One can say that some famous translators are the alter egos of the original authors and writers. Translation involves meticulous work and knowledge of many things, aside from the fluency in the language pair and high level of creative writing skills. While the translator is…
E-commerce, once the playground of big conglomerates from developed countries, is now the more accessible and is rapidly gaining more players, such as Latin America’s MercadoLibre, which rivals the operations of Amazon and Ebay. In fact, MercadoLibre can be labeled as the “Amazon of Latin…
British entertainment comes in many forms, and a mime festival is one of the entertainment events in the country that draws the largest crowds. London, England’s capital and largest city, hosts the annual London International Mime Festival. This year, the festival runs from January 9…
How many medical interpreting errors have you encountered? Many countries have diverse populations, thus, people speak a variety of languages in different levels of proficiency. The situation presents a big problem to healthcare providers who have to deal with patients from different ethnicities in the…
McDonald’s was born in San Bernardino, California in 1940. The international business started as a fast food restaurant by brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald. From being a restaurant the owners turned the business into a hamburger outlet before exploring the franchise business. They started using…
Colombia is a beautiful country endowed by Mother Nature with so many things, including emeralds, tropical landscape, the Andes, coffee, diverse cultures and celebrations almost as old as time, such as the Blacks and Whites Carnival. The Blacks and Whites Carnival is a colorful and…
As New Year’s Eve draws nearer to usher in the New Year, many people are feeling nostalgic about the year that passed. So many things have happened in the year that is ending. It’s a mix of individual, local, national and worldwide trials, political strifes,…
Why do we still see so many of the worst menu translations today? By itself, translation is hard work because of the requirements of the document. Menu translation, in particular, is quite difficult since the terminology and the context of menu entries are vastly different…
Today’s retail marketplace is teeming with options for people to shop, creating a retail Armageddon that was started when Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market in August 2017. When the brick and mortar supermarket chain became part of a pure player, the retail landscape began to…
Traveling is one of the items people include in their bucket list and today, it is easier to find out about destinations through digital tourism sites. Some people, however, still want to visit travel agencies and gather glossy travel brochures with amazing pictures of destinations…
Translation has been around for several millennia and it’s not going away anytime soon. It continues to evolve, promote understanding and improve communication among nations, individuals, groups and communities. When nations opened to the global community, translation became more important, with the client base getting…
In the past, workers put a priority on tasks, to ensure that work that should be done first is given all the attention until it is finished. Priority was first used in the 1400s. It’s a singular word that equates to something being the first…
