Category: Translation

How to use our translation service?

Post author By Victoria Wydymanski
Post date 02/02/2023

How to get a document translated?

In today’s global economy, international business is more important than ever. For many companies, multi-lingual representation is key to success, in order to communicate with clients, customers and colleagues effectively in their mother tongue, and to provide them with accurate translations of websites and business documentation.

The Marlow Language Centre, based in Buckinghamshire near London, offers a translation service for a variety of linguistic needs, from legal document translations, certified translations, and website translations to interpreting and many more. We have an experienced team of in-house and remotely-based translators.

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Translating titles

Post author By Victoria Wydymanski
Post date 17/01/2023

The task of translating the title of a film or a book into a foreign language for overseas audiences is not always that simple. Sometimes the original words neither work nor sound well in other languages, and the title does not make any sense at all!

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‘The human touch’ – why we cannot rely on machine translation

Post author By Alasdair Hutchinson
Post date 24/05/2019

With the rise of sophisticated artificial intelligence, the prevalence of personal computers and smartphones, we have seen the birth and development of a whole host of online translation engines. Services such as ‘Google Translate’ and ‘Bing Translate’ are designed to supersede the traditional methods of translating one language to another, by use of a specially designed program. The supposed benefits of these ‘machine translation’ tools include accessibility, speed and cost effectiveness, with many of these being free to use at any time online. However, are these translation engines as useful as they initially appear? Today we will be comparing the advantages and disadvantages of these tools, and where human translators stand in the modern day.

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