5 signs of a professional translator

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This is a guest post from Olga Arakelyan, a professional translator.

tags: freelance translator, professional translators, Translation Industry

Getting the best business translation – a run-down of popular languages

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Every company wants the best business translation. After all, it could be the difference between sealing the deal on that huge contract and an embarrassing trip to the boardroom.

According to a new report by Bloomberg, to get the best business translation, you’ve also got the pick the right business language.

tags: Best Business Translation, Business Translation, Business Translations, Translation Industry

Welcome to Lingo24’s brand new website!

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How do you like our new online home? We’re very proud of our upgraded website and its brand new functionalities – here’s a quick tour of just a few of the new and updated tools and sections you’ll find...

tags: Lingo24, Translation Agency, Translation Company, Translation Industry, Translation Services

The 5 best practices of top translation agencies…and 5 worst

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Guest post by Marta Stelmaszak

There are plenty of translation agencies out there, you can’t deny that. But you also can’t deny the fact that it is fairly easy to tell a really good agency from a merely satisfactory one (not to mention one that you’ll never work with again). So, what makes the difference?

 

tags: best practice, translation agencies, Translation Industry

Welsh Assembly slammed for using Google Translate

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The Welsh Assembly got itself into hot water this week after admitting it used Google Translate to translate assembly proceedings.

The move has sparked outrage from cross Welsh translators, branding it ‘ridiculous’.

A recent report stated a 5000-word passage (known as a ‘cofnod’) was copied into Google Translate and was ‘quality assured’ by a member of staff as part of a pilot project.

tags: machine translation, Translation Industry, translators, Welsh to English translation, Welsh translation

The Times places Lingo24 on the Fast Track

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The Fast Track table lists the top 100 UK companies with the fastest growing sales internationally, and we’re very pleased to have placed at number 81. (Which, in fact, makes us the fastest growing translation agency in the UK!)

So what’s the secret of our speedy international growth? Well, it’s not a secret as such – our growth has been largely fuelled by export and our presence in the foreign language internet.

tags: Foreign Language Internet, International Trade, The Times' Fast Track, Translation Industry

The future’s bright for the translation industry

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Whilst certain industries have taken a battering over the past year or so, the future has never looked so good for the translation industry.

Last week saw Europe’s largest technical documentation fair take place. The Tekom Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, presented new translation technologies and methods and also featured a presentation on the future of the translation market in the official conference programme.

tags: Language Service Provders, Technical Documentation Fair, Tekom Conference, Translation Company, Translation Industry