How to Know Which Translation Agency to Hire

Doubts plague you. You run a business and you want it to get a leg up, but it seems that it’s no longer enough to communicate or sell only in Spanish. So, you think that the perfect solution is to hire a translation agency to give you a hand. But, how do you choose the best? Depending on the type of business and the projects that a company regularly carries out, it’s not always possible to have contact with languages. Generally speaking, when there's an employee who speaks English in a company, they become the makeshift translator, responsible for drafting or translating a new project for a tender, a business e-mail or the presentation of the company's services.

Are translators born or made?

Translate comes from the Latin verb transfero which means to transcribe, to transform. Many theorists have developed translation competence models, such as D. Kelly, Nord, Campbell, Wills, Pym, Roberts or Delisle, among many others. This competence refers to the set of abilities, skills, knowledge and...

A Thousand and One Translators to Turn to at Least Once in Your Lifetime

Saying that someone is a translator is like saying that someone is a doctor. So, a doctor… but of what? We all know that it takes doctors a long time to specialize in order to reliably do their job. The same goes for translators, who...

What Translating Creole Languages is Like

The translation of creole languages can be quite a headache for translators at times since—as in the case of languages with a large number of speakers—the number of dialects is considerable and sometimes barely understandable for speakers of the same language. For written language, efforts are...

What You’ve Never Thought About Low-Cost Translations

For some time now, we’ve been hearing about the thousands of different ways the marketing departments of companies across all sectors have come up with everywhere—on the street, on the Internet and in the media—in an attempt to overcome the crisis we find ourselves in....

Should We Translate Neologisms or Not?

Mannequin challenge, crowdfunding, hipster, freaky, wearable, cookies, coworking;these are just some of the many out there and we're surrounded by them. We see them on the restaurant bill, in advertising, in technology, on the beauty center’s list of services, and in many other situations.Neologisms are inevitable as they keep popping up, and they are part and parcel of the natural evolution of any language.In this post, we're interested in evaluating the merits of translating neologisms in service companies.