Monthly Archives: September 2017

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The Advantages of a Small Translation Agency

You’re a small multinational company doing business in several countries throughout the world, and you need to produce a steady output of documents, presentations, brochures, legal contracts, manuals and even regularly update your website content in one or more languages.  You need an agency that can provide you with translation and other services into English,…

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With Free Translation, You Get What You Pay For

While many functions formerly performed by human beings (think wholly logical areas like mathematics) can today be performed flawlessly and quickly by machines, other functions not wholly governed by logic (say, translation, for example) still require human effort to be performed properly. Many translation agencies offer seemingly unbeatable low rates for machine translation, with an…

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You Know Your Translator … Sort Of.

You’re an experienced and well-regarded immigration attorney. You’ve been retained to shepherd a family through an EB-5 visa application, and you contact your translator of choice. But you can’t reach him … he’s decided to hang up his dictionary, his dictation equipment and his PC, and go sailing. So you start looking. You land on…

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Literal Translations Don’t Always Work

Too often, an inexperienced (or incapable) translator will focus on the correct translation for each word in a sentence or phrase, and the result, due to the mysteries of language and human expression, is a translation that fails to accurately communicate the true meaning of the source material, or that communicates the meaning in stilted,…