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It is no exaggeration to say that knowing a second language, a foreign language, is more significant and perhaps more useful that it has even been in the history of humankind.

The world’s largest furniture retailer IKEA caused controversy this week: the pillow case Gosa Raps translates into English ‘cuddle rape’ when using Google Translate.

Your international marketing campaign begins with laying your sites on new target markets for your product.

At TranslateMedia, the confidentiality of your documents is top priority. Our Secure Translation Tool houses sensitive documents in a highly secure online translation environment and eliminates downloads.

This articles explains the concept of transcreation, using an example video of the comedian Doc Brown.

The famous British science fiction television programme Doctor Who has been dubbed into many languages, for example German, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Imagine being the last person of your people to speak your language… With no possibility to pass on the wisdom of your ancestors, the cultural heritage, your way of expressing your love, your humour, your life.

Three musicians translated the lyrics of Will Smith’s well known song ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ from English into the 64 languages that are currently supported by Google’s machine translation and then translated it back into English.

TranslateMedia provides top tips for better showcasing your skills as a freelance translator.

Global business is tough to manage. One part that needs careful consideration is the localisation of marketing, promotional, and brand-related content. Marketing translation mistakes can result in your product or service no being well received in new markets.

As the Internet is making global markets more accessible for growing firms, the need for skilled localization managers is becoming increasingly paramount. With direct tr...

LinkedIn has recently announced the launching of a Japanese language version of its professional social networking website.

How to get the most from your Multilingual PPC campaigns. Conducting a multilingual pay per click (PPC) campaign can be an excellent way to break into international markets.

We're currently halfway through our new website design and launch and we have loaded a test version onto www.translatemedia.co.uk. The next part of the project is making...

Interview with Otmar Lichtenwörther. Otmar is a key translator for TranslateMedia, - translating his 1000th job for the company in 2012.

There was buzz all over the web a couple of weeks ago after Google’s reported advances in the area of Machine Translation were reported in the New York Post. ...