What is so special about translation between Japanese and English?
The Japanese translation market and other markets are as different as night and 日.
Translation
A bridge too far—how not to manage a large-scale translation project
How should a translation company approach a high-volume project? And what is the most ethical response to a client that insists that it needs an extremely high volume of material translated in an unrealistically short time?
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Advertisements reveal a lot about who we are Upping our advertising game Management guru Peter Drucker famously wrote, “a business enterprise has two—and only two—basic functions: marketing and innovation.” It’s a great line. It’s an axiom with far reaching implications. It also implies that companies can be differentiated on these two points alone. Recently at …
Translation and interpreting—what’s the difference?
A translator works on a written document, reading the content in the source language (e.g. Japanese) and producing the equivalent document in the target language (e.g. English). An interpreter acts as a verbal intermediary between two or more people whose native languages are different.