How On-Site Translations Can Help Your Business
Businesses are always looking to expand their markets once they reach a certain level of success, and a great way to expand is to reach
April 24, 2014
García Márquez and Translation
After hearing the sad news last week about the death of the great author Gabriel García Márquez, I began to think about how difficult it
April 23, 2014
On Tattoos and Translation
For a few years now, it’s been fashionable to get a tattoo of some word that has a special meaning for the person in question,
April 21, 2014
Does U.S. Spanish Exist?
On many occasions, when translators consult with our clients about which Spanish-speaking public they want to address, we come across the answer that “we want
April 18, 2014
Do You Want to Learn Spanish?
Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the world based on its number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese. It can therefore be very useful
April 16, 2014
European Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese?
Just as in previous posts we looked at the differences that exist in a single language depending on the region where it’s spoken, in this
April 11, 2014
What Is Nüshu?
This week, while surfing through an online video site, I came across a documentary on a group of women living in Hunan, a remote region
April 9, 2014
How to Translate a Publisher File
It is not that common, but occasionally it happens that a document to be translated is sent in MS Publisher format (.pub). This tool belongs
April 4, 2014
What Are Syntactic or Structural Anglicisms in Spanish?
When analyzing a text in Spanish, regardless of whether it is a translation or not, the term “Anglicism” refers to those linguistic equivalencies that use
April 2, 2014
Can We Learn through Subtitles?
As more and more options are provided to us in our attempts to learn languages, it seems that with each option new obstacles arise; thus
March 31, 2014
The RAE Has Entered the Homestretch of a New Edition
In recent days, the Real Academia Española (RAE) disclosed the incorporation of new terms into the new edition to be published in October, which will
March 28, 2014
How Do We Quote DTP Services?
We often are presented with documents in the quoting process that need to go through a DTP (Desktop Publishing) stage either before or after the
March 26, 2014
