Language Translation – Building the base for successful localization projects

German social games developer MegaZebra got going early in localization and is reaping the benefits.For an online game company, it’s wonderful to have fun and addictive concepts. And it’s even better to be able to market them over large portions of the…

Language Translation – Foreign languages and your brain: The Sequel

Among other brain-related benefits, learning foreign languages appears to improve your memory.Bilinguals see things differently… Bilinguals learn foreign languages more easily than monolinguals… And now, a study suggests that learning foreign lan…

Language Translation – Aging population needs medical translation services

An aging population means a greater need for medical language translation and interpretation.In this blog, we have often reported on the increasing demand for medical services in the health care sector. But just why is the need for these services incre…

Language Translation – Can machines translate emotions ?

A computer scientist is studying ways to express emotions in automated translations of Urdu.You may not know much about Urdu, but it is spoken by around 65 million people, mainly in India and Pakistan. It is quite similar to Hindi, and the two tongues …

Cross Cultural Study into Obesity

With “size zero”, “obesity epidemic” and “extreme weight loss” being phrases that are almost part of the dictionary these days, the whole world seems to be obsessing about their size and weight. People everywhere are worrying if they are too fat and trying to lose weight and fight back against obesity. We are bombarded by […]

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Guide to Selling Translations

If you are in need of a boost to your translation sales then you might want to take a look at a new guide that has come from The Common Sense Advisory entitled “How to Drive Translation Sales”.
This guide offers a manual on how translation companies can help to guide their sales teams back to […]

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Language Translation – Top 2011 European April Fools’ hoaxes

Here are a few of this year’s top April Fools’ hoaxes from the other side of the pond. With their significant time zone advance, European countries were pretty much finished with their April fooling around by the time US jokes were at pe…

Indian Translation Software Advances

The 20th International World Wide Web Conference that was held in Hyderabad, India has announced exciting new language translation software. Indian developers hope the new software will start to transform the way computer assisted translation is used in language translation throughout the world.
At present a vast amount of information on the internet is being wasted […]

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Language Translation – Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Medical Translator!

Medical school students take a humorous look at medical interpreting.Doc Opera is a variety show created by students from the Case School of Medicine. All of the performances are carried out by the medical students and deal with “the amusing sid…

Budget gives ‘Green’ Translations a Boost

For us at Kwintessential the Chancellor’s budget yesterday had some very positive news. As well as measures to get SME businesses growing and creating jobs, the headline grabber was that the government is pinning the future of the country’s growth on manufacturing and in particular green technologies.
Coincidently, the announcement came on the same day that […]

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