Court reporting is a journalistic career in the law industry. Court and deposition reporters play an important role in documenting statements in court. Their main task is to provide full details about a case or court session. You can hire a court reporter if you want to have a complete account of court proceedings, trials, and lawsuits. What deposition reporters…
Often in life something happens which never happened before. It might belong to our personal life, or professional career. As a translator, I have to use different software which assists me in completing my translation projects. Software are not used to translate the documents (in my opinion software translation is rubbish), instead translators use them to maintain consistency and accuracy…
As a novice translator, a great deal of responsibility rests upon your shoulders; your work will directly reflect upon the professionalism of yourself and the agency that you work for. Additionally, the translation that you undertake might well have mission critical implications for your client and must be well executed; moreover, the standard of your work might very well determine…
Court interpreting professionals, therefore, have a responsibility in their own right to keep balance or fairness and clarity in court proceedings. They work hand in hand with the court employees to mete out justice or at least to assist the judicial system to work properly like clockwork. They are so needed in cases where a defendant or accused or even…
Arabic Internet e-commerce and on-line media is a significant, expanding market segment with great potential for localized, Arabic search engine optimization (SEO) and Arabic search engine marketing (SEM). The majority of websites aimed at Arabic markets are still in English, which means that you have less competition and an opportunity to dominate your sector if you localize your web content…
Exotic would be described as something rare, beyond our control. Now, how do we control a language we do not know? This is often a source of frustration. The suggestions here are aimed at reducing headaches. First some facts: the great majority of translation agencies do not have an «exotic» language translator in-house. When such a sporadic translation need arises,…
Creating a great portfolio must be the first step of every translator’s career. However, not many of them are aware of this miracle that we call portfolio. A portfolio can increase your clients and give you that much needed push to jumpstart your career. When you apply for a job, the client is not going to take your word for…
As it is right now, there are already a number of translation companies who benefit from learning multiple languages. So imagine what it could do for you. For example, learning Chinese-English translations could do you very well. Learning the language of two of the world’s biggest super powers not only equip you with the right tools to improving yourself, but…
When I first starting working within the translation industry and was tasked with prospecting for new clients, one of my common introductions would often be… ‘we offer high quality translations’. Often this was met with slightly blank expressions – and rightly so as not many translation service providers would lay claim to offering poor quality translations. I soon realised that…
In this article ‘Accommodation’ is considered to be a synonym for adaptation or «free» translation, which in fact means that changes are made so that the target text produced corresponds to the spirit of the source text. Therefore a text is produced which is not a translation in the traditional sense; it is rather a piece of writing that manages…
