Travels and translations have more in common than the obvious, aesthetically pleasing, alliteration. The world has become a thoroughly accessible petri dish of activities that revolve around traveling and doing business abroad. But, be it business or pleasure, one aspect never felt more important than it does today. Tourism and translation go hand in hand,
Social media usage is one of the most popular online activities. In 2020, over 3.8 billion people are using international social media worldwide. This number is estimated to increase to over 4 billion in 2025. Multilingual social media has the potential to reach a huge audience. The internet has almost 5 billion users, with an
Think about the times when, although you had tens of options in your database, you couldn’t find one translator who suited the needs and budget for that particular project. The times when you realized you need to catch up on vendor management or when it was obvious you need an extra pair of eyes for
We don’t usually talk about ourselves but we believe that we deserve a cheeky brag from time to time. This is not about our employees, nor about our services, but rather about Romanian linguists in general. So, you’re wondering what makes us so special besides the quality, fast turnarounds and low pricing? You could argue
CSR stands for Corporate Social Responsibility and can be defined as a “self-regulating business model that helps a company be socially accountable to itself, its stakeholders, and the public”[1]. This can be interpreted in many ways and each company struggles to find a way to show that they are socially responsible. Every year the public receives reports about
On 13th November 2018, itlocal joins tekom for many interesting events, in Stuttgart, Germany. The European Association for Technical Communication – tekom Europe e.V. is the largest professional association for technical communication worldwide. It was founded in November 2013 in Wiesbaden, Germany and connects about 9,000 professionals who are active in technical communication and related fields. The main
We live in a time when technology advances slowly but steadily and most aspects of our lives are assimilated within the digital world. But what about translations? Is this industry following similar development trends? In a world of technology… Machine translation is at the forefront of our digital revolution. An outsider might expect that, by
In the translation industry, size actually matters. Most translation companies – also known as language service providers, or LSPs – are small, and for all the right reasons. Big translation companies usually subcontract their translation projects to the smaller players, also known as vendors. Primarily, the large LSPs keep in touch with the client, manage
In the translation industry, there is a consensus that translators should only work in their mother tongue, no matter how fluent they are in any other language, thus ensuring the linguistic nuances in their native language are kept. Many linguists have different qualifications, whether it is engineering, law, economic or marketing sectors etc. This allows
Translation Memory is a means to obtain consistent and cost-effective translation, with little effort. Here’s how TMs work. Using a Translation Memory does not mean using a machine translation tool, but rather re-using previous translations. The Translation Memory, or TM, represents a database of „pairs”, formed by sections of already translated and approved text, in
