While awaiting the Artificial Intelligence that will help us, replace us and rule the world, translators had to find other tools to be more efficient. A Bit of Explanation A CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) is a software or a website that helps translators in their jobs. Easy, right? You are probably telling yourself “I’m not […]
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If comics were considered only as a genre for children or young adults in the past, their group of readers has been expanding over the last years and the genre has become something more than mere children entertainment. This is why we are going to talk to you about some fun facts in comics translation
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Just to introduce Working from everywhere, except your office is something tempting right? You could be working from home while carrying out your duties as mother or father or be working from a cafe or any other place with an Internet access. All of this is possible nowadays by signing in all kind of websites
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The example of the Japanese author Haruki Murakami. A sure sign of the international prominence and market value of an author is the shrinking of the time span between the publication of the original and the translations of their books. Many authors who gain great success at home are almost unknown abroad. At the same
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Are you planning to visit Spain for the first time? Well if it is the case, you should know that depending on the region you are going, you might hear people talking languages you have never heard before. No worries, not everyone knows that Spanish is not the only language spoken in Spain. Actually, 4
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Sometimes, we like to have a bit of fun at TRANSLIT. An idea to carry out a social experiment came after stumbling across a few tongue twisters. It seemed easy at the beginning, but turned out to be a somewhat difficult task for non-native speakers and even for Irish and American people. We asked a
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Based on the proper names’ translations in the saga Harry Potter Facing the issue of translating proper names from a language to another is not something that happens invariably. It is a rare situation that occurs only in a few occasions: for the translation of books, tales, movies, plays, etc. In other words, proper names
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There are two categories of people: the ones who read, and the ones who don’t. By reading I mean “reading literature” of course, even though I won’t denigrate the news or any other kind of practical articles or stories. As a member of the first category since always, I have been widening my reading range
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[supsystic-social-sharing id=’1′] Saint Patrick’s Day (or Paddy’s Day) is celebrated worldwide, with everyone embracing and celebrating their (imagined or real) ‘Irishness’. St. Patrick’s Day is without question the biggest celebration of a national day across the globe. In the big American cities, in Moscow’s Red Square, and even in Nigeria, people will be proclaiming themselves
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Founded in 1987, the well-known European exchange programme Erasmus is now an essential rite of passage for many students, as 3 million young people have taken part of the Erasmus programme since its creation. Most popular destinations seem to be Spain, Germany and France but more than 4000 universities and institution are offering places for
Everything you need to know before you embark on Erasmus. Read More »
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