eCPD Webinar – Learn to love translation agencies!
Posted on3 September 2013
Clare Suttie, director at Atlas Translations, ran a webinar in August in partnership with eCPD Webinars. eCPD offers high-quality online training and online webinars to help translators, interpreters and...
24/7 Telephone Interpreting Travelling Adventure – Part 1
Posted on14 August 2013
Meet John and Cait. They have embarked on a travelling adventure, starting in England and ending up (hopefully) in China. Over the course of their journey they will come...
Can I have my translation tomorrow?
Posted on13 August 2013
Anna Davies is the Manager at Atlas Translations, and has been with us since 2004. As you can imagine, she’s dealt with a lot of work in that time!...
Why do we get confused about the Chinese language?
Posted on6 August 2013
Are you confused about the “different types” of Chinese? Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese? Too complicated? Let’s simplify things… Simplified Chinese VS Traditional Chinese: These two...
Quirky Foreign Words the English Language is Missing!
Posted on5 June 2013
Ever felt your waistband tighten after raiding the fridge at the end of an overly stressful day at work? That’ll be a case of ‘grief bacon’ (or kummerspeck), as...
Dying Languages
Posted on13 February 2013
In today’s internationally connected world, a chief concern for many language enthusiasts is the extinction of certain languages and dialects. In 2005, Ethnologue: Languages of the World listed 6,909...
Atlas Open Day 2012
Posted on6 December 2012
Tuesday 27th November 2012 was another Atlas Open Day 2012 – when we invite both new and experienced linguists to join us for the day with the purpose of getting...
Interpreting politics – the importance of language
Posted on27 September 2012
There’s no doubt that political jargon is often hard to decipher, so imagine dedicating a career to it –that’s what you’d be doing if you were part of the...
Google Translate
Posted on20 September 2012
The Limitations of Google Translate The continual development of Machine Translation can be a cause for concern amongst ranks in the translation industry. After all, the mechanisation process which...
9 mistakes that freelancers make
Posted on13 September 2012
From talking to our freelance translators we have come across 9 mistakes that freelancers often make. Here we outline them with some advice so that you don’t fall into...
