.
Never before has the world seen a more powerful, more open platform of communication than the internet. The pinnacle of man’s achievement, the internet has been a story of constant evolution, a story of triumph from humble beginnings in 1983, to the dawn of the World Wide Web in 1990, to today’s all-encompassing behemoth cloud…
Read More5 Reasons Your Business Might Need Professional Translation Services (Part 2)
Welcome back to the second half of our two-part article on why businesses often need professional translation services. Last time we talked about the importance of a localized website and how sometimes your investors might be from another country. Today, we’ll pick up with business partners! 3) Acquiring a Foreign Business Partner Business partners come…
Read More5 Reasons Your Business Might Need Professional Translation Services (Part 1)
When a company is founded, the last thing on the minds of the founders is the possible need for professional translation services in their future. Everything in those first few months, even years, is about getting established and proving the business plan. Then everything swirls around the need to build an increasingly broad customer base…
Read MoreAll Rise to the Challenges of Legal Translation
Lawyers are notorious for the way they take normal words and give them confusing meanings. For instance, in order to have a valid contract, there has to be consideration. A regular English-speaker reading that might think to themselves, “what a good idea to require that anyone entering into a deal consider what he or she is…
Read MoreA Mistranslated Word Can Change History
During the occupation of Germany after World War II, Germans who lived in Communist-controlled Eastern Zone fled to the West in large numbers. On August 13, 1961, the Soviet-controlled East German government began building a wall in the capital city of Berlin to prevent people from escaping. The division of Germany’s capital city shocked the…
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