For years, technology has made our industry worry about the impact of automated Free Translation services. But how free are free translations really and where are we to gain from free translations? If the idea is that nothing comes for free, then where are the hidden...
Documents that we receive for translation are rarely optimized for the translation workflow. The goal of a translation preparation process is to add value by eliminating waste further down the process: Translation Process The translation process can be negatively...
Sign language interpreting and Foreign language interpreting are two distinct professions with the same goal of mediating communication between two or more parties with different languages. Both deal with language; one spoken and one signed. Both contrive importance...
In our work with healthcare translations and health literacy communications in English, we consume a lot of research on what moves the patient to better outcomes and how we can build trust and respect for patients to improve healthcare. A recent Robert Wood Johnson...
How well are we doing with cultural competence in healthcare communications? Increasingly, more diverse health populations complicates healthcare marketing and education efforts. We look at programs like open enrollment, pharmacy benefit communications, disease state...
Whenever we are asked about who is doing our translations, the common expectation is that either we do the work “in-house” or we just “send it out” to “a translator.” However, the translator community, at least within Language...
