“I feel like learning a new language” is something we tend to hear and even think. The problem lies less in being motivated than it does in finding the motivation. Once you’ve managed to do that you’re faced with an even tougher task: finding the time to do it. If there’s scarce time to be […]
In my last post, “Are We Just a Product of the Languages We Speak?,” I wrote about how the linguistic structure of a language can impact the way we think and understand the world around us, based on how different languages express the same ideas in linguistically distinct ways.In this post I will highlight two […]
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, but in another language… and especially in languages that use a different alphabet than our own. Coming in first are Japanese and Chinese, but it’s increasingly common to see tattoos […]
As translators and translator agencies, we are constantly running into erroneous or nonsensical translations. In some cases – such as the ones that we published in a post from a few weeks ago in which we cite some examples taken from the cinematic world – they end up being comical. However, translation is a key […]
Having worked as both a Project Manager and an In-house Editor here at Trusted Translations, I have come across quite a few interesting requests. While we usually deal with typical Word and Excel documents, PDFs, and other types of editable files, sometimes, we receive scanned items, illegible handwritten notes, tables full of numbers and abbreviations, […]
As a Spanish speaker used to always finding the accents in the same corner of my keyboard, whenever I happen to use someone else’s keyboard I’m filled with frustration because inevitably I will get a discomfiting ç or a mocking ? instead of the needed á. On my keyboard, the ñ is always at hand, […]
On the one hand, one of my hobbies is to read books on economics, despite my background in biology. At any rate, I am sure this connection comes through my interest in neurobiology and psychology, lingering through sociology and ending up in economics. On the other, I can’t help but reading books and papers through […]
The Korean writing system dates back to 108 B.C., when the area that is currently North Korea was occupied by China. Some linguists believe that language may be a member of the Altaic language family. (Turkic, Mongol, Tungusic, and also the Japonic and Korean languages.) In the 5th century AD Korean was written in classical […]
Intercultural communication, according to Ting-Toomey, involves a process of symbolic exchange in which individuals from two (or more) different cultural communities negotiate shared meanings in an interactive situation. With respect to websites, many times that symbolic exchange is limited only to what the site communicates both through its content and also by the form. For […]
The FIFA World Cup is one of the great spectacles known to man. It carries more weight for some people than for others, but it is a part of everyone’s life. It is a common topic of conversation, even for those who are not normally soccer fans, even in countries whose teams are not participating […]