Website Translation… One Of The Most Elusive Translations Of All!
It’s been on your mind from time to time… “We should really offer our content in other languages!” But you never got around to organising it. It’s all too difficult, really. Where to start, right? Well, it’s not so difficult to organise as you think. For one, the source content is already there. You’ve already […]
Absolute Translations Saves The Day: Story
It was only by chance that it got discovered. A couple of months ago, a major Australian tourism and travel operator had their website translated into eight languages, including Dutch. The translations were delivered in Word and as their web developer was uploading the content, he paused when he saw the Dutch version. He knew […]
Absolute Translations Saves The Day: Feedback
Feedback by Absolute Translations’ reviewers on a translation sample of approx. 500 words Norwegian – Everything I’ve read sounds translated and some of it might as well have been translated using Google Translate. The language is Norwegian, but the syntax is English. [Norwegian examples provided] – Simple errors that should be easy to avoid, like: […]
Sub-Saharan Africa: Solving The Rubik’s Cube
Sub-Saharan Africa has gone through a remarkable decade of economic transformation. The continent is abuzz with talk of new investment, new cities, new airports and new refineries. A new, more confident and self-affirming Africa is taking shape. The new millennium saw per capita incomes in Africa rise faster than high-income countries for the first time […]
Machine Translation: Are you on board?
Machine Translation (MT) has been around for some time now. The first experiment with Machine Translation started in 1954. The IBM – Georgetown experiment involved the fully automatic translation of more than sixty Russian sentences into English. The experiment was a great success and ushered in an era of significant funding for machine translation research […]