Whenever political alliances, strategies or consultation have been involved, interpreters have always played a key role all along and this was always associated with an enormous level of responsibility. This is, for example, because of how easy it could be for a negotiated truce to break down if each and…
What are the characteristics of a good freelance translator? Do they need to have native fluency in the source and destination languages? We all know of people who grew up bilingual but if you ask them, they’ll admit that they speak one language better than the other. Still, it’s always…
In the United States, children and adults alike are pretty accustomed to their fairy tales ending with the phrase "and they all lived happily ever after," or at least a phrase very similar to that, but the Brothers Grimm fairy tales did not originally end on such happy notes. In…
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…
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…
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.…