The founder of a Bristol based translation company was a guest speaker at last week’s EU Association of Translation Companies conference. Ruth Partington, Director at RP Translate in Bristol and a senior Association of Translation Companies council member, took to the stage…
The Association of Translation Companies (ATC) has launched a call for papers for the 2017 Language Industry Summit. The ATC Organising Committee is inviting submission for the plenary session based on five key topics: – Breakthroughs in technology designed to increase…
TTC wetranslate has enjoyed a takeaway with a difference after its subsidiary, Bedford Translations, was asked to support the hit TV show Saturday Night Takeaway, featuring household stars, Ant and Dec. The Association of Translation Companies member was contacted by ITV,…
Two leading members of the Association of Translation Companies have been invited to speak at the forthcoming EUATC conference from 20-21 April in Berlin. Isabella Moore, CBE, founder of Midlands based Comtec Translations and Ruth Partington, Director at RP Translate in Bristol and both senior…
There’s a longstanding myth that translators are solitary creatures by nature, preferring to spend their days burrowed away in their little home offices rather than joining the horde. After all, if we weren’t reclusive introverts, wouldn’t we all have opted…
Having material localised is essential for any company looking to expand into different countries. No matter the industry there will always be a need to manipulate the content to fit the target population, whether it is a product, business, movie,…
Linguists have always been intrigued by pictorial and symbolic languages. Consider the Egyptians and their hieroglyphs, the Mexicans and their Aztec language or we can even go as far back to a time when spoken language hadn’t fully evolved and…
Did you know French is the world’s third most important business language? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why. With more than 220 million French speakersworldwide (along with 70 million partial-speakers), it’s Europe’s second most widely spoken mother tongue, and is in the…
It is no secret that machine translation (MT) technologies are becoming an increasingly widely implemented feature in online messaging used by customer service departments of transnational companies, and in b2b communications. At their core, live MT systems usually operate based…
