Whether you are new to needing a translator or are dissatisfied with the translation work you have had up to now, you may need to think about the preparation you should do before submitting a document to the translator. You should not expect a translator to know exactly what you want from the translation. The […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has been compared to the last really serious worldwide pandemic that led to 50 million deaths, that of Spanish flu, in 1918. The similarities include the fact that both diseases are caused by viruses which were new to humanity. Because of their novelty, there was no immunity in the human population, leading […]
The importance of translation cannot be overstated. Many people mistakenly think that translation is only important when communication occurs across international boundaries, but this is not the case. Of course, translation is important for international communication, but multilingualism is part of the make-up of many individual countries these days. Of course, the existence of more […]
Global movement of people around the world may have taken a hit because of restrictions imposed on travel due to Covid-19, but this hasn’t really affected many businesses that are attempting to expand their sphere of operation overseas. Goods are still being transported internationally. The presence of the Internet means that communication, marketing, sale of […]
Your business may now be floundering, just when you thought you were getting somewhere. The rapid spread of Covid-19 has put a lot of businesses on hold worldwide. However, this is not the time to spend too much time wondering what went wrong. The pandemic will ease at some point, hopefully, sooner rather than later. […]
Covid-19 is a global health emergency, a pandemic. Originating in China, it soon spread to Iran, Europe and North America. It was taken to Australia, South America and Africa. According to the World Health Organisation, it has spread in a few months to 212 different countries and territories. Perhaps paradoxically, it is some of the […]
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a medical emergency not seen in our lifetime. There have been other outbreaks of diseases which alarmed the world like HIV, SARS, MERS and Ebola but their spread has been a lot slower allowing the medical profession to learn about the diseases and find ways to stop the spread and/or treat the […]
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany, which is the federal agency responsible for health, has reported that the mortality rate from this rampant pandemic is a mere 2.5% throughout the country. 3,495 fatalities is a less significant figure out of the 132,000 reported cases reported at the time of writing when compared to the […]
How just a few weeks can change the world! The lightning and mostly exponential spread of the novel coronavirus, rather unromantically known as SARS-COV-2, has almost completely obliterated the worldwide tourism market and, unfortunately for translators in the tourism sector, their particular part of the industry too. The Light at the End of the Tunnel? […]
You may have thought that there will soon be no need for human translators as translation will all be done automatically. If this was even remotely true, it would mean that you could forget about becoming a professional German English translator, let alone an expert one. The reality is that the demand for professional human […]
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