As the school year draws to a close, we head into summer internship season. While more and more companies are offering localization internships, for some busy teams, it can be a challenge to invest in training someone who will only be around temporarily. With the right balance, internships can truly be win-win, so we asked […]
Being a professional subtitler for three yearsI have learned a lot from my mistakes and mentors. Here are a few tricks of the trade that help improve the quality of subtitles. Although these examples are in Hindi, the tips are helpful for subtitling in general. Do Not Translate A big no in the subtitling world […]
Are you attending the tech event of the year – Women of Silicon Roundabout – in London this June? If not, and you’re looking to progress your career, keep up to date with what’s happening in the industry, or simply want to hear some inspiring leaders share their thoughts and wisdom, you need to book […]
According to a study referenced in Scott Mautz’s article in Incmagazine called A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home, remote workers are more productive and find it easier to concentrate when they work from a “private office” at home. Still, a lot of biases remain around remote employees who work […]
As summer approaches, students across the country are getting busy looking for an internship. At the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey, that work starts months in advance. Helen Jung and Amy Liu are currently finishing up their studies in Translation and Localization Management (TLM) at MIIS. We asked them to tell us […]
Measuring translation quality has evolved with tried and tested metrics to evaluate linguistic accuracy and fluency. More often than not, these measurement techniques are applied to transcreation when a different approach may be more beneficial. Since creativity is at the heart of transcreation, the standard quality metrics often won’t cut it for measuring whether the […]
Happy International Women’s Day to the AWESOME women around! It’s time to embrace the women power and leaning in together! This is the year of “Balance for Better”. Excellence does not differentiate between genders rather it recognizes talent and taking it to the next level. In today’s times’ workplace gender equality can only be achieved where employees are able to get […]
SUBTITLING Subtitling is the process of translating spoken dialogue into written text on the screen. It is a type of audiovisual translation, with its own set of rules and guidelines. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the first movie to be subtitled in the year 1903. In those days subtitles were known as intertitles. But after the […]
Website localization can be very challenging in general, and localization into Russian presents its own special set of challenges, starting with the Cyrillic alphabet and ending with different preferences and expectations of Russian speakers. These challenges can be broken into 2 categories: design and content. Both of them can be overcome with a little planning… […]
In our globalized, hyper-connected world, the role of translators has certainly become crucial but also increasingly complex. As professional linguists, our task no longer consists of “simply” reproducing a source text into a target language; now more than ever, we are required to be multi-skilled to meet the challenges of global communication in a […]