Here at blarlo, we have a community of 4000 translators who work from over 110 countries. Many of them are feeling the blow of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Blarlo reached out to them to see if there was anything we could do, and to know how they are dealing with the situation. Below are just some of the responses we received from our translators living in the most affected areas, with many offering valuable tips for the rest of us. …
Author: Óscar Martín
If oral communication is essential in learning at an early age, it is also possible to give your university education an extra boost with the help of techniques like parallel text. Let’s see what this is all about. What parallel text is used for This metacognitive strategy consists of creating a text that is parallel to the one being studied, but always with a specific goal that will help you better understand its meaning. A parallel text: · Helps you …
If you plan to offer translation services in the future, you should know that there will be several words you won’t be able to translate. In this article, we’ll explain why, and we’ll offer some practical examples to make it easier for you to identify these words. What are untranslatable words? These are mainly words that have no equivalent in other languages due to their specificity. It can be a pun, the use of a term with a completely different …
Vernacular refers to the language of a given place. In the science of translation, it is important to know the history of the source language to make it easier for you to grasp the true meaning of the text. We’ll go over this in the next section. The History of Vernacular Languages These types of languages are always the result of the union of the different civilizations that passed through a particular region before the formation of the language proper. …
Why back translations are so useful and their use in professional translations. Back translation can be defined as the translation of a document that has already been translated back to its original language. For example, let’s remember our time as high school students in Spanish class. First, we translated a sentence into Spanish, and then we translated it back into our native language, English, to check and see if the meaning was correct. And so, the purpose of this back …