A question some professional translators may hear sometimes is, “How many languages do you speak?” Implicit in the question can be the mistaken belief that the more languages a translator speaks, the more linguistically gifted they are, and the better their translation skills are. In reality most professional translators work in a single language combination […]
For many US companies and organizations a logical way to expand their reach is to enter new markets. In some cases new target markets speak and communicate in a language that’s something other than English. Doing business in non-English speaking markets and geographic regions implies a host of considerations. Language is high in importance on the […]
Here’s a question we recently received from a prospective new client. Our response follows. Client Question: What happens in the event that our European office says that a translation is un-usable? Would that be something you would attempt to re-translate? If re-translated, would that be our expense? Affinity Answer: If a third party deemed […]
What Informed Translation Clients Need to Know – Part #3 Should Affinity Translation hire on site translators and perform translation work only internally? Or do our clients benefit from accessing a globally distributed network of professional translators on-demand? Here are some of the advantages of working with Affinity Translation and its trusted network of skilled professional […]
An email from one of our translation clients is below, along with my response. I thought the exchange might be of value for presenting here for the benefit of other translation clients and translators. Did I make the right response? It’s the one that seemed correct to me based on experience to date. Email from […]
What Informed Translation Clients Need to Know – Part #2 If you’ve ever taken a class in economics you may recall that a commodity can be defined as a product or service differentiated mainly by its price. In other words the attributes of every unit of a commodity are essentially the same. If translation services were […]
