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Plenty of companies get clients who will start from the assumption that simply presenting a potential job—particularly a big one—gives them sufficient grounds to ask for a discount. They lean on their potential contractor in negotiations, ask for concessions, and very often get them. But when a client applies this same tactic to negotiating with […]

We have written before about why a lot of agencies will ask you to complete a test assignment, and why you can’t hold it against them. If you are taking a translation test, here’s some unhelpful advice from the editor who is always marking applicants’ test translations. My mom says I’m a great translator—the editor is bound […]

The Internet is teeming with guidelines regarding skills translators must possess to be considered good. As a rule, they all mention the same qualities: perfect proficiency in foreign languages and flawless mastery of the native one, ability to “sense” linguistic subtleties, integration with the language environment, extensive vocabulary, advanced computer skills, etc. Hence, the natural question: if […]

Not only do you, some of your friends, and your brother Alex consider yourselves to be translators, but so does just about anyone else who has ever studied a language. But getting a degree is just theory. When that theory comes into contact with how language is used, this can result in countless mistakes, misunderstandings, […]

When purchasing goods or ordering a service, we expect them to meet our expectations. But you don’t always get what you pay for, and that is especially the case if you can’t check what you’re buying in advance. Translation services are no exception: you can contact a translation agency with a good reputation and recommendations […]

Technological development allows us an ever-greater degree of freedom From a communications channel, the Internet has become a medium for storing and processing information, while increasing network capacity and improvements to hardware and virtual technologies have made widespread access to cloud computing possible. The cloud enables not only access to information from anywhere in the […]

This article provides step-by-step instructions for clients looking for translation services who may be outside their expertise and thus don’t know how to find a competent service provider. We outline some of the simplest steps that can be taken to minimize the likelihood of choosing an unreliable translation agency. Agencies use similar procedures when working […]

The success of any business heavily depends on the quality of the goods and services that it offers. This statement is also true for translation agencies. If you earn a reputation as a reliable supplier who doesn’t cause problems for its clients, you’ll most likely end up with a stream of orders for many years […]

For people who aren’t involved in translation, it is often unclear what distinguishes one translation agency from another. After all, they all do the same thing, i.e., translations. At times, however, they may have less in common than a dentist and a cosmetologist. No one asks a masseuse to fill a tooth or a veterinarian […]