TOP 10 Misconceptions about translations shared by translator Lisa G. Siegel-Cruz. Do you have your own list of misconceptions? Do you want to add something more to this, please post in a comment and share your ideas and thoughts. This blog post has been contributed by Lisa G. Siegel-Cruz, a Spanish-English translator from Florida, Orlando.

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 …

Whenever you travel to different regions and do not know the local language completely, you know for sure that there will be some incidents of misunderstanding with the natives there. It will be purely for the reason of lack of knowledge about the local language. These potential misunderstandings may take the forms of humorous anecdotes that you can share with your friends and families when you return to your native lands. And I am sure every traveler on this planet has had such experiences.
However, the lack of knowledge of the …