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How to Find the Best English-Spanish Dictionaries
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How to Find the Best English-Spanish Dictionaries

A good dictionary is a great assistant for a translator. The ability to search and retrieve the needed translations is often crucial for the workflow, the pace, the energy, and the time spent on each text. Nowadays the variety of dictionaries of any kind is impressive. However, not all of them are equally suitable and helpful. So in order to facilitate one’s working process, one needs to choose carefully.

Carl Hill 17 May 2020
The Best Apps to Transcribe Audio to Text
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The Best Apps to Transcribe Audio to Text

Recording audio can be a convenient way to jot down some information. However, extracting this information is not that easy. It may be time-consuming to listen to a recording a few times to write down all being said. But the digital era and the development of language processing technologies have provided a solution to this problem – programs that automatically transcribe audio to text files.

Carl Hill 08 May 2020
What Is the Most Translated Website in the World?
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What Is the Most Translated Website in the World?

If to envision the most translated website in the world, the first idea that comes to mind is that this website must be some widely known social media network like Facebook, a global trade platform like Amazon, or Wikipedia. However, all of these guesses are wrong and pretty far from the right answer.

Carl Hill 08 May 2020
3 Reasons Why Language Translation is Important for Mass Media
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3 Reasons Why Language Translation is Important for Mass Media

Mass media has the responsibility of covering news from all over the world and sharing it with the entire world. Communicating big news with very large crowds is definitely no easy thing and there are plenty of factors which contribute to this happening successfully. Translation definitely is one of them.

Carl Hill 29 Jan 2019
The Guide to Make a Successful Technical Translation
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The Guide to Make a Successful Technical Translation

With the fast development of information technology, companies are getting more opportunities to trade and cooperate with overseas businesses. But a problem is that the language barrier is still a communication issue. And a technical translation is the most challenging part of it.

Carl Hill 31 Oct 2018
How to Express Your Feelings in Different Languages
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How to Express Your Feelings in Different Languages

If you want to learn how to say I love you in different languages, that’s a pretty easy task. So is learning how to say I love you back. These are common phrases in Romantic and Germanic languages, and the sentiment is common enough that it’s easy to find an interpretation of the term in other language families.

Carl Hill 03 Nov 2017
How to Say Trick or Treat in 5 Different Languages And Other Halloween Facts
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How to Say Trick or Treat in 5 Different Languages And Other Halloween Facts

In the United States Midwest, parents prepare their children to give the usual Halloween speech, ‘Trick or Treat!’. They also prepare them for a sneaky trick or treat answer. It’s tradition for many people answering the door on Halloween night to answer ‘Trick or Treat!’ with ‘Trick’. This means the child has to perform some sort of trick before getting a treat. Kids may sing Halloween songs, tell a joke, even play a simple magic trick.

Carl Hill 27 Oct 2017
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