The UK's majority vote of 51.9% to leave against 48.1% to remain in the EU was a great shock to many British citizens. Especially those who think that being in the EU is a necessary evil. Surviving Brexit is going to be quite a challenge. It is true that no one likes...
Iolante is in the business of translating documents for business as well as private clients. The majority of our business clientele are SMEs. Currently, most of these clients are UK-based. Leaving the EU will have many consequences. With the UK being an EU member...
The last weekend edition of the Guardian (4 June 2016) "The knives are out" featured an article about artificial intelligence. Leo Benedictus discusses how artificial intelligence has improved in recent years. It looks into four areas where artificial intelligence has...
Dear… I often translate marketing texts. Sometimes clients send me documents with nothing but “Dear…” in the address line at the beginning of a letter or email. Leaving the name blank for later insertion. In theory this should be easy to translate, in reality, it’s...
Why low prices to "break into the market" are not a good idea Are you in the process of starting up as a freelance translator? Are you under pressure to pay the bills? Then for you there is a big temptation underprice your services and sell yourself well below current...
Talk to any translator and they are likely to agree wholeheartedly that translation prices are often too low to be sustainable for someone based in the UK. But why? There are hundreds of reasons for the low value that is put on translation jobs. Let's just have a look...
Recently a client asked me to edit a previously supplied translation. After a short email exchange, it became clear that Google Translate had produced the translation submitted for proofreading. No human translator had been engaged. I am a professional translator who...
I know you spammers have to make a living somehow, but does that have to involve me? We have a contact form on our website. The form tries to keep spammers out as much as possible. Yet still they come. No matter what trick we use to keep you lot out, you keep finding...
We all think we know what proofreading is For first-class quality control, when someone writes an article, a proofreader goes through the document. Proofreaders make sure the text is free from typing errors and grammatical mistakes. They should also check that there...
It's a numbers game with Google.mum I have ranted before about Google not being willing to spit out search results for terms like "Iolante", on the basis that it considers the spelling incorrect. (See my earlier blog post on "Google.mum".) When asking Google to search...
Professionally qualified German translator into English and English into German, offering first class translation services for commercial, industrial, governmental and private clients.