A study commissioned by the National Association of Realtors reveals that in the 12 months ending March 2014, home sales to international clients totaled $92.2 billion. This amount is 35 percent more than the $68.2 billion of the 12 months ending in March 2013. Both the number of transactions and…
Even when you are careful, sometimes emergency translations come up. Maybe you need to get a letter to your business associate in Russia right away or you find the last paragraph of the document for your colleague in Japan never got translated. At this time, you need an express translation.…
They may have been beaten back by the English in 1588, but that didn’t stop the Spanish marching around the world, taking their beautiful language with them. As professional translators, we work in Spanish almost every day, which made us wonder: How did this colourful expressive language travel the length…
Understanding legal documents can be difficult. This can particularly become a problem when the documents are not in the individual's native language. With many industry-specific terms, expert translation of legal documents is not always an easy task, but translation is not impossible if you use a company with the right…
We have skilled agents able to translate between many language pairs - the majority of our projects involve translating either to or from English. In fact 1 in every 4 people on the planet speaks English to varying degrees of competence. With its many spelling quirks and our ever diminishing…
It may not seem that way for doctors, but for many patients, it can feel like their medical provider is speaking a foreign language as the person uses medical terminology and scientific terms which are not familiar to the patient or the patient's caregiver. This becomes even more difficult if…
The English language, while a thing of beauty, is also greatly complicated by a web of rules. If English is your second language, you will have spent many hours memorising not just vocabulary and unconventional spelling formats, but also the language’s numerous quirky grammar rules. English as a language is…
When the U.S. Constitution was put in place, not everyone in the country spoke English. Because of this, the Constitution and other legal documents were soon translated into both Dutch and German to accommodate the large German population of Pennsylvania and the Dutch-speaking residents of the Albany, New York area.…
When it comes to translations, it's not only the equivalent words that matter. Fluent understanding of both languages is imperative to the process of course, but at Teck Language Solutions we know that having a thorough knowledge of the relevant industry is just as vital. As a translation agency with…
Scotland votes on independence on September 18th, 2014. While businesses both sides of the border fret about the economic implications of an Independent Scotland, here at Teck Translations, we can see only a blossoming opportunity. If the English can fight hard enough, the Scots may be forced to drop English…