Working within a team in a company, or independently? Choosing salaried employment or freelancing? It can be a dilemma for a professional translator. One must be aware of their own expectations and career prospects offered by the translation sector in order to establish a foothold in the profession.
« Understanding is the key to translate », such is the creed of linguists, but what must one understand? Words? Meaning? Understanding a word is of little value if the inherent meaning is misunderstood, yet to understand the intended meaning, one must analyse the context. Hence, one is unable to understand, without context.
History is strewn with translation errors resulting in consequences, some more serious, and some more amusing than others.
Today, the use of AI dubbing grows hand in hand with AI integration and audiovisual communication. What was deemed “unthinkable” and out of reach just a few years back, is very quickly becoming the standard practice. Who would’ve thought that a top shelf professional dubbing and voice-over service, would be a few hundred euros away? However, one must tread carefully, for without proper quality control, the results of an AI dubbing may be catastrophic. Discover in this article how to create cost-effective, high-quality content.
The Japanese language is structured differently than English, in both spoken and written form. Some expressions can be articulated more easily and fluently in Japanese while others cannot. This makes Japanese translation a bit more tricky than usual.
Here’s a short overview for top growing markets and languages. It’s a quick start guide for businesses and entrepreneurs that are searching for strategic target markets for web page translation of their digital content.
The main goal for all online business sites is to appear at the top of search engine results to attract a high number of visitors (traffic), prospective clients (leads), and, finally, clients (conversion). And of course, this can apply to the internet of any country by offering content in the language(s) of each target country.
In business and life, everything depends on good communication. In professional translation and interpretation, people’s own culture also continues to shape language over time.
At a time when the future of our economy depends on maintaining and actively developing international business relations, and when the vast majority of multilingual professional interactions must take place remotely, the question of translation and interpreting—particularly through solutions like remote interpreting—has never been so crucial to build relationships of trust and make up for the phasing out of direct, in-person contact.
Extraordinary situations give rise to innovative changes; and while planes are grounded, videoconference translation solutions and other videoconferencing tools are taking off now. Once again, new technologies will allow the most responsive and best-prepared decision-makers to adapt to the unprecedented circumstances lying ahead. In just a few weeks, videoconference translation has become a key enabler, democratizing and boosting international calls.