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Like everyone else in the northern hemisphere, especially those who experience cold winters look forward to celebrating each start of a new year. There is something symbolic in ending one year and starting a new one. Typically, in Germany, New Year c...

There is a greater need than ever before to communicate across cultures and languages and this trend is certainly not slowing down. With a growing demand for this sort of communication, all sorts of translation companies are offering translation serv...

Anyone who is lucky to be bilingual has great advantages compared to those who are not. It is an invaluable skill in today’s globalised world, allowing the chance to communicate in a different language with people who may sometimes have an entirely...

As communications globally improve, the world starts to transform into what seems like a global village. Geographic barriers can be broken down by fast jet travel, but linguistic barriers are only solved successfully by the use of translations. Those...

Bilingual or multilingual speakers in the native English language speaking world are quite a rarity, in contrast to genuine bilingualism or multilingualism in many other places. Genuine bilingualism does not mean that someone has a reasonable smatter...

It only takes a pandemic to highlight the challenges and importance of medical translation. Never before in human history have so many medical professionals and biomedical researchers been involved so much in an international attempt to slow down and...

Translators, whether they are freelancers or work as part of a team in a translation agency, are often reluctant to ask their clients questions. Yet when questions are relevant and posed carefully they can lead to a better quality translation and sav...

The Covid-19 pandemic has been compared to the last really serious worldwide pandemic that led to 50 million deaths, that of Spanish flu, in 1918. The similarities include the fact that both diseases are caused by viruses which were new to humanity. ...