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Trusted Translations has launched its multilingual translation sites in Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Chinese and Japanese.

These are the homes of the main sites in those languages, as well as a short description of each site in its language.

• Portuguese Site:

Tradução
Líder em Traduções de Português: Trusted Translations, Inc. Traduções de português de qualidade ao melhor preço, realizadas por tradutor/equipes de tradução especializados.

• French Site:

Traduction
Leader en traduction en français: Trusted Translations, Inc. Des traductions en français de qualité aux meilleurs prix réalisées par des équipes de traducteurs spécialisés.

• Dutch Site:

Vertaling
Leider in Nederlandstalige Vertaling: Trusted Translations, Inc. Nederlandstalige kwaliteitsvertalingen door gespecialiseerde vertalersteams tegen de beste prijs.

• Italian Site:

Traduzione
Azienda Leader nella Traduzione in Italiano: Trusted Translations, Inc. traduzioni in italiano di qualità e ai migliori prezzi, effettuate da team di traduttori esperti.

• German Site:

Übersetzung
Führend auf dem Gebiet von Übersetzungen aus dem Deutschen: Trusted Translations, Inc. Übersetzungen von höchster Qualität aus dem Deutschen, angefertigt von professionellen Fachübersetzer-Teams zu besten Preisen.

• Japanese Site:

翻訳
リーズナブルな料金でご提供する経験豊かな翻訳家チームによる確かな品質の日本語翻訳。

• Chinese Site:

翻譯
专家级翻译团队以最优价格提供高质量中文翻译

As I mentioned last week, this will be my last post for the blog. With that said, I wanted to take a moment and welcome the newest members to our team:

-María Cecilia - Spanish Translation Blog

-Scott and Killian - English Translation Blog

Both blogs will have new participants which will make it that much more enriching for everyone.

You are all officially invited to take a look at the new weekly articles and leave your comments.

Enjoy!

Waste Reduction

Trusted Translations’ goal is to use Internet technology to decrease its printing costs and improve its overall environmental performance in several ways.

• Limited use of mail courier services – Try to encourage clients who insist on sending and receiving hard copies of materials to consider using alternative delivery methods when using our services.  In addition to decreasing the use of printers and other materials such as CDs and DVDs, this also reduces the pollution and use of non-renewable resources that result from freight services.
• Fax to email service – Trusted Translations has implemented Internet Fax Services.  This service automatically converts all incoming faxes into digital files and delivers them to us via email.  This avoids the use of any paper and ink for incoming faxes.  The Vonage Fax service allows for outgoing faxes directly from PDF or Word, hence, avoiding have to a print a document to fax.
• Intra-staff communications – All internal communications should be distributed electronically.  For instance, instead of printing and posting new internal policies, we will upload them to our internal Wikipedia (“TTPedia”) and management will send out an email with a link to the new policy.
• Project-related reference materials – Try not to print any project-related files unless absolutely necessary.  In order to avoid duplicated copies when these project-related hard copies are deemed necessary, please pick up documents that have been sent to the printer without delay.

In-House Recycling Program

• Facilities will be put in place to promote an in-house recycling program of all reusable and reducible office byproducts. Paper, glass, tin/aluminum, plastic containers and plastic bags will be separated.

Trusted Translations is following the 10 Elements for Improving Environmental Performance and Compliance issued by the enforcement working group under the auspices of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC).

Most translators have heard of the new online machine translation option called “Google Translate”. While many would argue that machine translations have several issues regarding accuracy and the inability to understand the text like humans do, this has become a widely popular tool, so much so that YouTube recently announced the launch of a Translate option for captioned videos.

This feature provides real-time translations of video captions with a variety of language options, all powered by Google Translate. While YouTube readily admits that machine translations have flaws, they hope to make their videos more accessible to a broader audience.
Here are the instructions from YouTube’s blog: “To get a translation for your preferred language, move the mouse over the bottom-right arrow, and then over the small triangle next to the CC (or subtitle) icon, to see the captions menu. Click on the “Translate…” button and then you will be given a choice of many different languages.”

Take a look at how this works with the link below.

YouTube Translation

So what do you think? Will the widespread use of machine translations, particularly Google Translate, cause a stir amongst more traditional translators? Or is this just another way to help tackle the language barriers?

If you are a company looking to expand your market internationally, you have most likely already considered using translation services to translate your business material, but have you really thought about which languages you would like your material to be translated into? Of course, this decision largely depends on your target market, location and products and services offered, however you may also want to translate your material so that it is accessible for speakers of some of the most common languages.

Take a look below; you may be surprised at the results!
According to Ethnologue, these are the most widely spoken languages around the world from the year 2000, listed by population of native speakers.

1.    Mandarin Chinese (836 million)
2.    Hindi (333 million)
3.    Spanish (332 million)
4.    English (322 million)
5.    Bengali (189 million)
6.    Arabic (186 million)
7.    Russian (170 million)
8.    Portuguese (170 million)
9.    Japanese (125 million)
10.    German (98 million)
11.    French (72 million)

Trusted Translations, Inc. announced the launch of Spanish Post Production, a division of the leader in Spanish Translation, dedicated to offering transcription, subtitling, dubbing and Voice Over Services into Spanish.

Here is the Press Release at our Corporate Site:

Spanish Translation Leader Launches Spanish Post Production Division

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