Machine Translation Vs Human Translation – Risks and Benefits
Translation is an indispensible communication tool for businesses and Governments; it helps smooth flow of communication between companies, with customers, and between countries as well. Translation refers to ‘the communication of a source language text through an equivalent target language text’, according to Wikipedia; in simpler terms, it means changing the language of the original […]
Translation Quality Assessment : Things You Need To Know
According to German linguist and translation studies scholar Julianne House, “translation is the result of a linguistic-textual operation in which a text in one language is re-contextualized in another language.” She goes on to say that this process is impacted significantly by many elements and conditions which are not exactly linguistic in nature – thereby […]
Back Translation – The Complete Guide with Real-Life Examples
When we talk about translation, we refer basically to forward translation – the transfer of a written text from one language (source language) to another (target language); it is an attempt to convey the message that was written in one language into another without changing the original meaning and intention. Translation takes into account the subtle nuances of the language, […]
How to deal with Untranslatable Words
While translating from one language to another, a translator may sometimes come across some words that they cannot find an appropriate alternative for. These are the untranslatable words – and any professional translator’s nightmare. Did you know that there is actually a science that deals explicitly with words and meanings of those words; just think – […]
Top 8 Different Industries that Need Translation Services
Until say 10 years ago, most companies may have thought that they didn’t need translation services, simply because nobody was thinking of going global, and/or because they thought that it was too expensive. However that is not the case today; we are living in the digital age. Thanks to the internet and explosion of ecommerce technologies, even small businesses […]