Category: Blog
Foreign Tongues Christmas Draw – 2016 – Week 3
8th December 2016
The first name has been pulled from the hat for week 1, but there’s still time to enter this week’s draw. Request a quote before midnight on Sunday, the 11th, to be included. The final week starts from Monday, the 12th, so there’s still plenty of time to enter, with the chance to win a… Read more »
Foreign Tongues Christmas Draw – 2016 – Week 2
1st December 2016
With the winner of the first week’s draw being pulled on Monday, the 5th of December, we’re giving a sneak peek on the next week’s prize – Martin Miller’s Gin Westbourne Strength – winner of the World Gin Awards 2016 Martin says: “With my 40% ABV (80 Proof), you get a lovely strong citrus nose… Read more »
MRS Awards 2016 – Best Agency Sponsor
1st December 2016
Another year has flown by and the MRS Awards are just around the corner – on Monday in fact!!! Foreign Tongues is honoured, once again, to be the proud sponsor of the MRS Best Agency Awards. We wish all of the finalists, as well as everyone taking part in this year’s event, all the very… Read more »
Foreign Tongues Christmas Draw – 2016
23rd November 2016
The Foreign Tongues annual ‘Christmas Spirit’ prize draw is about to start and gives you the chance, over the coming three weeks, to be one of the lucky winners! To enter: simply request The 20 Minute Quote for your next translation project and we’ll put your name in to the hat. Foreign Tongues run the… Read more »
MRS Awards 2016
11th November 2016
Once again, Foreign Tongues Translation are honoured to sponsor the MRS Awards 2016 Best Agency categories. Foreign Tongues will present the awards for Best Agency with a turnover above £20million and Best Agency with a turnover below £20million on December the 5th, at the prestigious Supernova, in Central London. The Awards finalists are, as follows:-… Read more »
Video Game Translation – How Bad Is It?
30th October 2016
Recently, we discussed how professional translation and localisation increases sales, but what about bad translation? While pictures of bad menu translations get shared across social media and no doubt raise a few smiles, what happens when the translation and localisation is so bad, it becomes unrecognisable when compared to the source material? It’s hard to… Read more »
Translation IS Marketing
14th October 2016
Companies should consider translation as part of their marketing strategy. Not only does it make sense to translate documentation for foreign territories, in order to reach new markets, quality translation helps to convey the company’s unique brand guidelines and identity. A large part of any organisation’s budget is spent on marketing and many companies have… Read more »
A Neural Network for Machine Translation
30th September 2016
It would seem that not a week goes by without Google announcing yet another breakthrough in machine translation. A breakthrough that will, this time for sure, put human translators out of business. The announcement, this week, is Google’s Neural Network for Machine Translation, which states that “Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT), […] utilizes state-of-the-art… Read more »
Google Translate strikes again
16th September 2016
“Google Translate cannot be used as a complete translation tool. That expectation is misguided.” While the above quote might be something you would expect a translation company, such as Foreign Tongues, to say, it might come as a surprise to learn that it was actually spoken by Te Taka Keegan – a Waikato University senior… Read more »
Working for free
2nd September 2016
Translation services have become the latest sector to fall victim to the ‘work for free’ model, thanks to Google Crowdsource. Google Crowdsource is an app that asks users to perform brief tasks that will help improve the quality of Google services like Maps, translation, image transcription, and more. Google Crowdsource asks what languages people are… Read more »
