European Commission staff have to write many different types of documents. Whatever the type – legislation, a technical report, minutes, a press release or speech – a clear document will be more effective, and more easily and quickly understood. This … Read More
Full name: Federative Republic of Brazil (Republica Federativa do Brasil) Official language: Portuguese (many Amerindian languages and a few European languages are also spoken, but the only official language is Portuguese) Government type: Federal presidential republic Parliament: Brazil has a … Read More
In space and time, the intensity of intercultural communication and interlinguistic exchanges largely depends on the quantity and quality of information translated from one language to another, but history has shown that circulation and “notoriety” of ideas do not merge … Read More
In space and time, the intensity of intercultural communication and interlinguistic exchanges depends largely on the quantity and quality of information translated from one language into another, but history has shown that the circulation and “notoriety” of ideas are not … Read More
Marc Bloch made the following criticism in The Historian’s Craft: ”It would still be annoying to see historians encumbering their observations with foreign expressions like those authors of rustic novels who, by their use of provincialisms, slip into a jargon … Read More
French: the most obvious feature of French texts is the large number of apostrophes, marking the elision of vowels. The most common are l’, d’ and s’ at the start of a word. Accents and diacritics used are: é, è, … Read More
Castilian Spanish / Catalan / Galician / Portuguese Castilian: has y as a single word — frequent use of final –d Catalan: has i as a single word — frequent use of final –t Catalan is the official language of … Read More
Professional translators know the meaning of the term “localized translation”. It is a translation that must be adapted to the target audience to which the translated text is addressed. For example, a company that makes computer processors used my translation … Read More
Many agencies and institutes of European Union (in fact, all of them) use the English as the main official EU language. But, after the UK decision to leave European Union, there will be no other country with English as main … Read More
In both space and time, the intensity of intercultural communication and interlinguistic exchanges depends in large part on the quantity and quality of information translated from one language to another, but history has shown that circulation and the “notoriety” of … Read More
It seems that the speeches, but mostly the elliptical answers and sudden shifts on various topics of Trump, give it a hardship for translators worldwide. Japan Times specifically states that, for the Japanese translators, Donald Trump is a nightmare. Chikako … Read More
‘To translate, all you need is a good dictionary.‘ = FALSE Translation is a profession. If a good dictionary were enough, bad translations would not be so common. (Think of all those incomprehensible instruction manuals or amusing hotel notices!) ‘Good … Read More
