Language is a complicated phenomenon. It exists all around the world but in various different forms. However, an interesting thing is that many languages are related to each other because they come from the same root. For example, there are many similarities between English and French. There are also many…
We've always known that interpreting and translating are incredibly difficult. Translators are able to balance multiple languages at the same time and come up with a solution immediately. In order for others to do this, they'd have to study the language for years and years. But even taking our high…
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…
On the surface, Turkish looks relatively simple. The majority of spellings are phonetic, with one letter per phoneme. Accents are added a number of letters in the alphabet to adjust their pronunciation, however in reality Turkish spelling is complicated by extensive agglutination and vowel harmony. The term 'agglutination' refers to…
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…
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…
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…
You want to reach out to some potential new clients across the pond. Your current brochure is already a winner. The images are vibrant, the copy is punchy. All you need to do is switch spell checker from US to British English and get it reprinted, right? Wrong. There’s a…
With sales of paper dictionaries declining, while the number of apps and online alternatives continues to rise, the future for the physical dictionary looks uncertain. In the new era of technology where almost anything we want to know can be found online, is there any future for the traditional method…