When coming up against a translation related with the restaurant and hospitality sector, a series of questions always crop up. Do all the dishes need to be translated? What importance does culture have in terms of the target language? How can communication between professionals in that sector be improved? We’ll try to give you an answer to these questions in the following sections. Some sadly popular examples The most common thing to do is to use an online translator to translate, in …
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Translating a language is one of the most complicated things there is to do; however, it is quite necessary considering the great number of languages that exist in the world. In fact, there are people who specialize in translation — something that is vital for many communication tasks in sectors like business or tourism. What are the most difficult languages to translate? There are languages that are similar to each other because they stem off from a sole language, like …
Machine translation may seem very useful if you need to know the meaning of a website’s content, but is it recommended when you need to correctly translate your proposal on the Internet? What are the limitations of machine translation? Before going into what these are, you should know how this type of program works, which started out as a mere dictionary and now seems to have the ability to translate entire sentences or expressions. If you look closely, most of …
Surely, the PDF (Portable Document Format) is one of the most used in your day to day. It was developed by Adobe Systems and is one of the current standards for digital documentation. Thanks to its robustness, its compatibility with any operating system, the possibility to include multimedia elements, or digitally sign or encrypt the document, it has managed to increase its popularity over the years. But it is also a format that limits the user’s ability to modify document …
Today, with so many streaming platforms, we are used to seeing series and films with subtitles. This is a world in which, perhaps, you don’t stop to think about the challenging “hidden” task: the translation of the subtitles. Subtitle translation is a task that has a series of strategies and curiosities that we are sure you will love to learn about like, for example, what happens with vernacular languages and dialectsin the world of subtitle translation. Sit back, relax, and let …