Today, I will tell you how and why working on legal translation projects is tricky. When a text to be translated belongs to an Anglo-Saxon-based legal system (Common Law) and the target text to a Roman-based legal system (Civil Law), the translation work is highly complicated, as the bases of both systems are very different. […]
Let’s talk about ethics on translation? “An ethics of translation lies in deciding upon the right course of action within the act itself, deciding what is the right or wrong treatment of the text we are translating and knowing how to implement those decisions. It implies an acute awareness of your own role in the translation process and a […]
Have you ever noticed how some speakers of Portuguese, Spanish, or Italian seem to mix up the sounds of ‘B’ and ‘V’? This linguistic phenomenon, known as betacism, isn’t just an accent; it’s a window into the evolution of Romance languages and cultural identity. Simply put, betacism is a sound change in which the “b” […]
According to the UNESCO website, the date of May 5th was officially established in 2009 by the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) – an intergovernmental organization, an official partner of UNESCO since 2000, which brings together peoples who have the Portuguese language as one of the foundations of their specific identity. – to celebrate […]
Next 25th April, we will celebrate 48 years of the Revolution. After four decades of living under a dictatorship regime, being a country closed to the world, without freedom of speech and expression, with high rates of illiteracy, and people living in poverty, on 25th April 1974, we started a democratic regime with an incredible […]
Have you ever asked yourself what a post-editor does? Is a post-editor a translator? What is MTPE? Well, I will try to explain. Machine Translation (MT) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) are part of a broader Artificial Intelligence (AI) framework. MT is an attempt to process natural human language. However, given the complexity of language […]
Once, I told about my experience as a volunteer: I explained the need, in emergencies, to keep the focus, serenity, and, sometimes, the need to work near to exhaustion. Well, there are a few moments like that in everyday life. This one, which I will tell you about, was an actual race against time and […]
In most situations, simple translation is enough. However, there are situations in which it is mandatory to present a certified translation – if an entity requires it, you will have to do so. A certified translation is the translation of an official document that is certified as accurate and which, for that reason, can be presented to […]
Planning and organization have always been essential in delivering quality work. For that reason, I did the training course to get Google’s certification in Project Management. The course required dedication and effort, but it was exciting, and we had to think over several questions regarding decision-making. When we develop a project, we always have to […]
Kevin Hendzel, award-winning translator, linguist, author, media consultant, and translation expert, unravels this myth of the translator who is the person who speaks languages very clearly in this blog post. (…) So translators do not translate languages or words. They translate ideas. And in today’s commercial translation market, that means we translate the ideas of […]