Senior Writer
“Senior writer covering language, culture, and the people who carry both across borders.”
Bernadine Racoma is a senior writer at Day Translations covering language, culture, and the small everyday acts of translation that make global life work. Her features lean toward the human side of the industry — the lives of interpreters, linguists, and the communities they serve.
Subtitles on videos and films help a wider audience appreciate and enjoy foreign video productions. Subtitles help viewers understand foreign dialogue in their own language. While subtitles facilitate understanding, the work that goes behind subtitling is painstakingly long and precise. Subtitling is a form of…
These days, it’s a prerequisite for companies big and small to maintain a website. For a number of years, they have realized the importance of websites to reach out to more customers, current and potential. But if they want to compete in a global world, they…
The legal profession is getting more lucrative and competitive. If you want to set yourself apart, boost your prospects and follow a legal career, knowledge of foreign languages is necessary. If you are experienced in law and want to work in translation services, your foreign…
Technology helps our lives become better, right? Computer programs are created to automate some of the routine steps that are done manually. Translation technology is meant to make translators’ workload lighter, more efficient and faster and bring about many benefits. But is that really the case?…
Interpreting is one of the main components of language services, and there are many challenges interpreters face to promote understanding and facilitate communication. Linguistic and cultural challenges abound, whatever type of project. Despite being similar to translation, in that they both deal with transposing a source language…
Translators work on a variety of printed documents that fall under specific categories. These include general, legal, literary, business, medical and technical translations. Each category involves quite a long list of document types, ranging from simple translation of messages and notes, to wills and trusts,…
Today, medical translation is not only one of the most difficult among translations services, but also the most demanded. The medical industry operates worldwide, so it is understandable that it requires medical translation services regularly. It serves various markets, which speak different languages. Aside from…
People new to translation services often ask the question: What is a Certified Translation? A certified translation is a statement signed by a translation services company representative or the translator who carried out the translation. It attests that the final target language translation is an…
When translating a website, marketers seek the help of a Language Service Provider. LSPs then work with a team to decide on which method of translation to use for the benefit of the site’s users. Here are some website translation methods that your company can use to…
There is a very interesting language fact in the United States. While (American) English is the dominant language spoken in the country, at the federal level, the U.S. does not have an official language. Since 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau has been regularly conducting surveys…
In general, all couples who wish to get married must first get a marriage license. It is a document that says that the two parties are legally allowed to be wed. In the U.S., the rules, regulations, and the requirements when issuing a marriage license,…
There are many office assistants that only do one type of work. This is not the case with a paralegal who wears several hats during the performance of duties. As an assistant to an attorney, a paralegal’s main goal is to help his superior prepare…
