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Freelance Translator or a Translation Agency?
Oct 04 , 2021
Freelance Translator or a Translation Agency? by Target Language Translation Services - October 04 2021 If you intend to have a document translated, you have several options. Either have it done by a colleague who appears to be quite a linguist or outsource it. When outsourcing it you either choose a freelance translator or a translation agency. What are the differences between a freelancer and an...
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What do you know about the history of translations?
Oct 06 , 2021
What do you know about the history of translations? by Target Language Translation Services - October 06 2021 The word translation is derived from the Latin word – translatio – meaning carrying or bringing across. Therefore, in general, translation means carrying or bringing text from one language to another. The history of translation has been a topic that has long been debated by ...
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Why it’s important to save endangered languages?
Oct 08 , 2021
Why it’s important to save endangered languages? by Target Language Translation Services - October 08 2021 Every day, about 7,000 different languages are spoken by people all around the world. On average, this would put about a million speakers per language, which we know isn’t true. Mandarin Chinese has over 800 million native speakers. Hindi is spoken by 390 million people as a first language. S...
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Why is it important to translate emojis?
Oct 09 , 2021
Why is it important to translate emojis? by Target Language Translation Services - October 09 2021 17th July is World Emoji Day. The event has been celebrated since 2014. It’s now become tradition for the big tech companies to unveil new emojis on this day – Apple this year announced the addition of a more diverse range of characters representing people with disabilities, as well as new animals su...
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How to become a translator?
Oct 11 , 2021
How to become a translator? by Target Language Translation Services - October 11 2021 Translators are experts in communication and language who read, comprehend and convert written and spoken messages from one language to another. They offer translation services to tourists, businesses and expats. A career in translation is interesting and varied but there’s a lot more to it than just being able t...
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Old English Words Worth Starting Using Again
Oct 12 , 2021
Old English Words Worth Starting Using Again by Target Language Translation Services - October 12 2021 Language changes over time; words and phrases come and go. Many Old English words have been lost through the ages. Modern English is a world apart from ye olde English that dates back to 1150 CE. But there’s a difference between Shakespear’s Elizabethan English (which came centuries after Old Eng...
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Is it possible to learn a language while you sleep?
Oct 13 , 2021
Is it possible to learn a language while you sleep? by Target Language Translation Services - October 13 2021 The average human sleeps around eight hours a night for, on average, 75 years, which adds up to about two hundred and 22,000 hours in a lifetime. Luminaries from Benjamin Franklin to Jon Bon Jovi have poured scorn on the simple mammalian inactivity of sleep. Franklin famously asserted that...
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Cultural blunders: brands gone wrong
Oct 14 , 2021
Cultural blunders: brands gone wrong by Target Language Translation Services - October 14 2021 Attempts to create globally consumed brands, or regionally consumed brands have proved challenging. Changing a product to cater for local needs or tastes risks hurting your reputation and your likelihood of successful expansion. And some brand marketers seem to wrongly think that they can convince overse...
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