When you think of translators and interpreters, you probably imagine them seated behind a desk where the dangers include carpal tunnel syndrome and papercuts. But did you know that some translators and interpreters are murdered?
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Nucleus Medical Media, a life science client of Responsive Translation, recently won a 2015 Silver Telly Award for one of their patient communication videos.
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Translation is changing. What translation customers want is changing. We’re changing, too.
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Responsive Translation is our new name for 1-800-Translate. Same team, same owners, brand new name. The Internet has killed the telephone star. Those old 800-number associations of prompt, customer-focused service are now associated with princess phones and big hair. So ‘90s. And we are now so millenial. Most of our work consists of translation and […]
Continue ReadingSome people are scratching their heads at the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature. After all, the newest winner French writer Patrick Modiano is not popular or even well known around the world, and only a fraction of his books are available in English translation.
Continue ReadingEven though I am American, I went to my fair share of Erasmus parties in the past. At one party, a young man told a joke. I forget exactly how it went, but the punchline was that Europeans spoke multiple languages but Americans spoke only one. I told him I thought that was an unfair […]
Continue ReadingWe’ve all been there. Someone tells a joke to a group and everyone laughs. Except you. If you share the same language and culture with this group, you might not think anything of it. Maybe it was just a stupid joke. Perhaps you never got around to watching that TV show the joke was about. […]
Continue Reading“All the sanctions that are related to Iran’s nuclear program should be lifted,” in exchange for Iranian cooperation against ISIS in Iraq, reported Agency France Press last week. Shock headline for sure, except for one small detail. That’s not what the Iranians said at all. They weren’t talking about the nation of Iraq, but Arak, […]
Continue ReadingSpanish undeniably forms a large part of the linguistic landscape in the United States, and it’s still growing. After English, Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the United States. However, English and Spanish certainly aren’t the only languages in the land. If we discounted English and Spanish for a moment, what other languages do […]
Continue ReadingIf someone who talks like you do told you something, and then someone who had a thick foreign accent told you the same thing, who would you be more likely to believe? Research from the University of Chicago reveals that people are more likely to believe what someone says when they can understand their speech […]
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