The world is starting to resemble a global village as people from all walks of life convene for a common cause… the only roadblock to effective communication being language. A priority when running a live multilingual conference is to get your messages across to as many attendees as possible. This wouldn’t be a problem if…
Your company, like so many others, may be trying to reach out to new multicultural customers in global markets to increase sales and grow your business. Of course, reaching out is one thing. Connecting is another. It may be an easy thing to overlook, but translating your company and product literature into other languages may…
Often times companies take the single most important question for granted: into which language(s) do we need to translate? Perhaps the answer is not as obvious as one may think, and it influences many aspects of each project. Some people may not realize that some languages differ in use from one country to another. For…
Did you know… The language called “Silbo Gomera” (Gomeran Whistle) spoken on one of the Canary Islands, “La Gomera”, which is located off the coast of Morocco, consists entirely of whistles. It is structured in such a way that the islanders are able to mimic the spoken language of the region – Castilian Spanish –…
When writing content that’s intended to be translated and localized into different languages now or even at some point down the road, it’s always a good idea to think translation – that is, to think in terms of how easy it will be to express the same ideas and concepts in different languages and how…
Many of our clients ask when translating or localizing content to Chinese whether they need to translate it to Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese characters. For U.S. companies doing business with the Chinese, it is important to use the correct language in their business correspondence, advertising brochures, contract documents and business cards. The Chinese written…
It’s a well-known fact to those of us who work with Portuguese on a daily basis, that the Portuguese spoken in Europe is quite different from that spoken in Brazil. For a number of years scholars from both countries tried to somehow narrow these differences by drawing elaborate orthographic treaties to unify the Portuguese language,…
Multilingual Desktop Publishing (DTP) Tips By Michael KooimanProduction Manager Following are a few things to consider before having your materials and translated produced in other languages. Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at translate@intransol.com. Graphic Elements: If the images in your materials are intended for an…
Good Morning, Vietnam! By Jason WoodCEO & Managing Director Way back in February 4, 1994, the then 19-year old American economic embargo against Vietnam was repealed. Finally, Vietnam, one of the last unexplored markets, could be discovered by many different American businesses. Among the “hot” industries at that time were dams, irrigation systems, roads, power…
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