by Julia Tuff | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Medical translation It’s easy to feel like the world of medicine has a language all of its own. All that jargon! This is precisely why it is so critical to use a specialist medical translator. Afterall, this is one area where you definitely cannot risk any...
by Julia Tuff | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Languages are vanishing around the world at an alarming rate; every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker,according to UNESCO. Between 1950 and 2010, 230 languages went extinct and, today, a third of the world’s languages are spoken by fewer than 1000...
by Julia Tuff | May 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
令和 Reiwa: what’s behind the name of Japan’s new era and what does the term really mean? The recent abdication of Japan’s emperor, Akihito, made history in more ways than one. Of note, he is the first Japanese emperor to step down in over 200 years. The accession of...
by Julia Tuff | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Laughing matter: how to translate jokes Heard the one about the translator who walked into a bar? OK, maybe not, but how you’d translate the joke into another language would depend on the punchline. Does it play on words or offer a sly nod to a cultural reference...
by Julia Tuff | Apr 10, 2019 | Translation Services, Uncategorized
What do interpreters do that translators don’t?Basically, translators write and interpreters speak. Interpreters work by listening to information being spoken in one language and then relaying the message into the language of the listener. They either do this...
