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Best Practices: How To Localize Your Digital Financial Services
Technology developments, changing consumer behaviours, the extra convenience facilitated by challenger apps like Revolut, Monzo or Nubank generated not only...
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The Best Words That Shakespeare Invented
Ever wondered why William Shakespeare is the greatest inventor of all time? He invented the English language. Almost. Few people...
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Pokémon Part 02 – The Troubles of Localizing the Games
Translating Japanese games for English-speaking gamers isn’t a new endeavour. Some of today’s most significant, memorable and beloved adventures in...
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Pokémon Part 01 – The Meanings of Pokémon’s Names in Various Languages
Pokémon has been around for much longer than you think. The first generation of Pokémon games was released in 1996,...
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Some of the Most Humorous Video Game Translations
Video game translations are meant to convert a video game’s script from one language to another while paying attention to...
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Translating Comic Books – Borderless Storytelling
With the current globalization of comics, there is an increased demand for countries to translate their local comics to other...
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Alphabets – A Journey Through Written Communication
The modern-day Latin alphabet sits among the other 293 writing systems currently used in our world today. Each one is...
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The Grind of Localizing Taglines & Slogans
A slogan is the first thing that prospects associate your brand with. If you think translating “a sentence” or “a...
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What Are the Factors Determining the Cost of Translation?
When searching around for the best translation service, there are a number of factors you need to consider before you...
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Should Pidgin English Be Classed As an Official Language?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “Pidgin” as a language mixing lexical, grammatical, and phonematic features of two or more languages,...
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Disney: An APAC Localization Case Study
Disney, a name that enchanted the childhood of generations, continues to amaze the showbiz world with its incredible ability to...
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How Localization Helped Rebuild South Africa
South Africa, a country torn by apartheid, has phoenixed over the last decade as a market worth exploring. In this...
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Software Localization Do’s and Don’ts
We live in the digital era. With AI, web, mobile apps, and DApps becoming almost indispensable to our daily life,...
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Chinese Marketing Translation: How to Do It Right
If there is one market that poses the greatest challenges to translation and localization, it is China. When marketing to...
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Crypto Translation, a New Type of Financial Translation?
Planning on starting your very own crypto project? Or maybe you’ve just ICO-ed or launched your first NFT and you...
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Why Is Legal Translation Important?
Legal translation is perhaps one of the most challenging and rewarding (financially and professionally) translation fields. In today’s globalization context,...
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The 5 Best Translation Apps in 2022
As the world begins to recover from the pandemic, international travel is now firmly back on the agenda for many...
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Discovering the Top French Phrases Used in English
It is the world’s most commonly spoken language, but did you know that nearly 30% of all the words in...
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