Category: Blog
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 »
A Game of Sounds
19th August 2016
If you’re looking to binge watch Game of Thrones over your summer holiday, be warned, this blog post contains some spoilers! If you’re still here and have seen the latest season, then you’ll know how one of the more intriguing characters got their name, as well as the events that led up to the creation… Read more »
Is my password still the best password?
5th August 2016
At Foreign Tongues Translation we take security very seriously. NDAs, data security, including translation project files, client translation glossaries, linguist details, as well as the physical security of our translation file servers are paramount – as it should be! But security is only as strong as its weakest link, so what about user passwords and… Read more »
