Founder and CEO of Day Translations and a lifelong polyglot. A former hospital and legal interpreter whose entire career has been built around language, communication, and international business.
Founder & CEO
Founder and CEO of Day Translations and a lifelong polyglot. A former hospital and legal interpreter whose entire career has been built around language, communication, and international business.
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ean Hopwood is the founder and CEO of Day Translations, which he has led for nearly two decades into a global network of certified translators and interpreters that operates across 100+ cities and 500+ languages. He is a lifelong polyglot who speaks seven languages: English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German, Portuguese, and Hebrew.
His entire professional life has revolved around languages, communication, and international business. Long before he built the company, and while running it, Sean worked on the front lines of language access. He has interpreted in hospitals, interpreted for law firms, taught English to graduate students, and worked as a guidance counselor helping international students find their way into U.S. colleges.
That hands-on experience, sitting with the patients, attorneys, and students who simply needed to be understood, is the foundation of everything Day Translations does today and a big part of what sets the company apart. His writing here covers leadership, the language industry, and the future of cross-cultural communication.
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When you speak of the Chinese language, it is very common to think only of two – Mandarin and Cantonese. In essence, Cantonese is the second most spoken Chinese language. Also known as Yue, it’s the dominant language in Southeastern China. Like Mandarin, they use…
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Linguists, translators, and engineers writing on language, culture, and the craft of being understood.
Golden Week is called as such because several national holidays happen in a span of about seven days. In Japanese, it is called Ōgata Renkyū or Ōgon Shūkan. It occurs in the spring, from the end of April until the first week of May. It…
How does a passion for languages affect translation services? The American Translators Association (ATA) has 522 registered members while PROZ.com has 59,179 in its database, which consists of language services companies worldwide. It is to be assumed that this is not the total picture though….
There are still so many people who don’t understand what a translator or interpreter does. It is a sad fact that not many people know the vital role translators and interpreters play in life and society. They are important to education, arts, publishing, international trade,…
The Internet has a worldwide reach, it’s true. Yet, not everyone speaks or understands English. If you want to reach several different markets around the world, translating and localizing your website and marketing content is essential. If you’re still in doubt about how translation and localization will…
While most types of translation are difficult to do, one of the most difficult is medical translation or translation in the medical field, which is almost at par with the difficulty in translating for the legal field. It is exacting work and needs careful attention…
One of the many types of language services is legal translation, which translates texts within the realm of the law. As the field of law is dependent on culture, professional translators who specialize in legal translation are the only ones who should do the translation…
One of the primary reasons why literary translation is important is because it allows literature to be enjoyed by more people worldwide. Book translation makes readers enjoy novels, short stories, fiction, non-fiction, poems, prose and other literary works by foreign authors. Translating books is an…
EN15038 is a translation-industry specific quality standard developed and implemented in 2006 specifically for certified translation services in European countries.
Certified translation is needed whenever you apply for a visa, if your supporting documents are not written in the official language of the country you are applying for.
What is certified translation? It is necessary to understand what certified translation is, as different countries have different definitions on what constitute certified translations.
According to Professor N. Dharmarajan, book translation is not merely the act of transferring content from a source to a target language, but it is more about sharing the joy and beauty of the original content. It is about the attempt to allow the reader…
