In a deal that underscores the challenges and obligations of doing business in polyglot New York State, five major chains that sell prescription drugs have agreed to provide customers with information about them in the customers’ primary languages, the office of Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Tuesday.
The agreements stem from a lengthy investigation [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Transpanish’s April 1st post focused on things that novices to the craft of English-Spanish translations should avoid. This weeks post will focus on the business side of freelance translating. Novice Spanish translators may be eager to please their first few clients, and that makes sense. But beware of being so eager to please that you [...]
Santiago, Apr 3, 2009 (EFE via COMTEX) — If not for the discovery of America, Spanish today would be just another European language ranking 27th worldwide in terms of number of speakers, just ahead of Ukrainian, according to the director of the Chilean Academy of Language.
“But in addition to the huge number of speakers (in [...]
As with any field, newbies at freelance translation will make mistakes. But being aware of possible mistakes and correcting those errors is a part of any freelance translator’s journey from novice to expert. This list of tips will focus on errors of content and the nuts and bolts of translation work, not on the freelance [...]
