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Posted on9 October 2012

On the 16th October, Paul Small, Mark Bunting, Paul Browning, Richard March, Paul Rosenthal, Sam Skuce and Karen Zammit will embark on a cycle ride of 1200KM from St Albans...

Posted on3 October 2012

Over to one of our amazing work placement students Magda, on the subject of false friends… in language terms, false friends are pairs of words or phrases in two...

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...

Posted on12 September 2012

This month at Atlas we have had an influx of Japanese translations. As a result of this, we decided to find out a bit more about what the Japanese...

Posted on27 August 2012

The La Tomatina festival is held on the last Wednesday of August every year the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. This festival is where people throw...

Posted on31 July 2012

Unlike the rest of the team at Atlas I am very superstitious. When one of our Chinese translators found this out, they told me about this traditional Chinese festival...

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