Over the past few months, Yourtranslator was honored to have collaborated with Amal Alliance for the translation of their award-winning program “Colors of Kindness” into the Greek language. “Colors of Kindness” is an innovative EdTech solution that helps children develop their social and emotional competencies that was inspired by Amal Alliance’s preexisting Rainbow of Education curriculum. Designed to help cope with the effects of…
Les traducteurs (The translators): a review
Being translators ourselves, we love watching movies with translators as the main characters, as they’re not very easy to come across. We also feel that they help lend visibility to translation and translators in general, which is something that our industry desperately needs. If you haven’t watched the trailer yet, the movie is about the translation of a bestseller and it’s actually inspired by…
Official translations in Greece: everything you wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)
Following the success of our original post about official translations in Greek, we decided to translate it to reach a wider audience and help more people understand their needs. Enjoy! Greek red tape is quite similar to the Spanish one… What we mean by official translations from and into Greek: Normally, an official/public authority may require you to submit an official or certified translation…
5 simple steps for quality assurance
Quality assurance is absolutely essential when working as a professional translator. Naturally, the best method is to have your translation reviewed by another professional. However, even in this case or even when you’re working with agencies that take care of the review themselves, you should make sure that the quality of the work you deliver is as high as possible. Here are some simple…
10 things we love and hate about translation
WE 1. Learning new things One of the great things about translation is its sheer variety; one day you’ll be translating manuals of a washing machine and the next the website of a hotel on a dreamy island. Besides keeping boredom at bay, this multitude of subjects helps you learn a great many new things you would never have imagined existed. Naturally, if you…
The importance of planning your translation requests ahead of time
More often than not, translators are faced with “urgent” requests sent last-minute by stressed-out clients who need the translation “yesterday”. It sometimes happens that once they have learned the extra cost involved in an urgent translation, they reconsider the urgency of their request and agree to a more reasonable deadline. Very often, though, that’s not the case. This situation is not ideal for either…
4 useful features + 1 tip for Studio 2015 newbies
SDL Studio is unquestionably one of the most popular CAT tools in the market. Unfortunately, though, being such an extensive, all-encompassing tool, it can often intimidate users, many of whom end up using it only to edit and translate files and to save their work in translation memories. This is a waste of potential (and money not-so-well spent). This is why we’ve assembled four…
Lost in Translation: The case of Chinese
Mandarin Chinese constitutes the official and most widespread spoken dialect of the People’s Republic of China; it’s the official language of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and one of the four official languages of Singapore, while its writing system is also used by speakers of other Chinese dialects. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Chinese language is of particular interest not only…
3 reasons to invest in a high-quality translation
One of the biggest problems faced by the translation sector is customer perceptions on translation cost, which is often deemed too high. This is due to the fact that translation, both as a science and as a profession, is largely misunderstood due to the ignorance surrounding this field. However, if you are considering translating your website, advertising material or any other company documents and…
Translation: how subjective can it get?
Every profession, science and activity has its own set of rules. Some rules are broadly established and widely accepted, while others aren’t. There are also unwritten rules, corporate policies/cultures, schools of thought when it comes to science, and probably many other types of rules, as well as each individual’s personality, which play a role in the process. Let’s see what happens in the case…