Is There A Faster And Accurate Way to Know Yourself?
Many successful people would tell you that self-awareness is the first key step to get the result that we want in life. Through self-awareness, we know what we actually want deep inside our heart and mind. Henceforth, we will take massive action with great passion and energy to achieve the goals in our life. Many people learn based on their personal experience and feeling to find out what they want actually in life. In a way, a lot of time and effort is wasted. Many more people are still in the midst of finding their true self. Are you one of those people? Recently, I get to know...
read moreLittle did we realise what our greatest asset is
As I was reading the latest issue of Times magazine, I came across an article that talks about “ideas that are changing the world”. One of them would be our jobs being the new assets now. It used to be when we are trying means and ways NOT to work, and making passive income and investments, such that we can have more free time to ourselves. Times when we talk about the new properties whether they are worth investing, or when the latest designer brand or clothing is out and comparing whether who has more collector items. Somehow, it seems like we got more materialistic and everything...
read moreDo You Know the Difference between Translation and Interpretation?
Often, we will get client inquiring for translation service when in fact, they require interpretation service. Then we will spend the next few minutes explaining to them what is the difference between the two terms. So why people get mix up with the 2 terms? People associate translation as “converting” from one language to another language. So anything to do with language conversion, it will mean translation whether it is for document or verbal. Interestingly, interpretation means oral translation. I will usually explain to them that if anything that is to do with writing or...
read moreType of Translation Jobs in Advertising Industry
Do you think that translators only do document or manual translation? Well, think again… our job can be fun and challenging at times. Some of our clients come from the Advertising industry. Most of the times, they do not want direct translation. They would prefer copywriting. This means that our translator would need to write in a creative style and still capture the essence of the whole copy. Yes, the skill level needed for such job is higher. Having to say that, if you have great passion for language semantics, I believe it would not be too difficult to translate into a...
read moreWhat Is Translation?
According to Wikipedia, the action of interpretation of the meaning of a text, and subsequent production of an equivalent text, also called a translation, that communicates the same message in another language. The text to be translated is called the source text, and the language it is to be translated into is called the target language. As a translator, you have to be a language expert in both the source and the target language, in order to understand fully what you need to translate, and what you have translated. Though there are different expressions to the same word, how you manage to...
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