The in-house editorial team at Day Translations — linguists, translators, and localization specialists writing the pieces no single byline owns.
Editorial Team
The in-house editorial team at Day Translations — linguists, translators, and localization specialists writing the pieces no single byline owns.
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he Day Translations Editorial Team is the in-house desk behind the unsigned features on this blog: industry explainers, language guides, country and culture briefs, and the kind of evergreen reference work that needs more than one specialist on it. The team brings together certified translators, interpreters, and localization editors with decades of combined experience across more than 100 languages — the same network that powers Day Translations' work for governments, courts, hospitals, and global enterprises since 2007. Every piece published under this byline is researched, written, and reviewed by working linguists on staff, then edited against the same standards we apply to client work. When you see this name on a story, it means more than one expert stood behind the words.
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How many medical interpreting errors have you encountered? Many countries have diverse populations, thus, people speak a variety of languages in different levels of proficiency. The situation presents a big problem to healthcare providers who have to deal with patients from different ethnicities in the…
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Linguists, translators, and engineers writing on language, culture, and the craft of being understood.
As New Year’s Eve draws nearer to usher in the New Year, many people are feeling nostalgic about the year that passed. So many things have happened in the year that is ending. It’s a mix of individual, local, national and worldwide trials, political strifes,…
Today’s retail marketplace is teeming with options for people to shop, creating a retail Armageddon that was started when Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market in August 2017. When the brick and mortar supermarket chain became part of a pure player, the retail landscape began to…
The general perception of artificial intelligence in the past few years hasn’t been that positive. For one, it is viewed as a threat to job opportunities for humans. There’s also the popular movie trope of AI becoming too autonomous that it ends up controlling or…
If you’ve been dreaming of living in Switzerland, you might get the chance this time in Albinen. The municipality is located in the district of Leuk, which is a part of Valais. The canton is in the southern part of Switzerland, where the famous Matterhorn…
Europe is quickly transforming itself into a startup hub for local and international firms after trailing the tech hubs of Asia and the United States. According to Atomico, a venture firm, in 2017, Europe startups received an investment worth $19 billion. About 90% of the most innovative…
It’s been 34 years since Star Trek III: The Search for Spock was first shown, with the Klingons speaking the Klingon language in full. The Klingons are Star Trek’s alien characters featured in the sci-fi TV and film series. In a few of the films,…
November 26, Cyber Monday, is upon us. What’s with Cyber Monday that businesses should be paying attention to it? Here are some compelling facts: Cyber Monday sales figures have been rising over the years. In 2017, sales have reached $6.59 billion, the largest online sales…
The domestic market in the United States may be huge but most entrepreneurs are going after bigger markets, which is why a business owner has to think of ways to make a globally competitive company. When company owners are growth-oriented, they want to expand in…
In order to communicate, people have to use language, and the link between perception and language affects how people understand one another. Perception of language is affected by age, the cognitive ability and prior information. Throughout the years, many studies and researches were done to…
Marketing your product today takes on many different forms, with video marketing being one of the marketing strategies that is predicted to be a major trend by 2019. Video marketing is employed in almost everything, to build consumer rapport, promote brands, products and services and…
People around the world speak several languages yet they find many different ways communicating thru time. Although it is not possible for people to learn all the languages spoken around the world, the advent of communication technologies, information technology and globalization allowed the world to…
