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The Royal Jam Sandwich – Today Translations Free Photo Competition
We are delighted to announce that in honour of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, we are launching a jam sandwich making competition with fantastic prizes – and it’s free to enter! It was recently revealed...
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Vote For Your Favourite Jam Sandwich!
Today Translations received a truly fantastic response to our Diamond Jubilee Jam Sandwich Competition. People from around the world sent in their jam sandwich pictures and now its time to pick your...
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Football chants translated in Polish
A galvanized crowd roars in celebration, screams in defeat, and yells when the match is uneventful. Even before the referee blows the starting whistle, the crowd can often be heard singing football...
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Korean translation glitch in US election voter guide
As the US general election enters its final few days, clarity and accuracy in official communication and documentation is of vital importance, especially for any early voters. Following recent...
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European Parliament Cuts Translation Service Budget
The European Parliament (EP) announced this week that it is to reduce its budget for translation services. It hope s the cuts will save up to €8.6 million per year. From December 10, 2012, the EP will...
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Is Arabic Language Fighting a Losing Battle With Latin Slang and Western...
What would happen if one of the official languages of the UN was no longer used because of the influence of western culture, economics, or Latin slang? If one of the most spreading languages in the...
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Website Localisation: Your Most Powerful Tool in Trade Export
This article is based on a report for the UK Trade and Investment, entitled “An evaluation of the UKTI White Label Export Guide,” written by Jurga Zilinskiene, managing director of Today Translation...
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The Onion’s Humour Gets Lost in Translation
Translation tip: Don’t always take things at face value. That was the harsh lesson learnt by China’s Communist Party newspaper, ‘The People’s Daily,’ after it reprinted a satirical and sarcastic...
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Italian Government to Launch Italian Language Institute in Abu Dhabi
The Italian government announced this month that it is to launch a new language institute in Abu Dhabi, its first such institute in the Gulf region. Dr Alessandra Priante, the cultural attaché to the...
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If you fall for a scam, there’s more than one way to recover your losses
I’ve fallen for scams twice in my life and at the time, my sense of anger was only matched by my feeling of stupidity. I’m not the only person to feel this way and as my colleague David Martin...
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What Makes Latin so Ideal for Twitter?
Following the excitement in the news last week after Pope Benedict XVI tweeted from his new Latin Twitter account for the first time, the Secretary of the Pontifical Academy, Father Roberto Spataro,...
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YouTube Offering Paid Translation of Videos
Following Google’s recent release of solutions that allow uploaders to easily translate closed captions for their videos, the search giant last week announced its partnership with two translation...
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Linguists in Battle – A Post-war Dilemma
From the translator sat at their computer in the early hours, to the interpreter tucked into a booth at a conference, a linguist’s role largely takes place behind the scenes and unfortunately often...
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What should Jurga ask Sir Richard Branson?
We are delighted to announce that Jurga Zilinskiene, managing director of Today Translations, will be speaking at Forum One in Lithuania, one of Eastern Europe’s flagship business events. The forum’s...
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Afghan linguists can now continue to help Britain
At Today Translations, we are delighted to hear that approximately 600 local Afghan interpreters who have risked their lives and worked alongside British troops during the war will be supported by the...
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