About 10 years ago, one of our translators became enthralled with cigar making, particularly the culture of Cuban cigar making. Tobacco and cigars are to Cuba what wine was (and perhaps still is) to France. They are more than economic activities; they are deeply woven into Cuban culture and national identity. Our translator’s fascination led…
Short answer: you can bank on us. We’ve been providing translation services to the Miami agency of a foreign bank for nearly 10 years, as part of the work on translation of business documents. Principally, we’ve been performing Spanish-to-English translation of the minutes of Board of Directors’ and committee meetings. However, our work has also…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
The short answer is: not always. Let’s be honest. Translation can be expensive, and buying translation services can be confusing. There are times when you need a trained, experienced, credentialed translator. And there are times when you don’t. Say your Indonesian client sends you an email in English, but the email is part of a…
