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Ron McCoy is the director of Affinity Translation since 2007. He holds an MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an undergraduate degree in education. He welcomes all inquiries both language or business related.

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The Beauty of InDesign Document Translation

August 4, 2020

There are those among us that consider the appearance of text on a printed page, professionally formatted and inviting to the eye, to be a thing of beauty. At Affinity Translation we’re in the business of language, so count us among this group. Text on a page is art, or at least it can be. […]

Employee Handbook Translation Seasonality

July 28, 2020

Requests for translation of employee handbooks come at regular intervals throughout the year. Whenever an organization creates or updates its employee handbook, which has no tendency for occurring at certain times of the year so far as we can tell, we receive inquiries about translating their handbook. Almost exclusively requests are for translating employee handbooks […]

Video Translation (text & voiceovers) into Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Telugu, Tamil, Korean, Hindi, Chinese, Arabic

July 16, 2020

Every so often there’s a translation project we do that’s especially interesting to work on. Here’s an example. Six months ago few people had even heard of COVID-19. Fast forward to today and a Google search on the term “COVID-19” produces nearly 6 million returns. A week, a month, a year from now, and that […]

Attention: Articulate Storyline Translation

July 7, 2020

Articulate Storyline has built in functions to allow course creators to translate developed Storyline courses into many different languages. Storyline text can be exported to files that professional translators can work with, utilizing specialized translation tools for high quality human translation. After completion the translated text can then be imported back into the Storyline application […]

How To Buy eLearning Translation Services

July 2, 2020

Education through various types of eLearning delivery mechanisms is an area of instruction that’s likely to become more prevalent going forward. eLearning’s efficiency, cost-savings, and effectiveness for certain types of learning and instructional applications, make the continuance of this trend very likely. Various statistics on eLearning are published in the linked eLearning Industry article. Once […]

How To Buy Online Document Translation Services

June 23, 2020

Obtaining professional document translation services online isn’t difficult but for those who’ve never done it before there are a few key things to keep in mind. If translation quality is an important factor for consumers of document translation services then control processes and procedures are important to ask about when evaluating translation companies. The quality […]