Subtitling and Audiovisual Translation
It happens in all markets. A few years ago, adults took up painting, re-living their childhood with the mandala trend. As a result, coloured pencil companies faced a skyrocketing increase - read more
Mother language: a day to celebrate our origins
On the 21st of February, we celebrate International Mother Language Day. This initiative, approved by UNESCO, aims to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and to encourage tolerance and respect. It - read more
Computer-Assisted and Automatic Translation
Who would have imagined, only 20 years ago, that computers would come to play such an important part in our daily lives? Today, it would be impossible for many of - read more
Technical translation: something else than just translating
Technical translation focuses on translating specialized texts that belong to a very specific scientific area. In our daily lives, we come across examples of technical translation in user guides of - read more
Advertising campaigns ruined due to a bad translation
When you work as a translator, one of the best guilty pleasures is to come across an inaccurate translation on TV, the web or in advertising campaigns. In the latter, - read more
Englishpanish, the first translation company to have offices in both the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America
The Galician company Englishpanish has announced the opening of a branch office in Rio de Janeiro, in the heart of Copacabana, becoming the first translation agency in the Iberian Peninsula - read more
At Home or Abroad
For translators who principally work from one foreign language – with which they are very familiar – into their mother tongue – with which they are even more familiar – - read more
Four eyes see more than two
Since we can all agree that nobody is perfect, nobody can do a perfect job all of the time. Therefore, for translators, the support of a reviewer who can guarantee - read more
The Essentials of Legal Translation
Translation poses an insurmountable problem. When replicating a text, a translator can only aspire to move as close as is feasible to the author’s original intention and style; the result - read more
But isn’t Google Translate enough?
In my day-to-day life, when introducing myself to people as a professional translator, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is What’s the point if we have Google - read more