Charging different rates according to customers can be financially attractive for a translation agency. However, this practice is surrounded by strict rules and may involve complications as regards the company’s management. […]
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She was the daughter of a cacique, the mother of a whole people, a slave and a translator: here’s the unique destiny of La Malinche, the wife and interpreter of Hernan Cortes. Focus on its decisive role as an interpreter during the conquest of Mexico by Spanish settlers. […]
Mass messages offer great flexibility to translation agencies when they have an urgent translation project. However, the drawback of these messages is that they depersonalize the relationship between agency and translators. What are the alternatives? The answers in this article. […]
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English, Spanish or even Chinese! Multinational companies often require their employees to practice their foreign languages. Before choosing an institute for your language courses, it’s essential to have some criteria to help you select. Cultures Connection gives you some tips. […]
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Brochures, manuals, graphics, leaflets, web sites … Whatever the visuals, the graphic designer will not fail to highlight translations according to your needs and wishes. But how to choose the right DTP provider? Read all our tips for a successful collaboration! […]
Legal translation is complicated and the legal translator sometimes seems to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. Wars, geopolitical tensions or the ousting of a miss, legal translation errors may have more or less serious consequences. […]
3000 years corresponds to the time that has gone past since the translation of the Treaty of Kadesh, one of the oldest peace treaties in the world which sealed the peace between the two superpowers of antiquity. A fine example of diplomatic translation… […]
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Spotlight on David, a freelance translator working with Cultures Connection: his experience of working as a freelance translator, a lonely task as it were… […]
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