Sometimes called the triple constraint, there are three factors that govern decisions in any project: time, money, and quality. These are certainly aspects of any translation project. TransForma always achieves a quality translation, and we aim to keeps costs at a minimum. Therefore, we highly encourage our clients to consider time of the highest value….
Jimmy Fallon Reveals Google Translate’s Errors The media spread the word about how Google Translate closed the language barrier between foreigners and Russians for those who traveled to Russia to watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup. While it may be an efficient method for understanding directions or what to order on a menu, it is…
In the summer of 2016, the Editors of Time magazine published a special edition book (and Ebook) called, The Science of Happiness: New Discoveries for a More Joyful Life. To communicate feelings of happiness, the book’s cover displayed a series of emojis that signaled happiness, joy, or love…but what if an individual is not familiar…
I’m Where? Imagine you purchased tickets, booked a flight, and flew to Russia to be a fan at one of the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches only to find that you are over 600 mi (about 975 km) away from the host city. Several fans experienced this recently when they booked hotels in the wrong…
One of the few downfalls of being raised in a country the whole world wants to come to us is that we may unconsciously develop geographic or cultural blinders. As children of immigrant parents from a Spanish-speaking country, we took Spanish in school because our parents made us, so we wouldn’t lose our mother tongue….
Have you ever found yourself wishing you had a translation service to help you comprehend the utterances of an Englishman from the north, a Scot or an Irishman? You know that the person speaking is very intelligent and highly accomplished (say, for example, Sir Alex Ferguson). You know they’re speaking English because every five seconds…
Top-level professional English-Spanish translators possess an in-depth knowledge of each language with which they work. Most everyone uses language in one way or another in the same way that most everyone can cook an egg, but professional translators use language in the same way professional chefs work with ingredients or knives. This profound knowledge invariably leads…
Translators are front-line witnesses to the fascinating tug-of-war between established authorities that act as the arbiters for the “proper” way to speak a language (e.g. the Royal Spanish Academy, the French Academy, the Oxford English Dictionary)… and life (do you remember when it was “electronic mail”, or have you noticed how “diss” has migrated from…
We recently did a translation from French to English of a commercial lease and a tax return from Monaco. Our translator, who is also a Florida-licensed lawyer with significant experience in commercial real estate, reports that while he was performing the translation, his mind wandered from time to time to lovely Monaco. Ah, Monaco!! When it…
The purchase by a foreign person or company of real estate in the United States, especially if the purchase is financed by an American bank, requires the review by the bank of tax, legal and financial documents from the buyer’s home country. Now, add the twist that the buyer wants to buy in the name…
