Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Successful Translator?
Recently, I just watch this movie “Slumdog Millionaire”. It is a very compelling movie illustrating a man’s journey in finding his own dreams, true love and destiny. It strikes a deep thought for me. We will never know our true purpose until we step out and start this self-discovery journey. We just gonna keep on believing and taking actions towards our dream. When I first joined my friend’s translation company, a lot of my people (even my family members) start to question me. Are you making the right move? What if the situation does not turn out the way that you...
read moreHuman vs Machine Translation – Which is better?
Machine Translation (MT) is generally understood as the process in which a “machine” (specificaly a computer program or software) is substituting words and phrases in one langauge to another. But if you do understand a little bit of the language in which you have translated your document into, you will quickly notice the translation problems. And the end result is definitely not what you have desired and clearly not of publishable quality. MT Softwares consist of dictionaries and algorithms to compose a sentence according to grammar rules of a language. The inherent difficulty...
read moreWhy are Native Translators preferred?
Some may wonder why native translators are most preferred. Well, not only do they know the culture of their country and hence able to bring out the meaning of the translated text for the people to understand, they also understand the language of what they are translating. Because if they don’t, this is what will most probably happen… httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
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