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It’s that time of year again… The Christmas markets are back, Christmas songs are being played everywhere, and families are arguing over whose turn it is to do the dinner this year (if they haven’t already had it planned since January 2018!)…...

When we read a newspaper, a novel or a text from any other genre, we are sometimes faced with references that we don’t understand. Often we will gloss over these as they don’t hinder our understanding of the text, but sometimes we will go away and look up...

Email is one of the main channels of communication between you and your clients. The closing of an email is often overlooked so we decided to put together a handy list of ways to close and sign off an email for a number of different occasions. Why not keep this list...

We use colourful idioms in the English language more than we might realise – we tell white lies, remember red letter days and sometimes we get the blues. But what colourful idioms are there in other languages? We’ve put together a list of some of our...

The fact that you’re reading this page, looking for translation rates per word means, there is a high chance that you could be about start your first ever translation project, unless you’re just unhappy with your current language service provider. Here are...

…as the ancient Chinese proverb goes You wouldn’t ask your brother who enjoys a bit of Sunday DIY to refit your kitchen… You wouldn’t ask your neighbour who plays around with computers to design your website… And you wouldn’t ask...

‘You are my love, my angle, don’t treat me like potato’ – this is a rather terrible English translation found on a souvenir translated from Cantonese. A pretty extreme example of a translation fail, but nonetheless it highlights the point that...

The manager of a respected company wouldn’t hire their friend who is good at maths but has no professional qualifications to manage their financial accounts, so why should this be any different for translation and interpreting? Unfortunately, many people think...

Ein kurzer Satz, nur wenige Wörter – was könnte schiefgehen? Die Antwort lautet: Einiges!   Die folgenden Beispiele beweisen – falls ein solcher Beweis denn notwendig sein sollte! – dass es immer Risiken gibt, wenn man sich auf Google...