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A well-translated website is an impressive way to boost your presence in the international market. A high quality translation will make it easier for new and existing partner organizations and customers to access information about your company, services, and products. This article outlines three essential and integral processes—Translation, Localization, and Customization—along with some helpful tips, for how to build a multilingual website that is not only accurate to the meaning of the original text, but

Tips — Writing for translations Applying the following methods will ease translation and help to avoid the misinterpretation that often results in translation errors. Avoid random or unnecessary capital letters. Extra capital letters in English can fool the translator into assuming more words are brand names or proper nouns, changing how the text is translated. Even consider moving your corporate style toward upper case or “sentence case” for heads and subheads. Sentence case (first letter is

Translation Memory: Overview A translation memory (TM) is a bilingual database or software system that stores translated content and automatically suggests these stored translations when used with computer-assisted translation software (aka CAT tools). The entries in the database consists segments of text, such as words, sentences, and paragraphs[1][2]. For example, consider the description below this famous painting by René Magritte: Photo credit: http://museumtv.fr/portfolio/rene-magritte/ Note: This is not a pipe. It is a wonderful piece of

Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate relationships. We experience a variety of meaningful connections throughout our lives, such as family, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and romantic partners. All start with a greeting—perhaps an exchange of a handshake or a simple nod—and only a special few may one day result in exchanging those three magical words, “I love you”. Across the globe, first meetings and declarations of love look and sound a little bit differently depending

What is Machine Translation? Machine Translation (MT) is the process by which computer software is used to translate text from one language to another (e.g. French into English). There are three general types of MT, each with their own set of strengths and weaknesses, covered in further detail at the end of this article ([1]) ([2]). How Should MT Be Used? In the current state of the technology, machine translation still requires professional translators to