1. Culinary Positions: Executive Chef/Chef Vietnamese name: Bếp trưởng Role: The executive chef is the person who has full authority in the kitchen in the restaurant, responsible for operating and supervising all activities of the department to ensure the quality of the dishes, food hygiene and safety and maintaining food costs. Most importantly, the chef …
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Scientific and technological advances have made an impact on many aspects of life, including the translation industry. Today, not all translators do their job the conventional way – just looking at the source document and translate into a white paper. Today, they can make use of various applications to improve translation quality and ensure timely …
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Software companies today pay a lot of attention to user experience, besides the amazing features of their products. It means their software must be user-friendly. Most of the time, a software introduced in the original language of English might not be able to capture the attention of Chinese people, since most of them prefer their …
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In recent years post-editing has become routine in translation. Translators nowadays have heard more about it and may have been asked to do it in the past. However, not all translators have acquired the necessary skills for the task. In this article I will share some post-editing issues that can be helpful for you to …
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Most companies now focus on branding In today’s world, content drives sales, marketing, user engagement and even user experience. Most companies now focus on branding, and most businesses choose to “tell stories” to promote their brands. More than half of purchasing decisions have already been made before a customer contacts a supplier. That is why …
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In professional translation, it is required that translated texts follow TEP process. In this process, Editing (E) plays a decisive role in the quality of translations. But how? And why is it so important? In this article, let me share with you what I know about this activity after working as a professional translator for …
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Integration has been witnessed in various fields including health, with medical examination and treatment being a typical example. Recently, many Vietnamese people have relied on modern healthcare facilities in the USA, Japan or Singapore, etc. hoping for a chance to be cured. And that’s when they need their medical records to be accurately translated into …
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When entrusted with translating confidential documents into target languages, translation companies usually give their commitments to reassure clients. These commitments may come in the form of an email, a written document (e.g. the NDA) or spoken words, but they all go towards ensuring that client’s confidential documents are strictly protected.
In my many years working as a translator, there have been difficulties which cost me time. I have had to read and learn new things, the things that I was never taught when I was still a student. It was seemingly my destiny to take up translation as my occupation. Although graduated as a full-time …
In Industry 4.0, freelancers emerged as an option for short, cost-effective translation projects. But with these advantages, there are also challenges that can be overcome only with the accompany of an translation agency. This can be a trade-off between translation quality and cost and many other reasons for clients to consider.
Legal parlance if it needs translation, needs the services of an expert that is highly knowledgeable in legal terms and practices. Translating legal documents needs accurate and correct translation and is one of the most difficult among all translation work.
These days many translators still retain the habit of translating directly from hard copies such as paper pages or pages from books. This will inevitably bring additional risks to the quality and integrity of translations and hinder the utilization of search aids – the most important activity in translation. In this post, I will give …
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Notarized translating process has made its presence known in education, economic and legal fields. A notarized translation may serve as a significant role for governing bodies to fully understand documents so as to review requests from individuals or enterprises. A document to be notarized, therefore, must be translated with absolute accuracy and possible quickness. This …
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What are translation instructions? In simple terms, translation instructions are requests given to translators before or during the translation process. These instructions can refer to the style, choice of terms, format or deadline… The more detailed the instructions are, the easier it is for translators to grasp what they need to do, hence helping them …
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With the widespread of contents in various languages on the Internet, the role of machine translation (MT) is a sure thing. However, bearing that in mind, many people tend to lower their respect for translation work and easily think that translation is now at ease with the support of MT. This poses a great challenge …
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With the widespread of contents in various languages on the Internet, the role of machine translation (MT) is a sure thing. However, bearing that in mind, many people tend to lower their respect for translation work and easily think that translation is now at ease with the support of MT.
Instructions play an important role in the translation process. If translators are given detailed and specific instructions soon, they can be more proactive in their work, and the time investing in editing will be reduced. For that reason, do not hesitate to specify if you have any expectation or requirement on the translation quality, though from a client’s perspective, the request may seem unnecessary.
This blog post will take a look at the typical examples of auto-antonyms (or contronyms) in English, English words that may have different meanings in different varieties of English and English words whose meanings become completely different in their plural forms that need care in English-Vietnamese translation.
Ambiguity is a common phenomenon in linguistics. When speaking, people are not so concerned about the ambiguity of language and such a problem seems often overlooked.
Anyone doing any job must possess a particular set of skills. Identifying what are essential skills in work is a decisive factor in the development of the workers themselves.
It is highly important to work professionally and strictly on translating and revising texts, not only to offer a product that contains the highest quality and is 100% equivalent to the original text, but also to avoid potential problems related to an error-ridden translation
Dash and hyphen are used with great frequency in texts, however, these two symbols are often confused with each other in both English and Vietnamese. Distinguishing between dash and hyphen Dash is a symbol used to separate parts of a sentence, while hyphen is used for words. Dash (–), with the same length as that …
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Have you ever been asked to have a back translation and reconciliation done for your forward translation and you weren’t sure what that means or why it was necessary? Back translation and reconciliation services give you additional quality and accuracy assurance for your most sensitive translation and localization projects. Both back translation and reconciliation become …
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Globalization strategy has been booming in most industries nowadays. To be successful, companies need to provide their products and services in line with countries, cultures, and even different legal systems. It is the translation, interpreting and localization services that support for this objective of those companies. In the next 10 years, the demand for translation …
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