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[25 Oct 2009 | 3 Comments | 6,347 views]
Act Global, Think local – Website Localization

With internet becoming the most popular medium used by people world over to search information regarding almost everything under the sky including various products and services, and business websites becoming an essential marketing tool, it has become mandatory for companies operating simultaneously in different non-English speaking countries to localize their websites by translating its content to those various languages and thereby giving all its target audience an equal access to the information provided in the site.
Website localization can be done through a professional translation agency where the task of analyzing …

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[20 Oct 2009 | 3 Comments | 2,923 views]
Translation v/s Interpretation

There seems to be a great deal of confusion regarding two terms: Translation and Interpretation. Whether it is sign language or a foreign language, translating and interpreting can be regarded as two sides of the same coin- both serving the same purpose with the basic difference being the medium of communication.
Translators are the ones who use the written format and it is mandatory for them to have excellent analyzing abilities and strong roots in grammar, as they are required to render documents from one language to another. However compared to …

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[29 Sep 2009 | 2 Comments | 1,003 views]
TranslationArtwork.com on your mobile

Have you seen those advertisements that flash on your mobile? Isn’t that cool.  Yes, indeed mobile marketing is the latest trend in marketing. As mobile users outnumber the number of people seeing television, reading newspapers & magazines, mobile marketing reaches out to a great number of people.
TranslationArtwork.com recently launched its publicity campaign for mobile users in Germany & United States. I’m sure you must have seen our advertisement on your Blackberry or iPhone. We believe that it’s a great form of advertisement and our campaign has been very fruitful. Our …

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[28 Sep 2009 | 3 Comments | 3,333 views]
Poetry Translation

Poetry translation is an art in itself and the trick is to not let the feeling and emotion lose its lucidity in the process. Here are certain general observations regarding the art of poetry translation:
For a translator the trick of the trade is to first be able to recognize, re-create, and reveal the work of the another artist. A famous work in its birthplace tends to get a bit lost when in a foreign land between people who speak a different tongue. The duty of the translator is not only …

translation jokes »

[18 Sep 2009 | 6 Comments | 4,160 views]
Cupids’ Language

French can be regarded as cupid’s favourite language. As a language it oozes love and romance and hence gives you an undue advantage while wooing your beloved. There is a wide variety of phrases available to you disposal to express the gamut of emotions that comes with the very term ‘love’. The extremely mushy “je t’aime” (I love you, but better), is matched by the masculine assertion “Je t’aime a la folie”- loosely translated in “I’m madly in love with you” and for the not so intense you have the …