Don’t Think – The Vicissitudes of the Life of a Conference Interpreter
I chanced upon an interesting article by Frauke Schäfer published in Die Zeit as part of my translation studies several years ago. A candid account of an interpreter’s troubles in her profession, the...
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What is Back Translation and the uses of it in Business As businesses that deal with sensitive content can certainly take an additional step in checking its translated documents. Once the translation,...
View ArticleLanguage, Accent, Dialect
What is a language? A language is an organised system of communication used by human beings. Languages can be formed on speech and gesture, sign, or writing. The structure and syntax of language is its...
View ArticleThe Increasing Impact of Technology on Translation
The long-expected technical revolution is here. Electronic translation is no longer just a free sample on the internet. It is now entering the ‘real’ economy of the translation industry and it changes...
View ArticleChallenges in the Voiceover Profession
Challenges of a New Career The career path of a voiceover artiste is fraught with challenges and hurdles. There is no guarantee for success, regardless of what area of voice narration you are into, be...
View ArticleMacrostructures and Microstructures as Study-Aids in Textual Analysis and...
The concepts of micro- and macrostructures have been relegated to an academic concept in the fields on linguistics and are perhaps the subject of some research. The application of these concepts,...
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