International business travel – it can be an opportunity to see a new locale and expand your horizons, yet the list to prepare is not quite the same as going from California to New York. International travel has a different set of challenges – some…
Studying Versus Learning: How We Acquire Languages If you’ve ever struggled to learn a foreign language, you’re not alone. A survey found that less than one percent of students who study language in school achieve fluency. So, why do so many people fail? To get…
Transcreation is a compound word that combines translation and creation. There are situations where translation or localization does not suffice, particularly when they involve marketing and advertising. Several terms describe transcreation, including cultural adaptation, internationalization, marketing translation, free-style translation, international copy adaptation, cross-market copywriting and…
The German and English languages are West Germanic, a branch of the Indo-European family of languages. While they are from the same branch, there are still differences between them. However, there are several similarities as well. According to Ethnologue, the German language has 60% lexical similarity…
Selecting the best interpreting company is not a simple and straightforward process. You can’t just fire a Google search and choose one from the top results. It’s a critical process that requires meticulous vetting and adequate knowledge in how interpreting works. If you are thinking…
Some languages have a few things in common, but the differences between Arabic and English are quite distinct. Due to the evolution of each language, even those from the same language family or branch may have some differences. Therefore, it’s no surprise that English and…
Relay interpreting or indirect interpreting is one of the many forms of interpreting services. Its seamless execution disguises its use particularly in large conferences. When relay interpreting it used, an interpreter listens to the speaker and translates the message into a language known by the…
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A variety of tasks is involved in legal interpreting work and all of them are complex. A court interpreter for example has several tasks to perform to maintain cross-cultural and cross-linguistic equivalence. It is the job of a legal or court interpreter as a representative…
English and Russian are parts of the huge Indo-European language family. However, the two languages have distinct differences because they belong to different branches. English is from the Germanic branch while Russian is from the Slavonic branch. Therefore, Russian is more related to Serbo-Croatian, Czech…
By definition, an ad hoc interpreter is a person who is not trained but is called on to interpret. The person could be a family member, a bilingual staff requested to interpret, or someone in the hospital waiting room declaring that he or she is…
The Spanish and English languages come from the same language family, the Indo-European family. But the two are from different subgroups. English belongs to the Germanic branch while Spanish is from the Italic branch. Thus, if you’re into language learning, you will notice the differences…
