International business means dealing with many non-English languages, in our experience ten languages in particular. The primary international business languages include, in addition to English in no special order: French German Russian Italian Chinese Japanese Spanish Portuguese Korean Arabic The vast majority of commercial translation work involves these languages, going from English into these languages, or from […]
Marketers consistently rate outbound marketing (e.g., paid advertising such as print, outdoor, and broadcast) as being overrated, according to HubSpot’s 2015 ‘State of Inbound.’ For many smaller companies (and larger corporations too), inbound marketing has become almost mainstream. Inbound marketing aims to attract customers and nurture them along the path to eventually becoming customers. Content in its […]
Per word rates for translation services often vary depending on the language. The main reason? Economics. Translation services are best practiced by native speakers in the target language. So for example in a translation project going from English to Japanese, Japanese is the target language. Native speakers of Japanese are of course most prevalently found in Japan. […]
Document translation is a term that can apply to almost any text for translation contained in a digital file. Whether a document in the traditional sense, or a body of text in an electronic format, text to be translated into or from any language is usually made available to a translator in the form of a […]
Some translation quotes are straightforward and we can prepare them within just a few minutes. Quoting other projects is more complex and takes longer. Quoting projects involving multiple languages adds complexity, as do languages that are not often translated (e.g., Swahili, Punjabi, Bengali, et. al.). Most commercial translation work occurs in 10-12 language combinations that are the […]
English-to-Spanish book translation is a service that some specialist translation companies offer. Books and other literary works vary significantly in their size in terms of word count (the standard measure for translators to determine a project’s scope). It’s not unusual for a book’s word count to range up to several hundred thousand words. Translation companies are […]
