by mitra | Oct 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
It might come as no surprise that English is the most popular spoken language in the world. In the past few decades, there’s been a trend for people to learn a foreign language with an American accent which gradually replaces British English as a dominating...
by mitra | Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
History has seen situations where people had to deal with more than one language. In translation, however, there are often two faces. Just think of the Italian pun “traduttore, tradittore” (‘translator, traitor’). Yet people still respect and recognize the skills of...
by mitra | Sep 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s like the age-old question “Which came first? The chicken or the egg?” We often tend to forget that in order to build a fluent and natural text, the translator must have deep knowledge and attention towards the way the words interact, how they sound in reference...
by mitra | Apr 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
How do you put a lipstick on a pig? And why do you need to put fuel to the fire? We asked different translators to share their favorite idioms. The results are uniquely funny! Johanna Pichler – translator from German The idiom: Tomaten auf den Augen haben. Literal...
by mitra | Dec 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Depending on the way we approach translation and the methods we use, we can divide it in several categories. Today translation is a highly-developed practice and there are plenty of perspectives and classifications, systemizing the various approaches to it. However,...
