by Alpha Omega Translations | May 4, 2016 | Business Translation
By Sarah-Claire Jordan The last thing anyone wants to deal with in an emergency situation is a language barrier. However, there isn’t a place in the world where everyone there at any given moment speaks the same language. This might be due to high immigrant...
by Alpha Omega Translations | May 4, 2016 | Business Translation
By Sarah-Claire Jordan First of all, let’s refresh our memories on what localization actually is and how it relates to translation. Localization, as the name implies, deals with everything that goes into making something relatable for the population of a certain area....
by Alpha Omega Translations | Apr 28, 2016 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan If you have ever read a blog or considered creating one of your own between 2003 and now, you have probably run across more than a few blogs published thanks to WordPress. Though other blogging tools, like LiveJournal, have been around longer,...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Apr 28, 2016 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan English is by and far the most common business and commerce language, so much so that it has come to be the lingua franca of the world, practically. Anyone who is anyone in international business has at least a basic level of English that is...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Apr 28, 2016 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan We don’t tend to think of translators as being famous or even as important as writers, but they really do make a huge contribution to whatever sector they work in. Here are five famous ones you should know about: 1. Edith Grossman Born in...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Apr 28, 2016 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan We know now a bit more about the different linguistic and ethnic groups that make up Afghanistan, but we still could benefit from knowing a bit more about how the people there live.A language may be the key to understanding the culture of the...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Apr 21, 2016 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Being a translator is so much more than just being able to take a phrase in one language and regurgitate it in another. As anyone who has tried to translate something using only Google Translate will know, literal translation and machine...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Apr 21, 2016 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan The situation in Syria, Iraq, and other Middle Eastern countries doesn’t seem to be getting better any time soon. This means the refugees who are lucky enough to find a way out of their war-torn homes are increasing increasing in number and...
