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Results Of Our Satisfaction Survey

2012-02-24T17:59:00.002-03:00

The Results are in!

Ocean Translations Satisfaction Survey Results 2012

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Information on Lexicograffiti

2012-02-24T14:30:00.002-03:00

The Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament in Luxembourg, in an endeavour to raise awareness of the importance of terminology in the ever evolving translation industry has recently organised the 4th in a series of seminars about terminology, called Lexicograffiti.
More information can found about this seminar that dealt with lexicography and e-lexicography as well as the relevant material (presentations and conclusions) on their website.

The IATE widget allows viewers to get direct access to the public version of the EU terminology database IATE: You can upload a widget to your own blog by clicking here: http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQueryLoad.do;jsessionid=9ea7991930d74b7a14f3566f4b2e92a791ba69ab0213.e38KbN4Mc34Nay0TahqLahiLb3v0?method=load

February 27th 2012

2012-02-23T16:28:00.003-03:00

Due to a National Holiday our office will be closed on Monday, February 27^th, 2012. As usual, all assignments received on that day are welcome and will be handled first thing on Tuesday morning.

Arrangements will be made to have all the deliverables due on Monday scheduled accordingly.

LA RANM trabaja en un diccionario panhispánico de términos médicos

2012-02-08T12:37:00.000-03:00

Seis meses después de presentar su Diccionario de Términos Médicos, la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina (RANM) ya trabaja en una segunda edición que tiene además vocación de ser panhispánica.

El presidente de la institución, el profesor Manuel Díaz-Rubio, ha asegurado que el proyecto será uno de los contenidos protagonistas de la reunión de Academias de Medicina de Latinoamérica que, organizada por la RANM, que tendrá lugar el próximo mes de septiembre. El anuncio se produjo durante el foro "El lenguaje médico en español: de la anarquía a la normalización", que contó con la
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Premio MEDES a la Mejor Iniciativa al Diccionario de términos médicos de la RANM

2012-02-08T12:23:00.001-03:00

El Diccionario de términos médicos ha recibido por parte de la Fundación Lilly el Premio MEDES a la Mejor INICIATIVA que fomente el uso del idioma español en la divulgación del conocimiento médico. El galardón fue entregado en el curso de las Jornadas Medes “web 2.0 y Medicina en Español” que se celebraron el 26 de Octubre en San Lorenzo del Escorial. El Premio lo recogió en nombre de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, su presidente D. Manuel Díaz-Rubio Garcia.

Publicado en la web de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicinal

New telephone number!

2012-01-31T17:06:00.000-03:00

Please note that Ocean Translations recently changed its telephone number.

The new telephone number is +54 341 527 0513.

All the PMs have also changed their number so make sure to get in touch with them to found out their new number!

Encuesta de Traductores

2012-01-30T16:35:00.000-03:00

Queridos Traductores, los invitamos a completar este corto cuestionario sobre capacitación presencial y en linea con Ocean Translations.

Haga clic aquí para completar la encuesta.

Rosario se postula a los Panamericanos 2019

2012-01-30T15:02:00.001-03:00

Rosario se postula a los Panamericanos 2019.

Los panamericanos son el evento multideportivo más importante del continente; se realizan cada cuatro años y reúnen a los deportistas de todos los países de América. Rosario, una ciudad con una ubicación geográfica estratégica y conectividad privilegiada, que apostó al cambio y lo sostuvo, con alta calidad de vida, hospitalidad, con un magnífico presente y un futuro planificado entre todos los sectores y en consolidación. Hoy, la ciudad cuna de grandes eventos deportivos se prepara para su mayor desafío deportivo: Ser la ciudad sede de los Juegos Panamericanos 2019.

Más información en www.rosario2019.com

Wordfast Video Training Sessions

2012-01-20T13:06:00.003-03:00

One of our translators just came across a great resource for Wordfast users, it is the video learning center on the Wordfast website.

It is a serie of 23 videos that will teach you how to install Wordfast, enable spell check, understand segmentation or use Wordfast's quality control features, to name few of the sessions.

It is great place to head if you are new to Wordfast and want to know more about this CAT tool or just need a refresher on some of its functionality.

Here is the link to the Wordfast Learning Center: http://www.wordfast.com/support_learning.html

Colón y la hamaca

2012-01-20T10:21:00.000-03:00

Nota publicada en el Blog de La Nación por Daniel Balmaceda - 12/10/2011

La flota de española que comandó Colón tuvo su primer contacto en América con los taínos. Esta gente conformaba una simple comunidad de las Antillas que venía siendo hostigada por los bravos caribes. Por ser la primera referencia en el continente, la cultura taína aportó muchos vocablos al español. Por ejemplo, al dios de la destrucción y la tempestad lo llamaba Uragán y los navegantes encontraron un término para definir a las tormentas más espantosas: huracán. Otra palabra taína es macana: se trataba de una arma que utilizaban los caribes, sus crueles vecinos, hecha con una gruesa vara de palma y que trajo algo más que un dolor de cabeza a varios.

Además heredamos de la cultura taína las siguientes palabras: bohío (una cabaña hecha con ramas), cacique (el que tiene vasallos en la tribu), carey (la tortuga y su córnea), caníbal (se llamó caríbal -por Caribe- al salvaje antropófago de las Antillas, luego se transformó en caníbal), canoa, caoba, ceibo, guayaba y guacamayo. También Haití, iguana, jagüel, Jamaica, maíz, maní, papagayo, papaya, ají, guasa (falta de gracia), piragua, sabana, tiburón y yuca son voces provenientes de los nativos que cruzaron las primeras palabras con los exploradores enviados por la corona española.

Pero el término que recibió la mayor bienvenida por parte de los navegantes fue, sin duda, hamaca. Porque para ellos significaba mucho más que una palabra nueva. Se trataba de uno de los grandes hallazgos realizados en aquel primer encuentro. Tengamos en cuenta que durante las travesías en alta mar, los marinos dormían en el piso o sobre un mueble, si es que no lo hacían tirados en un rincón de la cubierta (como explicamos en el post anterior).

El descubrimiento de la hamaca modificó para siempre la condiciones de vida durante la navegación porque a partir de ese momento, los marineros dormían suspendidos en el aire, seguramente maravillados al ver cómo un invento sencillo les resolvía un enorme problema.

Tomado de Historia de las Palabras, Editorial Sudamericana.

http://blogs.lanacion.com.ar/historia-argentina/costumbres/colon-y-la-hamaca

Ocean Translations se suma a un cambio importante en el servicio global de distribución de comunicados de prensa

2012-01-19T09:00:00.000-03:00

Ocean Translations se suma a un cambioimportante en el servicio global de distribución de comunicados de prensa

Elservicio global de distribución de comunicados de prensa Kontax se lanza en160 países y en más de 60 idiomas

En laeconomía global de hoy, la publicación de comunicados de prensa para el públicointernacional es una tarea decisiva, aunque difícil, para los comunicadorescorporativos. Además del costo elevado, con frecuencia, los servicios profesionalesde distribución de comunicados de prensa son monolingües o están disponibles enmuy pocos idiomas y no garantizan la calidad de la traducción.

Kontax (www.kontax.com) es un nuevo servicio de comunicados deprensa que se especializa en la distribución de información y noticias endiversos idiomas; es simple de usar y muy eficaz para todos los países delmundo.

Disponible en másde 160 países y en más de 60 idiomas, Kontax permite que lasempresas y las organizaciones de cada país publiquen gratis una cantidad ilimitadade comunicados de prensa multimedia en el idioma de origen y que obtengantraducciones profesionales en otroidioma.

Los usuarios pueden comunicarse directamente con lasagencias de traducción asociadas con Kontax en cada país. La mayoría de estasempresas tiene la certificaciónISO 9001 o una certificación equivalente y todas cumplen con losprocedimientos de garantía de calidad de la norma EN 15038; de estamanera, se asegura la optimización del costo y de la calidad de los comunicadosde prensa traducidos.

Losgerentes de cada cuenta de Kontax son responsables de gestionar de principio afin las traducciones de los comunicados de prensa, que incluyen verificación cruzada, corrección de textos,publicación, distribución, actualización y comentarios en tiempo real sobreel impacto en los medios, lo que permite a cada cliente enfocarse connaturalidad en cualquier objetivo internacional, en cualquier momento y encualquier idioma.

Según Betty Galiano, socia gerente de Ocean Translationsy socia de Kontax en Argentina, Uruguay y Honduras: “Kontax representa un cambio importante en el modelo de negocios paralos comunicados de prensa; en lugarde pagar tarifas elevadas por un servicio limitado de alcance local, ahora losclientes pueden invertir en un servicio global a un precio competitivo, convalor agregado genuino”.

Además,Kontax incluye una gama completa de serviciosgratuitos para periodistas y agencias de noticias:

-Administración de varias cuentas declientes en línea

-Envío por correo electrónico de alertasmultilingües automáticas por palabra clave, ciudad, país, categoría eidioma

-Informes en tiempo real sobre lasestadísticas de los lectores por país y por idioma

-Sistema multilingüe de archivo y búsqueda, etc.

Distribuidoa los periodistas y a los medios sociales del mundo, y optimizado para losmotores de búsqueda de cada país, el servicio Kontax hace posible que losusuarios puedan promocionar sus productos, vender sus servicios, escoger a sussocios y controlar sus mercados en el plano mundial.

Paraobtener más información sobre Kontax, visite www.kontax.com.

Contacto:

SabinePanneau

+54341 568 1230

sabine.panneau@oceantranslations.com

Ocean Translations gestiona las traducciones para Kontax enArgentina, Uruguay y Honduras

www.oceantranslations.com

Versiones de idiomas de Kontax actualmente disponibles:

afrikáans, albanés, árabe, armenio, azerí,euskera, bielorruso, bengalí, brasileño, búlgaro, catalán, chino(simplificado), chino (tradicional), croata, checo, danés, holandés, inglés,estonio, finlandés, flamenco, francés, gallego, alemán, griego, hausa, hebreo, hindú, húngaro, islandés, indonesio,italiano, japonés, kazako, kirguís, coreano, curdo,letón, lituano, malayo, moldavo, nepalés, noruego, polaco, portugués, rumano,ruso, serbio, cingalés, eslovaco, esloveno, español, suajili, sueco, tamil,tailandés, turco, uzbeko, vietnamita, galés, yoruba y zulú.

Global Press Release Distribution Service, Kontax, Launches in 160 Countries and 60+ Languages

2012-01-18T21:40:00.004-03:00

Ocean Translations is pleased to announce the launch of Kontax (www.kontax.com), a global press release service with no equivalent anywhere in the world.

We are delighted to be partnering with Kontax as their exclusive Kontax Translation Partner for Argentina, Uruguay and Honduras.

In today's global economy, issuing pressreleases for international audiences is a decisive but difficult task forcorporate communicators: in addition to cost, professional press releasedistribution services are often monolingual or available in a very limitedrange of languages, with no guarantee of translation quality.

Kontax (www.kontax.com)is a new pressrelease service specializing in the distribution of multilingual news andinformation that is simple to use and highly effective, anywhere in the world.

Available in more than 160 countriesand over 60 languages, Kontax allows companies and organizations inevery country to publish – free of charge – an unlimited numberof multimedia press releases in the language of their choice, and to obtainprofessional translations of their press releases in any other language.

Users have direct contact with Kontax partnertranslation companies – most of which have ISO 9001 or equivalentcertification, and all of which apply EN 15038 quality assurance procedures– appointed in each country to ensure translated press releases are optimizedfor cost and quality.

Translations of press releases – including cross-checking,proof-reading, publication, distribution, updating and real-time feedback onmedia impact – are handled from end to end by the Kontax manager for eachcustomer, enabling them to effortlessly address any international target, anytime, in any language.

According to Betty Galiano, CEO of OceanTranslations, the Kontax Translation Manager for Argentina, Uruguay andHonduras , “Kontax represents a major change in the business model for pressreleases: instead of paying high prices for a limited service of local scope,customers can now invest in a global service at a competitive price withgenuine added value”.

Kontax also includes a complete range of freeservices for journalists and news agencies:
- Online management of multiple customer accounts,
- Automatic multilingual e-mail alerts by keyword, city, country,category and language
- Real-time feedback on reader statistics by country and language,
- Multilingual archiving and search system…

Distributed to journalists and social mediaall around the world, optimized for search engines in every country, Kontaxmeans users can promote their products, sell their services, pick theirpartners, and monitor their markets worldwide.

For more information about Kontax, pleasevisit www.kontax.com.

Kontax Media contacts in Argentina, Uruguay and Honduras:

Sabine Panneau

+54341 568 1230
sabine.panneau@oceantranslations.com
Ocean Translations has been appointed the exclusive Kontax Translation Manager for Argentina, Uruguay and Honduras

www.oceantranslations.com

Diccionario de siglas médicas

2012-01-18T15:30:00.000-03:00

El diccionario de siglas médicas es una herramienta abierta y de uso gratuito que ofrece la SEDOM.
Las dificultades del documentalista médico al tener que interpretar un texto se producen por el desconocimiento de la terminología de las diferentes especialidades y por el uso de las siglas y otras abreviaciones utilizadas en la documentación.

El Diccionario cuenta con 3612 siglas indexadas. - http://sedom.es/diccionario/
En 2003 se publicó la primera edición de este Diccionario de siglas médicas. Ante su buena acogida entre los codificadores españoles, la SEDOM ha decidido actualizarlo y ofrecerlo en formato electrónico a toda la comunidad científica.
Los autores son Javier Yetano Laguna y Vicent Alberola Cuñat.

Asamblea de la Asociación Internacional de Intérpretes de Conferencias (AIIC)

2012-01-17T16:30:00.003-03:00

El pasado día 11 se celebró en Buenos Aires la Asamblea de la Asociación Internacional de Intérpretes de Conferencias (AIIC). Betty Galiano, representando a Tremédica en América del Sur, nos conta como se paso el evento.

"La Asamblea se llevó a cabo en el Palais Rouge en Buenos Aires, un lugar muy adecuado para la ocasión. El primer orador fue el Presidente de la AIIC, Benoît Kremer, quien felicitó a los organizadores locales, a los miembros de AIIC América del Sur y a los colaboradores (son los voluntarios vestidos de verde cuyas remeras portaban los logos de AIIC y de ADICA, la Asociación de Intérpretes de Conferencias de Argentina), por la organización y la extraordinaria convocatoria. En la foto se aprecia la concurrencia de intérpretes de todo el mundo, más de 200. Luego disertó Victoria (Vicky) Massa, responsable del éxito de esta reunión, miembro del Comité de Relaciones Públicas de AIIC para América del Sur.

Finalmente, nos deleitamos con la presentación sobresaliente del Dr. Pedro Luis Barcia, Presidente de la Academia Argentina de Letras. Durante una hora nos mantuvo atentos y divertidos, habló de los regionalismos, de la globalización, de Latinoamérica, Hispanoamérica, Iberoamérica, del español neutro, del español internacional, del proceso de la neutralización, muchas veces su locución estuvo acompañada de matices irónicos que despertó la carcajada de los asistentes. Recomendó varios diccionarios en español y terminó con una idea que nos emocionó a todos los presentes:… “los traductores y los intérpretes son constructores de puentes, verdaderos pontoneros lingüísticos y culturales, arquitectos de la comunicación”…

“En realidad los intérpretes y los traductores son como los puentes, todos los transitan pero nadie repara en ellos”. Agradeció a los intérpretes por su ardua tarea de “interpretarlo” y se bajó del estrado.
El broche de la Asamblea fue una pareja de bailarines profesionales de tango, MARAVILLOSOS. Luego, nos invitaron a saborear vinos argentinos y bocaditos exquisitos y, de paso, a socializar.
Fue un placer representar a Tremédica en esta ocasión."

Betty Galiano - 12/01/2012

European Migration Network's Glossary of terms

2012-01-17T15:40:00.001-03:00

The purpose of the European Migration Network (EMN)'s Glossary of terms relating to Asylum and Migration terms is inter alia to improve comparability between EU Member States through the use and common understanding of the terms and definitions contained therein. The glossary shall also be used to develop further the EMN Thesaurus, the purpose of which is to permit the structured searching of documents within the EMN's Information Exchange System.

Terms are arranged in alphabetical order. For each term, the translation into other Member State languages is given, along with the agreed definition plus the source of the definition. A hyperlink to the original source document from which the definition was obtained is also given in many cases.

The Introductory text (EN - DE - FR - IT - ES - PT - SK) to the Glossary
publication provides more information on the development and approach taken
by the EMN.

http://emn.intrasoft-intl.com/Glossary/index.do

Article on Cognitive interviewing

2012-01-09T11:58:00.000-03:00

Cross-Cultural Cognitive Interviewing: Seeking Comparability and Enhancing Understanding

Field Methods, November 2011; vol. 23, 4: pp. 331-341., first published on October 9, 2011

By Gordon B. Willis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA and Kristen Miller, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, USA

Abstract

Cognitive interviewing (CI) has emerged as a key qualitative method for the pretesting and evaluation of self-report survey questionnaires. This article defines CI, describes its key features, and outlines the data analysis techniques that are commonly used.

The authors then consider recent extensions of cognitive testing to the cross-cultural survey research realm, where the major practical objectives are: (1) to facilitate inclusion of a range of cultural and linguistic groups and (2) for purposes of comparative analysis, to produce survey questionnaire items that exhibit comparability of measurement, across groups.

Challenges presented by this extension to the cross-cultural and multilingual areas are discussed. Finally, the authors introduce the articles contained within the current special issue of Field Methods (2011), which endeavor to apply cognitive testing in specific cross-cultural survey projects, and to both identify and suggest solutions to the unique problems that face questionnaire designers and researchers more generally, in the practice of survey pretesting and evaluation methods as these endeavor to cover the sociocultural spectrum.

Article source: http://fmx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/4/331?rss=1

¿Conocen a RESH?

2012-01-03T17:58:00.000-03:00

RESH (Revistas Españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) es un sistema de información que integra indicadores de calidad para las revistas científicas españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.
RESH está dirigido fundamentalmente a editores de revistas, investigadores, traductores, bibliotecarios y evaluadores de la actividad científica en estas áreas.

Sección - LINGÜÍSTICA GENERAL Y APLICADA

Lista de 50 revistas españolas de ciencias sociales y humanidades de interés para traductores.

Happy New Year! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

2012-01-01T01:00:00.000-03:00

Happy 2012 from all of us at Ocean Translations!
Proud to be your World Partner for all your English, Spanish and Portuguese translations, transcriptions, interpretation, multilingual DTP and subtitling.

Looking forward to more interactions with you online and offline!
Have a great 2012!

lenguaje administrativo

2011-12-26T17:40:00.000-03:00

Hoy les presentamos el blog de Javier Badía.

Lenguaje Administrativo -

Contra el lenguaje oscuro, contra el lenguaje recargado y espeso. Por un lenguaje claro.

http://lenguajeadministrativo.wordpress.com/

Aquí encontrarán enlazados manuales de estilo de algunas universidades (bibliografía), el Manual de Lenguaje Claro de México o el de Cómo escribir con claridad de la Comisión Europea (lenguaje claro) y las recomendaciones de la Comisión de modernización del lenguaje jurídico (modernización del lenguaje jurídico). También documentación legislativa como las Directrices para homogeneizar el lenguaje de los textos legales, o las denominaciones oficiales para algunas provincias bilingües, o normativa sobre los tratamientos oficiales, o sobre lenguaje no sexista, o sobre el tratamiento de personas con discapacidad...

Merry Christmas! - ¡Feliz Navidad!

2011-12-23T13:23:00.000-03:00

Thank you for yourcontinued support throughout the year and we look forward to working with youin 2012.

From all of us atOcean Translations

Medical Assistance Programs Dictionary

2011-12-16T14:35:00.000-03:00

We've just come across an interesting table for anyone dealing with US Departments of Welfare or Medical Assistance Programs. If you are doing translations of their documents, you may find this table of definitions/descriptions of acronyms, words, and terms very useful.

Here is the link:

Medical Assistance Programs Dictionary

Online Visual Dictionaries for Translators and Interpreters

2011-12-14T09:30:00.000-03:00

While reading the excellent blog - Laboratorio del lenguaje by Fernando A. Navarro y José Ramón Zárate I learned about a couple of great resources for translators and Interpreters.

There are many occasions during which the use of visual dictionary would save time or increase accuracy of the translation and with today's technology, online visual dictionaries bring a new point of view and are accessible anywhere anytime.Fernando A. Navarro in his post "diccionarios visuales" mentioned a couple of online visual dictionaries such as the Merriam-Webster visual dictionary online and InfoVisual.

The Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary explores 15 major themes and give access to more than 6,000 images wich allows you to see words like never before.

The entry below could be a good example of a resource for translator or interpreter specializing in Dentistry translation.

A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images.

InfoVisual is a trilingual visual dictionary developed by Bernard Dery and is divided into 6 themes and contains over 500 images. The great thing about this dictionary is the translation into Spanish and French of all the terms present on the image by just a click on the language buttons.

The image below of an automobile spark plug is a great resource for anyone working on automotive translations.

Human Rights Terminology

2011-12-13T15:40:00.003-03:00

On the occasion of the Sakharov Prize award on 14th December 2011, the Terminology Coordination Unit of DG TRAD (European Parliament) has prepared an indicative collection of terms belonging to the Human Rights domain for which the European Parliament has a leading role in IATE (the EU interinstitutional terminology database). This booklet serves as an example of what terms are included in IATE and how they are presented in IATE, each term having equivalents in all 23 official languages.

If you wish to find out more about their unit, they invite you to visit their external webpage: http://termcoord.wordpress.com/, where among others you can access their recently published Human Rights Booklet. If you are interested in printed copies, please do not hesitate to contact them as they can deliver any printed booklets by post.

Contact

DG TRAD – Terminology Coordination

SCH 06A010
European Parliament

L-2929 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

email: dgtrad.termcoord(at)europarl.europa.eu

Ocean Translations is hiring!

2011-12-06T16:14:00.001-03:00

OceanTranslations is a trusted language translation partner for some of the world’stop NGOs, manufacturing, commercial and pharmaceuticals companies. We arerenowned as Argentina's premier translation and localization service providerfor enterprise-level translation and localization services to and from English,Spanish and Portuguese. With our 15 years of experience, we have gathered thebest skilled professionals in the sector and have acquired an excellentreputation and an admirable track record of client’s satisfaction.

We are looking for a full time translation Project Manager to join our team in our offices in Rosario, Argentina.

Job Description

TranslationProject Managers are responsible for liaising with clients and linguists toensure translation projects are realized on time, within budget, and to therequisite quality.

Theyare required to manage multiple translation projects at a time, including interactingwith clients on current and forthcoming projects.

Acuerdo de Buenos Aires. septiembre 2011

2011-12-01T12:24:00.001-03:00

para la alianza internacional de profesionales
de la corrección en lengua española

El pasado mes de septiembre, se celebró en Buenos Aires (Argentina) el I Congreso Internacional de Correctores de Textos en Español.

En la página oficial del congreso (www.congresocorrectores.org) pueden descarse muchas de las ponencias, así como lo que han dado en llamar "Acuerdo de Buenos Aires", el comunicado final del congreso y una lista de conclusiones y propuestas.

Anuncian, además, que la segunda edición del Congreso Internacional de Correctores será en Norteamérica, coincidiendo con la XXVI Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (Méjico) en 2012.

How are words added to the dictionary?

2011-11-30T11:54:00.000-03:00

Dictionary.com recently post an interesting article on Words and their addition into the dictionary.
Here is the article:

"The study of words is called lexicology—not to be confused with phraseology, philology, syntax, morphology, lexicography or semantics. How do lexicologists create new words? Actually, they don’t—think how ridiculous it would be if a deranged lexicologist had the power and desire to create hundreds of new words? Rather they observe the way English is used and choose words from their findings.

The English lexicon has mutated over time from a variety of parent languages, primarily Latin, French and Old English. These languages stretch even farther back to a language family called Proto-Indo-European (or PIE). The most significant transformation of English happened in the eleventh century. When the Normans invaded England in the 1066, they brought their words with them. For centuries, wealthier aristocrats spoke Old Norman (or Old French) and the peasantry spoke English (Middle English to be precise). Inevitably, the languages mixed, and English acquired the French words that now constitute about 30% of the English vocabulary.

Interpretación en Rosario ingles-español-portugués

2011-11-21T18:02:00.001-03:00

Ocean Translations es una empresa rosarina de Interpretación con másde 15 años de experiencia.

Tenemos a sudisposición un equipo de intérpretesque facilitan sus eventos en Rosario. Ofrecemos interpretación de calidad inglés – español o español – portuguéspara sus acontecimientos:

Interprete

- Reuniones

- Congresos

- Conferencias

- Visitasdel exterior

- Presentaciones

- Visitasde plantas

- Visitasy excursiones en la ciudad de Rosario

Tambiénofrecemos servicios de transcripción y subtitulados de videos y presentaciones.

Nuestro equipode traductores junto a nuestros diseñadores puede realizar la traducción de suspresentaciones PowerPoint, documentos y sitios web.

Garantizamosuna alta calidad y una entrega rápida de nuestros trabajos de traducción.

Contacte hoyal gerente comercial, Sabine Panneau, por correo a la dirección sabine.panneau@oceantranslations.com o llame al 341 568 1230.

Nuestra web–www.oceantranslations.com

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¿Quiénes somos? Traducción e interpretación inglés, español y portugués en Rosario

2011-11-16T18:47:00.000-03:00

Traducción e interpretación inglés, español y portugués

Ocean Translations es una empresa rosarina de traduccióne interpretación con más de 15 años de experiencia. Ofrecemos traducciones decalidad en inglés, español y portugués (Brasil).

Traducimos todo tipo de archivos y formatos (precio porcantidad de palabras o por minutos de videos):

- páginas web, blog y foros

-         correos electrónicos
-          correspondenciacomercial
-         guías turísticas
-          publicidades, folletosy promociones
-          contratos y acuerdosinternacionales

-         manuales de instrucciones
-          presentaciones y videosinstitucionales
-          notas de prensa ygacetillas

También ofrecemos servicios de subtitulado de videos ypresentaciones.

Nuestro equipo de traductores junto a nuestrosdiseñadores puede realizar la traducción de sus páginas web y software.

Tenemos a su disposición un equipo de intérpretes quefacilitan sus reuniones, visitas del exterior y congresos con servicios deinterpretación simultánea y consecutiva (inglés – español - portugués).

Garantizamos una alta calidad y una entrega rápida denuestros trabajos de traducción.

Contacte al gerente comercial, Sabine Panneau, por correoa la dirección sabine.panneau@oceantranslations.com o llame al 341 568 1230.

Nuestra web –www.oceantranslations.com

Visite nuestra página Facebook - www.facebook.com/Spanishtranslators

Sigános en Twitter - www.twitter.com/OceanTranslat

Tool Box Newsletter by Jost Zetzsche

2011-11-09T15:53:00.000-03:00

Here is the latest issue of the Tool Box Newsletter - A computer newsletter for translation professionals by JostZetzsche.

Click on the image below to read it!

New Network of Translation Partners

2011-11-01T12:11:00.000-03:00

New Network of Translation Partners

We have great pleasure in announcing that our network of partner translation companies now covers 163 countries*, allowing us to translate between all the associated languages.

All of the companies have ISO 9001 or equivalent certification, and all implement EN 15038 quality assurance procedures.

Thanks to these procedures and the location of the companies in each country, the cost and quality of our translations are optimal.

Better still, with this global network, we shall soon be offering a unique service, enabling you to promote your products, sell your services, pick your partners, and monitor your markets worldwide.

As a reader of our newsletter, you will be amongst the first to be informed.

Stay tuned!

Ocean Translations' Team

*Countries covered:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana,Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo,Congo Brazzaville, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti , Dominica, Dominican Republic, DR, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi , Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

English/Spanish Interpretation at PestWorld 2011

2011-10-31T13:35:00.000-03:00

Ocean Translations was appointed by the National Pest Management Association (USA) to provide interpreting services at PestWorld 2011. The Conference was a real success, it took place in New Orleans, USA from October 19th to October 22nd.

One of the Keynote Speakers at PestWorld 2011 was Chief Richard “Pitch” Picciotto, the highest-ranking firefighter to survive the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the collapse of the Twin Towers. Chief Picciotto delivered a very moving and inspiring speech on the Friday of the conference.

Below is a brief description taken from the NPMA program:

Language and Cultural Training Services in Rosario

2011-10-26T12:42:00.001-03:00

Are you working in a multicultural environment inArgentina?

Are you thinking of establishing an overseas presence (particularly in Argentina, Brazil,North America or Europe)

Would you like to improve your interaction with foreignnationals part of your global team?

Are you regularly hosting visitors from abroad andstruggling to make yourself understood?

Have you just relocated in Rosario, Argentina, alone orwith your family?

Are you struggling with culturaland HR issues with your foreign employees?

If YES, then our personalized programs can assist you to ensurethe very best experience and results possible for your company and guaranteea greater outcome for your future business here or abroad.

Ocean Translations provides specialized and sought-after language and cross-cultural trainings online and in-company in Rosario, Argentina.

Here are some examples of our proposed trainings:

- Business English in-company and online classes (beginner,intermediate and advanced levels)

- Business Spanish in-company and online classes (beginner,intermediate and advanced levels)

- Cross-cultural training in Rosario forArgentinean companies planning to do business overseas (Brazil, North America andEurope)

- Cross-cultural training in Rosario on doingbusiness in Argentina

We can also provide answers to any cross-culturalrequests as part of the program, here are a few examples:

o Howdoes the German way of doing business differ from the French or British way?

o Howto prepare a sales pitch for an Argentine company and what is the best way topresent it?

o Howto get excellent results from your Argentinean team using the rightcommunication skills?

o Howto entertain your Latin American business partners?

o Whatare the levels of decision making in Argentina, in the UK, in Holland?

Ocean Translations provides professional trainingsessions catered for today's industry.

Contact us to find out more about ourcatered courses and packages. Send us an email, sabine.panneau@oceantranslations.com

or call us on +54 341 568 1230.

We are your world language partner.

5 Reasons Why Bilingual Staff Shouldn't Do Translations

2011-10-11T12:57:00.000-03:00

For most companies, bilingual executives are great assets as they are able to conduct business in more than one language. However, there is one task you should never ask them to perform and it is to do your translations for business purposes such as translating your company information, business contracts, leaflets, sales letters, newsletters, website or even advertisements.

Here are 5 reasons why your top bilingual executives shouldn't be doing translations:

1 - They have better things to do than performing translation tasks.

Your employees are certainly highly qualified professionals otherwise they wouldn't be part of your team. However if they are bilingual, too often they

Terminology Coordination Unit at the European Parliament

2011-10-05T18:42:00.002-03:00

The Terminology Coordination Team's role in the European Parliament is to assist Translators with their day-to-day tasks. As translating documents into 23 languages can be a large, time-consuming and sometimes challenging task, the TermCoord try to lighten the workload. They do this by extracting difficult language (terminology) from texts and attempt to find definitions and equivalent terms in other languages.

They also coordinate IATE. IATE is a database containing approx. 70 million terms across 23 languages. When a translator finds some kind of new or unusual term (such as the name of a political group, or parts of an engine) the term is entered in IATE. They then ensure that this term is matched in all 23 languages with definitions provided. This helps future translators translate texts.

The TermCoord has recently published a booklet with all the information about TermCoord.

¡Feliz Día del Traductor!

2011-09-30T11:36:00.000-03:00

El Día del Traductor coincide con el Día de San Jerónimo, considerado por muchos como el primer traductor y el patrono de los traductores. San Jerónimo tradujo la Biblia al latín, por allá en el 383 d.C., versión denominada "Vulgata" (probablemente llamada así porque el latín era la lengua del pueblo, y hasta ese entonces la Biblia solamente se encontraba disponible para quienes conocían el griego y el hebreo) y, además, hizo toda una defensa de su traducción en la época, con un documento que se considera como el primer tratado de traductología.

¡Feliz Día a todos!

Diccionario de siglas médicas

2011-09-30T10:29:00.002-03:00

La Sociedad Española de Documentación Médica (SEDOM) es una sociedad científica que agrupa a licenciados en medicina y cirugía especialistas en Documentación Médica.

La SEDOM incorpora a su página Web un diccionario de siglas médicas como herramienta abierta y gratuita a disposición de toda la comunidad científica. Son sus autores Javier Yetano Laguna y Vicent Alberola Cuñat y su primera edición se publicó en 2003. La SEDOM ha decidido actualizarlo y ofrecerlo en formato electrónico.

http://sedom.es/

27/09 - World Tourism Day - Dia Internacional del Turismo

2011-09-27T13:44:00.000-03:00

Today, Ocean Translations is celebrating the World Tourism Day alongside its fellow members of the Rosario Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Los invitamos

2011-09-27T10:31:00.002-03:00

JORNADAS DÍA DEL TRADUCTOR

El 30 de septiembre del corriente se llevará a cabo en el salón de Actos de la Federación Gremial del Comercio e Industria (Córdoba 1868) la Jornada:

“Traducción: palabras y tecnología para unir culturas”

organizada por el Colegio de Traductores de la Provincia de Santa Fe (2ª Circ.) en conmemoración de su día.

La misma está dirigida a traductores, intérpretes y estudiantes de
traductorados.

Los invitamos a conocer a Virginia Castelli, Vendor Manager de Ocean Translations, y a Sabrina Maceda, QA manager, quienes participarán en la jornada.

Inscripción e informes:
Colegio de Traductores de la Pcia. de Sta. Fe (2ª Circ.)
Córdoba 1868 – 2º piso – Of. 207
Telefax: 0341-4488504
colegio@traductoresrosario.org.ar
www.traductoresrosario.org.ar

Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English

2011-09-26T16:11:00.002-03:00

America's beloved grammar expert Patricia T. O'Conner has revisited her indispensable survival guide to the English language, offering fresh insights into the usage of which and that, who and whom, colons and semicolons, and more. In these pages you'll find commonsense, jargon-free, even witty answers to most questions about the basics as well as the subtleties of grammar, style, and usage.

Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English.

Ocean Translations Newsletter

2011-09-23T14:14:00.003-03:00

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Ocean Translations at the translator virtual conference

2011-09-23T09:30:00.000-03:00

Ocean Translations will be participating in the translator virtual conference!

From September 26th to September 30th, we will be taking part in the 3rd freelance translator virtual conference series organized by ProZ.com.

There will 5 days of online events for translators and language professionals. On September 28th, Ocean Translations will be taking part in the Recruitment day. This is a free event for translators and agencies; registered participants will be permitted to view all listings from agencies and LSP's that have recruitment needs.

As you may know we are currently looking for freelance translators to join our team of linguists. Click here to check our requirements.

To register to attend this ProZ virtual event series - click the "Register now" link.

Online Etymologies Dictionary

2011-09-20T13:58:00.002-03:00

In this post we would like to present etymonline.com, an online dictionary of etymologies.
Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

For each term, you will find a date representing the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). Dates around 1700 should be taken as approximate, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript.

The author of this website is Douglas Harper an American historian, author, journalist and lecturer, and according to him "this is a never-ending project as people will continue to use words as they will, finding wider meanings for old words and coining new ones to fit new situations. In fact, this list is a testimony to that process."

http://www.etymonline.com/

¿cómo se llaman estos signos de puntuación < > ?

2011-09-16T14:42:00.000-03:00

La RAE le llama antilambda (signo griego para la l, lambda) o diple. El nombre original griego es diplé (διπλή'doble'), con acento en la e. En alemán se emplea como sustantivo femenino y con acento en la e: die Diplé, siguiendo el orignal griego.

Portuguese and Spanish Translation of SAP Solutions

2011-09-16T13:49:00.001-03:00

In the last few years, we have seen an increase in demand for translations into Spanish and into Portuguese of SAP solutions.
For those not familiar with these kind of projects, let me give you a little bit of background about SAP.

Translators Quiz

2011-09-15T15:31:00.000-03:00

A Word Game from Oxford Dictionaries.com website!

Do you know your contronyms from your homonyms or your antonyms? Translators are often confronted to these words and when faced to the task of translating them in their native language, the context in which there are found will be crucial at the time of translating it so it cannot be overlooked!

Contronyms are word that can take two (or more) opposite meanings; e.g. fast means "moving quickly" or "fixed firmly in place", overlook means "to watch over carefully" or "to fail to notice". Also called contranym, contronym, antilogy, enantiodrome, Janus word, two-faced words.

Here is a little quiz taken from the Oxford Dictionaries website:

Can you identify these contradictory words?

Você é tradutor de inglês<>português?

2011-09-14T19:17:00.001-03:00

Quer formar parte do nosso time de tradutores de português do Brasil?

Gostaríamos que você entrasse em contato conosco.

Due to growing demand, weare looking for native Portuguese (Brazil) translators with proven experience inspecialist sector.

Freelance translators mustsatisfy the following criteria:

Native speakers

Minimum of 2years of experience as professional translators

RelevantUniversity Degree or equivalent

Ifyou are interested in working withOcean Translations and join our EN< > PT (Br) team, then please email your CV in English +rates to our Vendor Manager: virginia.castelli@oceantranslations.com

We look forward to hearingfrom you!

New Company Profile Presentation

2011-09-13T13:05:00.002-03:00

This is our Latest Company profile!

Click on the arrow to move to the next image.

Do you like it? leave us your thoughts below

Join Ocean Translations' team of freelancers

2011-09-07T17:33:00.001-03:00

Join our team offreelance Translators

We are always on thelookout for the best translation professionals who are ready to contribute to our clients' success and growth generation by allowing them to communicate effectively to their target audience.

Due to growing demand, weare looking for native translation professionals with proven experience inspecialist sectors in the following language pairs:

Spanish into English

English < > Portuguese (Br)

Freelance translators mustsatisfy the following criteria:

- Native speakers

- Minimum of 2years of experience as professional translators

- RelevantUniversity Degree

Ifyou are interested in working withOcean Translations, then please email your CV +rates to our Vendor Manager: virginia.castelli@oceantranslations.com

We look forward to hearingfrom you!

ProZ.com - Jornadas de Actualización para Traductores Latinoamericanos

2011-09-07T15:38:00.000-03:00

El 29 y 30 de octubre, la fecha escogida para las Jornadas de Actualización para Traductores, está cada día más cerca.

El motivo de este mensaje es compartir algunas novedades:

- ProZ.com está preparando una oferta especial para quienes participen en la semana de eventos virtuales (http://www.proz.com/virtual-conferences/group/2 ) y deseen asistir a la conferencia en Montevideo. Pronto habrá más novedades sobre esta oferta.

- La Conferencia Latinoamericana se ha asociado con la III Conferencia Brasilera de Traductores de Proz.

- Se está tramitando la acreditación de puntos para los miembros de ATA.

Pueden obtener más información sobre la Conferencia Latinoamericana en http://www.proz.com/conference/203

Top 8 Best Free Medical Reference Apps for Medical Translations

2011-09-06T19:07:00.002-03:00

In today's world, there are some technology tools and applications software (apps) that cannot be ignored. Whether you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, you can get the latest evidence based medicine updates anytime, anywhere. Tablets and Smartphones are proving to be a very important tool for improving quality of healthcare.

Here's a list of the Top 8 Best Free Medical Reference Apps which physicians are already using for clinical purposes and which could be very useful for medical translators and interpreters.

PLoS: PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Read the most recent articles from the seven journals published by the Public Library of Science. PLoS Reader is designed just for the iPad and features a full-screen, page-turning interface.
Medscape: The number 1 downloaded free medical app in 2010. Medscape from WebMD is the largest, most comprehensive, free medical app available for healthcare professionals. Apps for android and iPad
PubMed Mobile: Search PubMed database with over 19 million citations for biomedical articles and life science journals. PubMed On Tap (for iPad) searches PubMed to find and display reference information.
CCO Oncology inPractice: The Clinical Care Options (CCO) Oncology inPractice application is a comprehensive digital textbook designed for healthcare professionals needing to find information rapidly at the point of care.
Skyscape Medical Resources: The Skyscape Medical Resources app is used by more than 1 million healthcare professionals (HCPs) to access the medical resources they know and trust at the point of care. This valuable decision-support tool helps physicians, nurses, students and other HCPs find the right answers, right away
Epocrates: Epocrates is the #1 mobile drug reference resource used by healthcare providers at the point of care. Trusted for accurate content and innovative offerings, physicians choose Epocrates 3 to 1 as their point of care drug reference of choice.
WebMD: Check your symptoms, access drug & treatment information, get first aid essentials, and even local health listings.
Fundación ZonasCardio RCP-DESA: Entirely in Spanish, this video-based app gives out the recommendations of the European Resuscitation Council.

Are you using any other medical apps not listed here? let us know and leave a comment below.

Medical Spanish Interpretation at the Argentine Convention of Gastroenterology and Gastric Endoscopy

2011-09-01T14:23:00.000-03:00

Betty Galiano from Ocean Translations has been invited by Mrs. Ana de Choch to be part of the team of specialized English and Spanish interpreters at the Argentine Convention of Gastroenterology and Gastric Endoscopy which is being held in Rosario, Argentina on September 1,2 and 3.

[ProZ.com] - Seminario para estudiantes de traducción y traductores noveles

2011-08-31T16:03:00.002-03:00

Comunicación de ProZ.com

Seminario para estudiantes de traducción y traductores noveles

La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina) - 8 de octubre de 2011

¿Conocés las mejores estrategias para ser un traductor exitoso? ¿Sabés cómo conseguir clientes internacionales? ¿Cuánto cobrar? ¿Cómo facturar? ¿Cómo gestionar un proyecto de traducción? ¿Con qué herramientas cuenta un traductor? ¿Qué es una CAT Tool?

Si estas son algunas de tus preguntas, te invitamos a asistir a la segunda edición del exitoso Seminario para estudiantes de traducción y traductores noveles de ProZ.com, que se realizará el 8 de octubre en la ciudad de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Este encuentro de jornada completa está orientado especialmente a

David Bellos looks at the art of translation

2011-08-30T14:32:00.004-03:00

How do you give directions if your language has no "left" or "right"? Why would you need a word for the number 1.25? And how do you translate a joke?

David Bellos looks at the peculiarities of language and the art of translation as a part of his book IS THAT A FISH IN YOUR EAR? TRANSLATION AND THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING.

Ocean Translations at the ATA Annual Conference 2011

2011-08-29T10:08:00.002-03:00

Be a part of the most important event for translators and join us at the 52nd ATA Annual Conference in Boston.

Essential Networking

Connect with over 1,800 colleagues from throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Build potential partnerships and begin relationships that will help you personally and professionally.
Listen to the buzz of discussions among freelancers, project managers, business owners, and government representatives.
Renew your motivation by meeting people with similar interests and sharing your experiences.

Valuable Sessions

Get the education you need by choosing from 175 sessions featuring a variety of languages, topics, and skill levels.
Focus on practical skills and theory, or join discussions that examine the current state of your profession or offer a look to the future.
Discover the lessons learned from colleagues who have dealt with the exact problems you are currently facing.
Be inspired and challenged to consider new ideas.

See you in Boston!

52.ª Conferencia Anual de la ATA

2011-08-29T09:51:00.002-03:00

La 52.ª Conferencia Anual de la ATA, uno de los eventos más importantes para traductores e intérpretes en los EE. UU., se llevará a cabo del 26 al 29 de octubre de 2011, en Boston, Massachusetts.

Los invitamos a que nos conocen en Boston y así ser parte de un evento que les brindará la oportunidad excepcional de promoverse a sí mismos y a sus servicios. Como asistentes, podrán elegir entre más de 150 sesiones didácticas, que abordarán una amplia variedad de temas e idiomas para todos los niveles profesionales. Las sesiones no solo serán valiosas por su componente educativo, sino que les permitirán establecer lazos profesionales con una red de 1.800 colegas de todo el mundo.

Una vez más, los animamos a unirse a nosotros en la 52.ª Conferencia Anual de la ATA. Esperamos poder compartir la experiencia 2011 con todos ustedes.

Más información acerca de la 52.ª Conferencia Anual de la ATA está disponible en http://www.atanet.org/conf/2011/

¡Nos vemos en Boston!

In great company at the 7th Language & Technology Conference in Cordoba, Argentina

2011-08-24T19:25:00.005-03:00

Sabrina Maceda Muraca, Production and QA Manager, and Sabine Panneau, Business Development Manager, attended the 7th Language & Technology Conference in Cordoba, Argentina organized by IMTT. We were one of the sponsors of this great conference which dealt mainly with the reality of the translation industry in Latin America and its relation to the world from a two-side perspective: freelancer (vendor) and company (client).

We assisted at some very interesting sessions and it generated constructive debates in 3 languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese thanks to the participation of freelance translators and LSPs from the Americas.

We will give a more detailed feedback on the conference shortly but in the meantime, here is a short selection of some of the tweets published during the conference:

The usual TEP project is not profitable any more, we need to customize models for every particular client

Good - cheap - fast. Choose only two! Good & fast isn't cheap, cheap & good isn't fast and fast & cheap isn't good!

We going towards more translation of dynamic real-time content said @kvashee and only Machine Translation can deliver that kind of amount.

"Argentina is a great place for translations. Good universities, good expertise, good people." @renatobeninatto

Free Research Brief for Translations Buyers

2011-08-23T16:34:00.000-03:00

Are you a buyer of translations?

Would you like to receive a complimentary research brief from Common Sense Advisory?

If the answer is yes then by filling out a short survey from the Common Sense Advisory, you will receive a FREE research brief.

Click on the link below to fill out your survey:

www.research.net/s/8CSYSKV

"Common Sense Advisory’s quality report has a lot of great information and can serve as a guide for implementing or improving the quality process.” - Wayne Bourland, Dell (USA)

Useful Medical Spell Check for Translators

2011-08-19T13:30:00.001-03:00

This Free Medical Spell Check is a medical terminology spelling reference tool. It was designed primarily for medical transcription students and professionals, yet it can also be enjoyed by anyone who needs to verify medical terminology spellings such as medical translators and reviewers.

With the Free Medical Spell Checker you can quickly verify the proper spelling of medical terms in almost every medical specialty and field.

It works just like a medical speller book, however since it is a medical speller software tool you simply can start typing in the medical term you want to spell check and with every keystroke you will be automatically stepping closer to the correct medical spelling.

Best of all, it's 100% Free!

Read more and download: Free Medical Spell Checker

Online Buyers Are More Responsive To Their Own Language

2011-08-15T18:43:00.005-03:00

According to recent studies, nearly 3/4 of online buyers are more likely to buy from a website available in their native languages.

So what are companies waiting for to get their websites and other communication pieces translated into other languages?

According to one of the Common Sense Advisory reports, " Many companies do business internationally, but very few display the best practices for global website design." Companies need to be careful with how many languages their website is translated into and what country flags to display.

There are sensible variations depending on the audience type, the company headquarters country, and industry sector. More and more companies are really embracing this social media revolution, by being active on social networks, producing quality videos and interactive elements, and by interacting with customers on user forums. But they rarely consider using these modern forms of communications in other languages as well.

Is your website translated into more than one language?

III JORNADA DE LA COMISIÓN DE IDIOMA ESPAÑOL

2011-08-02T14:53:00.003-03:00

«El español en los medios»

Sábado 13 de agosto, de 10.00 a 16.00

Ocean Translations Blog: Spotlight on:

2011-07-27T12:43:00.001-03:00

Ocean Translations Blog: Spotlight on: Spanish into English Translations

Recomendación del día - Fundéu BBVA

2011-07-26T12:23:00.000-03:00

"hoja de ruta": uso y abuso

Se advierte del uso abusivo de la expresión hoja de ruta en el lenguaje político y periodístico y se recomienda que se alterne con otras expresiones equivalentes como planes, agenda, programación, planificación

Ocean Translations - New YouTube videos

2011-07-25T17:59:00.001-03:00

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2011-07-21T17:45:00.003-03:00

Spanish to English Translation by Ocean Translations

Although we specialize in English to Spanish and Portuguese translations services, we regularly translate Spanish and Portuguese documents into English, using teams of native and experienced English translators and editors.

American English and British English Translation

Over the years, we have sent teams of linguists providing high quality American English and British English translations to some of our most renowned clients. They have demonstrated a high level of expertise and professionalism, working on a wide range of content.

Expert English Translator Teams

We have gathered teams of British and American language experts with a track record of client satisfaction in terms of quality, reliability and expertise. As with any of our projects, quality comes first because we know that our clients have stringent requirements that need to be met for every project.

Our Quality Assurance team oversees all our projects and ensures that our English translations meet our clients’ requisites.

As ever, all our translations include editing and proofreading by English language experts as a standard.

Our teams are able to provide English translations with the various country variations such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and Australia, among others as the English language has many variations depending on the country.

For instance in American English you would fill out a form but in British English you would fill in a form.

Contact us today to see how we can help you with your “Into English” translations and make sure that they get the right country feel and look.

Ocean Translation – info@oceantranslations.com +54 341 568 1230

www.oceantranslations.com

Google Search Secrets - How to Search like a Pro

2011-07-19T16:35:00.006-03:00

As a translator, there is a wide range of online resources that you probably use on a daily basis. But do you know if you are making the most of them?

In this post, I would like to take a closer look at Google and see if you are making the most it. If you’re like me, you probably use Google many times a day but, chances are, you probably still use Google in its simplest form. If your current use of Google is limited to typing a few words in, and changing your query until you find what you’re looking for, then let me tell you that there’s a better way – and they are simple to use.

Here are 8 Google Search Tips

Explicit Phrase:
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Free access to the Cambridge University Press

2011-07-18T15:37:00.000-03:00

In line with the commitment of Cambridge University Press to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide, the Press currently publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. Containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas, Cambridge journals are accessible worldwide in print and online.

All articles published in Cambridge journals in 2009 and 2010 are now free to access for 6 weeks, from 15th July until 30th August 2011.

To access simply visit journals.cambridge.org.

Multilingual Glossary on Agriculture

2011-07-15T11:13:00.002-03:00

This multilingual glossary on agriculture was compiled by the RUAF Foundation (an international network of resource centers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security)

Subtitling translation by Ocean Translations

2011-07-14T10:11:00.010-03:00

As announced last month, we are very pleased to offer subtitling translations to all our clients.

Whether subtitling translation is needed for the release of a DVD, a TV show, a documentary, a promotional ad or any online video, we are able to help you maximize the impact of your visual communications.

Partner with us for all your subtitles needs!

Our team is comprised of experienced translators, editors and language experts combined with engineers who assure the subtitles are correct both from a linguistic and technical perspective. By choosing Ocean Translations for your subtitling needs, you will join a long list of satisfied clients who trust us not only for their Spanish and Portuguese translations, but also for their subtitling translations. We are able to support virtually any language.

Did you know there was a code of practice of subtitling?

A few years ago two of the best-known actors in the subtitling sector, Jan Ivarsson, former head of development of Swedish Television, and Mary Carroll, Managing Director of Titelbild, Berlin teamed up to create the code of practice of subtitling. This code was later accredited by the ESIST, the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation and is now used by many of us within the industry.

Contact us now to discuss your language needs with one of our Project Managers.

Official name of FAO in Spanish

2011-07-13T13:51:00.000-03:00

Please note that the 37^th Session of the FAO Conference approved the proposed change of the official name of FAO in Spanish so that the word “food” should precede the word “agriculture”, for the sake of consistency among the designations of the Organization in other language versions.

Therefore, the new official name of FAO in Spanish is: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura.

Nombre oficial de la FAO en español

Se ruega tomar nota de que, en su 37.º período de sesiones, la Conferencia de la FAO aprobó la propuesta de cambiar el nombre oficial de la FAO en español de manera que la palabra “alimentación” precediera a la palabra “agricultura”, a fin de mantener la coherencia con las designaciones de la Organización en los otros idiomas.
Por consiguiente, la nueva denominación oficial en español es: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura.

Ocean Translations Newsletter

2011-07-12T18:29:00.003-03:00

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Taller de Traducción de textos al portugués

2011-07-07T14:27:00.000-03:00

	LA ASOCIACIÓN ARGENTINA DE TRADUCTORES E INTÉRPRETES (AATI) www.aati.org.ar tiene el agrado de auspiciar su
Agosto 2011 Traductora Gabriela Cetlinas Traductora de portugués al español y al francés; traductora inversa al portugués; formada en Portugal y en Brasil. Profesora de portugués y de francés. Amplísima experiencia en traducción de documentos técnicos, corporativos y de interés general para empresas privadas, entidades bancarias, editoriales y otros. Intérprete de conferencias para diversas actividades y jornadas; interpretación en encuentros relacionados con el Mercosur. Miembro de la AATI VACANTES LIMITADAS	Taller de Traducción de textos al portugués coordinado por la Trad. Gabriela Cetlinas
	Inicio lunes 8 de agosto Duración cuatro semanas Modalidad a distancia (exclusivamente a través de Internet y el foro de la AATI)
	Inscripción, consultas y dudas en cursos@aati.org.ar hasta el miércoles 3 de agosto. Socios de la AATI (con cuota al día) y alumnos de traductorados: $ 330 No socios residentes en la Argentina: $ 520 Futuros profesionales: $ 270 Socios de la AATI (con cuota al día) residentes en el exterior: US$ 90 No socios residentes en el exterior: US$ 150
	NOTA: La asistencia a este curso otorga 8 puntos del programa CE de la ATA.
	TEMARIO: · Módulo 1: Traducción de textos periodísticos. · Módulo 2: Traducción de textos científico-técnicos. · Módulo 3: Traducción de textos de turismo. · Módulo 4: Traducción de textos de informática. Contenidos gramaticales: · Verbos: Regencia Verbal. Futuro del Subjuntivo. Voz Pasiva. · Substantivos: Nominalización. Falsos cognados. · Pronombre: Colocación pronominal adecuada al tipo de discurso. · Acentuación y ortografía: nuevo Acuerdo Ortográfico.

Jornadas de Actualización para Traductores Latinoamericanos

2011-07-06T16:06:00.001-03:00

Ya está publicado el programa de la Primera Conferencia Latinoamericana de ProZ.com, Jornadas de Actualización para Traductores Latinoamericanos, que se llevará a cabo en la ciudad de Montevideo, Uruguay, los días 29 y 30 de octubre 2011.

La conferencia contará con la presencia de destacados oradores nacionales e internacionales que abordarán diferentes temas teóricos, aspectos técnicos y comerciales que nos ayudarán a mejorar la calidad de nuestro trabajo, aumentar nuestra productividad y maximizar nuestros ingresos.

Ya están confirmado presentadores y panelistas de Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil, Chile y España y podemos anticipar los siguientes temas:

Personal branding
Calidad del servicio de traducción
Teoría y práctica de la localización
El humor en la traducción audiovisual
Dudas ortográficas y novedades de la reforma académica
Interpretación transcultural
Seguridad, privacidad y respaldo de la información
Revisión de traducciones
La traducción en América Latina
Exportación de servicios
Herramientas de traducción asistida por computadora

Más información en la página de la conferencia - http://www.proz.com/conference/203

WHO - list of essential medicines

2011-07-05T09:27:00.004-03:00

WHO supports countries in the selection of essential medicines by publishing the Model List of Essential Medicines, which serves as a guide to the development of national essential medicines lists.

Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. They are selected with due regard to public health relevance, evidence on efficacy and safety, and comparative cost-effectiveness.

Careful selection of a limited range of essential medicines results in a higher quality of care for patients, better management and use of medicines and more cost-effective use of health resources. Clinical guidelines and lists of essential medicines positively impact the availability and proper use of medicines within health care systems.

Catálogo de medicamentos - Argentina

Check out other National Medicines List/Formulary/Standard Treatment Guidelines

Resources for translators - the IMF Terminology

2011-07-04T12:01:00.001-03:00

IMF Terminology

This terminology list contains over 150,000 terms useful to translators working with IMF material. It provides English terms with their equivalents in a number of languages. (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian)

This list includes words, phrases, and institutional titles commonly encountered in IMF documents in areas such as money and banking, public finance, balance of payments, and economic growth.

Daily Spanish tips from Fundéu

2011-07-01T11:45:00.000-03:00

a sí mismo, así mismo y asimismo: usos y diferencias

A sí mismo, así mismo y asimismo tienen un sonido prácticamente igual, pero significan cosas distintas.

La grafía a sí mismo está formada por la preposición a, el pronombre reflexivo sí y el adjetivo mismo y, por ser adjetivo, admite variaciones de género y número (‘a sí misma’, ‘a sí mismos’, ‘a sí mismas’): «Los tres ediles se votaron a sí mismos en la investidura».

Las formas así mismo y asimismo se emplean indistintamente cuando su significado es el de ‘también o además’: «Así mismo, señalaba que no se ha planteado en ningún momento formar equipo de Gobierno»; «Asimismo señalan que el cambio climático provocará una disminución del área de distribución de muchas especies forestales».

También se escribe así mismo, en dos palabras, cuando se trata del adverbio así y del adjetivo mismo, en el que este último funciona como refuerzo y puede omitirse: «Lo hizo así (mismo)».

Recomendacion del día en nuestra pagina Facebook y la web fundeu.es

Daily Spanish tips from Fundéu on our facebook page

2011-06-30T14:24:00.001-03:00

Recomendación del día -

***darse cuenta de que, no darse cuenta que***

En la expresión se dio cuenta de que no se debe suprimir la preposición de.

En algunas noticias aparecen los giros se dio cuenta que y se dieron cuenta que: «Se dio cuenta que atravesaban por las mismas dificultades y por ello decidieron agruparse»; «Cuando el hombre abrió el baúl se dieron cuenta que era una bomba».

Darse cuenta de algo significa ‘advertirlo’ o ‘percatarse de ello’ y el complemento de esta locución verbal se introduce con la preposición de, aun en los casos en los que sigue la conjunción que, según señala el Diccionario panhispánico de dudas.

En consecuencia, en los ejemplos citados debió haberse escrito: «Se dio cuenta de que atravesaban por las mismas dificultades y por ello decidieron agruparse»; «Cuando el hombre abrió el baúl se dieron cuenta de que era una bomba».

Interpretation assignment in Rosario, Argentina

2011-06-23T15:20:00.001-03:00

Ocean Translation is providing interpreting services at Biotech Forum 2011. This event is taking place at the Stock Exchange Building in the city of Rosario, Argentina.

There are very interesting round tables on cutting edge technology, modern approach to productivity, Plant Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, Molecular Biology of Plants and Microorganisms, Reseach and Business in this field, Legal Aspects of Plant Breeding and GM Foods.

for more information about our interpreting services, contact us info@oceantranslations.com or give us a call on +54 341 568 1230

Upcoming conferences

2011-06-21T14:44:00.000-03:00

IMTT Language & Technology Conference - 20th, 21st, 22nd August 2011 - Córdoba, Argentina
The 7th Language & Technology Conference will set the floor for elevated and in-depth discussions that will result in a better understanding of both, vendor and client.

Translating and the Computer Conference – 17th & 18th November 2011 - London, UK
The Translating and the Computer Conference is now in its 33rd year! The conference is a meeting point for translators, researchers and students in the translation and localization field.

The translator as a language guardian

2011-06-16T13:30:00.004-03:00

As Luciana Ramos wrote in an article on the new spelling and the role of Spanish translators, in our routine as professional translators, we are faced with new challenges every day!

Here is a short extract of this paper:

...
As a basic rule, if you want to succeed as a guardian you must first arm yourself
with a shield... DOUBT. If you doubt, you research, you learn, you doubt again and double check, and you can then discuss about it and enrich yourself from others' viewpoints and eventually make a choice. As translators we are decision-makers, and our decisions forge the language that millions of people will use or repeat. We should ponder on our own language, become aware of its expressive capabilities, the linguistic structures that compound it, and of the enormous wealth its unity and variety can accumulate. Recently, the Real Academia Española has released the latest versions of the grammar and orthography rules, called in Spanish “Nueva gramática de la lengua española” and “Ortografía de la lengua española”, respectively. In such resources, the translator will not only find the norm (ruling all the Spanish speakers, irrespective of their geographicallocation) but also reference to variations or traits related to certain communities, times or social spectra. For the sake of language semantics, doubt should always lead you to the dictionary.

Read the whole article below or in the June 2011 isssue of Multilingual

Latest news - Subtitling

2011-06-09T07:54:00.004-03:00

Ocean Translations S.R.L., a provider of translations, DTP and interpreting services is pleased to annouce a new service of dubbing, subtitling, closed captioning and translation of audiovisual material.

"We are thrilled to provide subtitling, dubbing and closed captioning to our expanding list of clients. We are keen to increase our portfolio of language services and adding this kind of support can only strengthen our relationship with our existing and future clients. From now on, we are not only offering great quality translations and DTP but are also fulfilling our clients' need for other language solutions such as subtitling and closed captioning." says Betty Galiano, President of Ocean Translations.

For more information, please contact us info@oceantranslations.com.

Convención Nacional de Traductores e Intérpretes en BA

2011-06-07T09:20:00.000-03:00

Mensaje de Sabrina Maceda, QA Manager de Ocean Translations:

"Fue un enorme placer poder presentar "El entorno del traductor actual" en la Mesa Redonda II “Las nuevas tecnologías: ¿calidad versus productividad?” en la Primera Convención Nacional de Traductores e Intérpretes en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, “Español, Tecnología y Realidad profesional”, 28 de mayo de 2011 en San Isidro.

Muchas gracias"

Closing down of the Google Translate API

2011-05-30T16:43:00.002-03:00

You may have read in the news that Google announced the closure of its Translation API in December 2011.

But what does it actually means?

How will this affect the translation industry?

Note that Google announced the closure of the Google Translation API and not the Google Translate web application.

want to know the implications of this decision, read this article by Renato Beninatto on the closure of Google translate API

Translation Memory export creator

2011-05-30T16:10:00.001-03:00

TMbuilder - the easiest Translation Memory export creator is a small tool that makes building up TM export/import files as straight-forward as possible. The 1.01 build uses code pieces from a previously created console-based version but has a nice and handy GUI. It was written in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 so the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is necessary to use the application.

As mentions Tomasz Akudowicz, "TMbuilder was created to save [...] time that could be wasted using Trados' WinAlign or any other commercially available alignment programs which usually don't offer an acceptable merging quality."

Check out this Translation Memory export tool for yourself!

Congreso de Correctores de Textos

2011-05-27T09:12:00.000-03:00

Del 14 al 16 de septiembre se celebrará en Buenos Aires el Primer Congreso de Correctores de Textos de Buenos Aires.

El evento está organizado conjuntamente por Fundación Litterae / Casa del Corrector (Argentina), la Asociación de Profesionales de la Edición y Corrección (PEAC) de México, la Unión de Correctores (UniCo) de España y la Asociación de Correctores de Textos del Perú (ASCOT).

Los socios que deseen más información pueden encontrarla en:

http://www.congresocorrectores.org/

Ocean Translations at the 2011 ALC Conference

2011-05-26T13:18:00.005-03:00

Last week, the Association of Language Companies (ALC) held their annual conference in Las Vegas and I had the pleasure of attending the event and meeting so many colleagues within the industry.

The ALC had prepared an interesting conference program with a special emphasis on maximizing your business (with an great pre-conference sales workshop organised by the Common Sense Advisory and Selling Translations^® led by Nataly Kelly and Doug Lawrence)

As I mentioned on twitter, there is one term that kept coming back in many sessions in Las Vegas and it is differentiation.

We are all in the translation business and potentially all offering the same thing, translation by native speakers, great quality, ISO certification, stringent processes, etc. but none of these invaluable and great arguments are USP (unique selling propositions) if we are all offering the same.

So, what makes us really unique?

What do we have to offer that others don't?

What are our strengths?

And most importantly how are we differentiating ourselves from the other LSPs?

Is it our niche sector? Our selection and on-going training program? Our rates? Our speed? etc.

These are some of the questions that any business that wants to market itself as an expert and a leader in any industry needs to answer.

Here are my highlights of the conference:

Keynote Address by Nataly Kelly on "Maximizing LSP Value"

Sales and Marketing Session (with some very useful tips on online marketing (social media and online presence), offline marketing and setting up a sales team)

Gala speed networking session (a great way to get to meet many people in a short amount of time!)

"ALC Town Hall" session (our marketing group learnt a lot from each other's experience, what works and what does not)

Sessions on Machine Translations and Technology. Jost Zetzsche's session on Technology was particularly interesting and I totally agreed with him LSPs shouldn't be using all the same tools and whenever possible we need to develop our own tools that are specific to our organization to better serve our customers' needs.

All in all, it was a really good conference: an investment that always pays off!

Sandy Dupleich, President of ALC with Sabine Panneau, Ocean Translations and Roberto Ganzerli, President of ELIA

I look forward to seeing many of you again at other international translation conferences such as the upcoming IMTT Language & Technology Conference in Cordoba, Argentina on 20, 21 , 22 August 2011.

posted by Sabine Panneau, 26 May 2011

Interpretation in Argentina

2011-05-13T14:22:00.010-03:00

Another very busy time for the Ocean Translations interpretation team!

As well as helping companies around the world communicate effectively with their stakeholders on various media (online and offline), Ocean Translations is also helping organizations and individuals at conferences, meetings and other business settings communicate from English to Spanish and Portuguese and vice versa.

While making business, talking to patients or customers, reporting to shareholders, informing the public or just doing your job, our aim is to facilitate all the processes where language is a potential barrier in your activities.

Our interpreters provide consecutive and simultaneous interpreting services for events such as conferences, seminars, corporate meeting and many more.

Here are a couple of examples from our recent assignments:

- 13-14 March 2011 in Punta del Este in Uruguay. ELIXA REGIONAL INVESTIGATORS MEETINGS (Clinical Trial)

- 31 March 2011 in Rosario -Interpretation for Coaching and Leadership congress at the CityCenter.

- 27-29 April 2011 in Rosario. Our team interpreted at the Argentine Conference of the Rubber Technology

- May 2011 in Rosario. Ocean Translations provided interpretation services for the Slullitel Institute for their on-going international training courses on Sports Medicine.

- 12-14 May 2011 in Rosario. Betty Galiano interpreted at the 19th Argentine and International Conference on Phlebology and Lymphology "XIX Congreso Argentino e Internacional de Flebología y Linfología".

As we can see, our team participated in a wide range of events providing Spanish Interpretation in Rosario and the rest of Argentina. In the past months, we have also provided interpretation in Uruguay and Japan.

Ocean Translations' interpreters are unmatched in language skill and interpersonal communication ability, which ensures that you can be confident that our interpreters will not only provide a strengthening bond but will also provide a precise interpretation of what was conveyed.

Want to know more how we can help your business communicate effectively in Spanish and Portuguese, send us an email:

info@oceantranslations.com

We are your world language partner.

Localization Certification and Localization Project Management Certification

2011-05-12T15:20:00.000-03:00

2011 Localization Certification and Localization Project Management Certification

http://rce.csuchico.edu/localize

Start Online Right Away! Hands-on Workshops - San Francisco, June 2011

We are pleased to announce that we are a media sponsor for the Localization Certification and Localization Project Management programs.

California State University, Chico Continuing Education, in partnership with The Localization Institute, is pleased to announce the extension of its panel of industry experts who now include: Martin Guttinger, Manager of Translation and Localization for Cisco Systems Voice Technology Group; Anna Schlegel, Senior Globalization Manager at NetApp; Angelika Zerfass, localization consultant; Lydia Clarke, Program Manager at Acclaro; Danica Brinton, Senior Director of International, Zynga; Matt Sanford, Technology Manager, Twitter International; Alan Ong, Senior Localization Analyst at eBay; Steven Loomis, IBM; Michael Ow, IBM; Jacq Gwenhaël, Internationalization Manager for Facebook, Karen Combe, Vice President of Localization at PTC; Stephan Cocron, Global Content Manager at VeriSign; Willi Stoeller, Director at Lingotek; Marie Salet, Principal CMS Engineer, Autodesk; and Carsten Kneip, International Program Manager at Microsoft.

Please help us spread the word and forward this note to friends and colleagues who will benefit from this great learning opportunity.

Participants can start the online learning modules right away and make plans to attend the hands-on workshop sessions and exams which will be presented in San Francisco starting June 20.

See you in San Francisco!

Enroll Now >> http://rce.csuchico.edu/localize

ApSIC Xbench

2011-05-11T13:41:00.000-03:00

ApSIC Xbench is an integrated reference tool aimed to provide a clear and structured view of the terminology of any translation project. This product supports a number of input formats including Trados, Wordfast, SDLX, etc...

ApSIC XBench provides a unified and convenient view of the bilingual information, which can be prioritized by the user as required.

ApSIC Xbench also features powerful Quality Assurance features, to check for consistency, numeric values and more.

Check out their website for more information and download - http://www.apsic.com/en/products_xbench.html

Ocean Translations at the 2011 ALC Conference

2011-05-11T13:07:00.002-03:00

The Association of Language Companies (ALC) is an organization representing businesses within the translation, interpretation, localization, and language training sector. They will be holding their annual conference next week in Las Vegas and Sabine Panneau, Business Development Manager at Ocean Translations will attending the conference.

2011 ALC Annual Conference - 18 - 21 May 2011 - Las Vegas

We are inviting you to get in touch with Sabine, learn about our company and discuss opportunities of partnership.

Email her to arrange a meeting: sabine.panneau@oceantranslations.com

The conference will be a great place to meet colleagues, learn about the latest industry trends, hear from industry experts, and discover the latest products and services of the industry.

1st International T3L Conference: Tradumatica, Translation Technologies & Localization

2011-05-02T12:26:00.003-03:00

Barcelona - Spain - June 2011

The coming of age of Translation Technologies in Translation Studies

The research group Tradumàtica (Translation and Information and Communication Technologies), in conjunction with the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) are organising the first International T3L conference (Tradumatica, Translation Technologies & Localization) on June 21st - 22nd , 2011.

The aim of the conference is to bring together active change agents in the sector who, despite the adverse economic circumstances, are interested in exploring new avenues of research and development.

For more information and registration, visit their website.

True value of translation and localization

2011-04-28T16:17:00.004-03:00

After reading an article by Renato Beninatto on globalization and a comment by Reinhard Schaler, I started thinking of the true value of translation and localization and how we communicate our message to our clients. I totally agree with Reinhard when he says that "money is not what matters most to people and that people living in the 21st century are much more interested in autonomy and purpose".

It reminded me of a quote by Simon Sinek I heard recently:

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

This is definitely the way forward for any organization that wants to survive in the GILT sector or any sector for that matter.

I like this way of thinking that places the "why we do what we do" before the actual product or service that we do. Everyone and every business will have their very own explanation to the whys and that's what makes us unique. As for many of us, it started with a passion for languages, communicating with others in a foreign language and learning about new cultures, only then it became a career prospect and eventually a profession or a business. This brings back to my original thought of the true value of translation.

Whether it is about sharing or giving access to information and knowledge, communication, bridging communities, learning from others or offering equal opportunities, translation is an essential element in all these and many organizations, communities and nations could not live without it.

Language these days is not an impediment in addressing the world market place and translators have played a major role in abolishing communication barriers.

And let’s not forget that access to information in your own language is a human right.

posted by Sabine Panneau, April 2011

WeBiText

2011-04-27T18:21:00.001-03:00

WeBiText is a multilingual translation help tool that retrieves translations of words and expressions in pre-defined and/or user-specified Web sites used as bilingual corpora. The user selects the source and the target languages in the list of all the languages supported on all those sites, and then selects a site among those that support the two selected languages.

webitext.com

Check out our Resources page for more tools or subscribe to our newsletter here to receive the information directly into your inbox.

Tip for designers

2011-04-20T13:32:00.001-03:00

Are you having formatting problems while exporting text from a PDF?

AutoUnbreak removes line breaks from formatted (or plain) text input. This is useful if you want to reformat a text document, where lines have been cut short, e.g. when copying text from an Adobe PDF file to a word processor. Thus, the program removes any extraneous line breaks.

It can be downloaded here.

Handy tool for freelancers

2011-04-20T13:21:00.001-03:00

Inquiry Wizard is an online inquiry tracking application as well as a small customer relationship management software that helps freelancers keep track of the inquiries they have received. In addition, it allows freelancers to determine when these inquiries lead to actual projects, and lets them view which customer contact medium (e-mail, phone, etc.) brings in the most inquiries.

Inquiry Wizard is a FREE SaaS solution. All that is required is a high speed internet connection and a web browser.

Inquiry Wizard is a tool that Dagmar Jenner of UNIVERSITAS Austria recommended. She writes:

When is the best -- read: slowest -- time of the year to go on vacation? Who is my best client in terms of translation volume? What is my proposal-to-job ratio? Do most potential clients contact me via e-mail or phone -- and can I fire my fax? All of the above are important questions for which I wanted to find statistically valid answers. What I needed was a tool that could track my inquiries, the price quoted, my potential client's contact information, etc. In short, I was looking for an inquiry management tool cum small customer relationship management tool. Inquiry Wizard is exactly what I need: it was created especially for freelancers (not just translators), it's very easy to use, it's online and it's free. I enter the relevant data every day and the tool automatically generates insightful statistics (which become all the more meaningful the more data you add over time). In addition, it has an export function to export all my potential customers' e-mail addresses, which comes in very handy for sending them newsletters, special offers, etc.

There is no need to download or install anything. All you have to do is register with your e-mail address. The FAQ section features two birds explaining the basics in a cartoon.

¿Cononcen a "mucattu utils"?

2011-04-19T17:04:00.003-03:00

Le recomendamos Mucattu Utils una web de diccionarios y herramientas online ordenados por categorías.
Este sitio es un recopilación de los mejores diccionarios y las mejores herramientas online gratuitas disponibles para traductores e interesados para las combinaciones de idiomas alemán, español e inglés.

http://utils.mucattu.com/index.htm

New Spanish Grammar

2011-04-13T15:41:00.004-03:00

Do you still have queries regarding the latest changes of the Spanish Grammar?

And your are not planning to get the 3800 pages printed version.

Don't worry the Royal Spanish Academy has issued a pre-publication document which gathers all the latest changes.

The Nueva gramática de la lengua española will be published in 3 different versions: The Edición completa (Complete Edition) includes 3,800 pages in two volumes to describe morphology and syntax (published December 4, 2009) plus a third volume of phonetics and phonology and a DVD (early 2010). The Manual edition is a single 750-page volume, which was presented at the 5th Congress of the Spanish Language will be published on April 23, 2010. The Gramática básica (Basic Grammar) is a 250-page pocket reference intended for school use, to be published in late 2010.

The Pre-publication PDF version can be found - here

All our translators at Ocean Translations are well aware of all the changes and are following the latest rules of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Payback time?

2011-04-08T18:08:00.007-03:00

Have you ever thought of giving back some of your translation skills to your community? (whether it is your local community or an international organization)

As a translator, there are many things you can do to help communities around the world and I have listed here some of the places you can check to find the right volunteer assignment for you.

Translators Without Borders is always on the look out for volunteer translators and editors to undertake work on documents for humanitarian organisations such as Doctors Without Borders, AIDES, Handicap International, FIDH and other NGOs, not-for-profit and humanitarian associations fighting for human rights.

Idealist.org is a great website connecting people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. You will be able to find many volunteer translation opportunities for on-site/ off-site translation and interpretation opportunities.

The United Nations Volunteers website is a huge source of volunteering offers – As they say "everyone can make a difference and share their skills, knowledge and ideas from a computer anywhere in the world". Check here for translation volunteer opportunities.

VolunteerMatch strengthens communities by making it easier for good people and good causes to connect. Here is a selection of volunteer translator positions.

And finally check with your local charities, ask around your local community to see if they need some help with translating an official document, completing a grant or fundraising application in another language, sending a newsletter or thank you letter to some international donors.

It may not be the first thing that comes to your mind to occupy your spare time but volunteering is so rewarding that after an experience like this, you will wonder how come you didn't do it before.
Leave us a comment, share with us your experience or let us know of any other ways of helping people and NGOs with your translations and /or interpreting work.

Jornadas Regionales de Traducción en Salta

2011-04-06T10:40:00.003-03:00

2° Jornadas Regionales de Traducción

Seminar organizado por AATI con el apoyo de Google

2011-04-05T16:53:00.001-03:00

Le presentamo un seminar sobre la traducción, localización y tecnologías de Internet en los mercados lingüísticos hispanoamericanos organizado por la Asociación Argentina de Traductores e Intérpretes con el apoyo de Google.

SEMINARIO TRADUCCIÓN Y LOCALIZACIÓN

Oradores invitados: Lic. Lila Petrella, Paula López Cano, M.A., Trad. Gabriela Luna, Lic. Sebastián Noejovich (Gobierno de la Ciudad)

Orador destacado: Sergio Mobilia, M.A. (Google)

SÁBADO 16 DE ABRIL 2011 - DE 9 A 18hs.

Circolo Italiano: Libertad 1264 – C.A.B.A.

¿Todavía no te inscribiste? Hacelo ya: info@aati.org.ar

Globalization and Localization Association to Fund Standards Initiative

2011-03-31T11:30:00.003-03:00

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), the largest international non-profit association within the language and localization industry, is launching a full-time, funded initiative to define standards for the benefit of the entire industry.

Ocean Translations is a member company of GALA

The association has commissioned Arle Lommel, one of the industry’s most respected and experienced standards experts, to manage the initial collaborative planning phase and to establish a framework for long-term execution of standards.