Why are Transcription Services Important for Many Businesses?

What is business transcription? Business transcription is a simple way of describing the variety of ways that transcription can and does help businesses function. Transcription is the conversion of speech into text. It may be direct, i.e. the conversion takes place just as someone speaks, or can be done later after a recording of the […]

A Simple Guide to Choosing a Subtitling and Captioning Service

Subtitling and captioning are not quite the same thing but are related when in the context of being used in videos. It is important to choose a professional subtitling service when your video is to be released in places where people do not speak the same language as those in the film script or are […]

10 Important Facts About the Chinese Language

China has become one of the most important nations in the world, economically and politically. Its manufactured goods provide a large percentage of the world’s consumer needs and much of the developed world’s economy is reliant on a buoyant Chinese economy. For this reason, the Chinese language, called Mandarin, has become one of the most […]

What You Need to Know About Diplomatic Passports in Australia

What is a diplomatic passport? Most of us ordinary mortals will never hold or even see a diplomatic passport unless employed as an immigration official at a border. There is no choice you can make about having an ordinary or a diplomatic passport. All passports are issued by individual national governments, including diplomatic passports. However, […]

The Benefits of Multilingual Customer Support

What is meant by customer support? Most manufacturers around the world these days have learned that their products can’t just be distributed and sold without any backup customer support. In fact, products are often judged on just how good a company’s customer support is. Until relatively recently, most customer support involved taking a product back […]

What Are Medical Reports and Why Do They Need to be Translated?

What are medical reports? Medical reports are hugely important, so if there is a need to provide them in a country other than the one where they were issued and where the official language is different, then medical report translation will be needed. Medical reports are made up of individual medical records as well as […]

Important Documents That Need Certified Translation Through A Professional Translator

What is a certified translation? A certified translation is a confirmation that a translation which has been completed is an accurate version of the original. Each country has different rules about what qualifies as a certified translation, so if you have been asked to provide a translation by a government immigration department, an employer or […]

How Do Business Email Translations Improve Marketing?

There is a lot of diversity available today for advertising, but emails still stand out as one of the most successful means of spreading a marketing message about a product. To further increase the value of emails more businesses are turning to email translations to improve the success of their email campaigns. For a business, […]

Glocalisation: Meaning, Examples and Benefits

Glocalisation history Glocalisation took place several decades ago when businesses decided it was time to enter overseas markets to grow their business. However, at the start international businesses found it hard to follow another country’s business rules and regulations. Many English speaking businesses seriously believed that doing business in English was sufficient. They soon discovered […]

Careers and Jobs For Bilingual And Multilingual Translators in Australia

Australia is a multicultural society, speaking 300 separate languages. One in five Australians (21 per cent) speak a language other than English at home. In a globalised world, colleagues, clients, customers and stakeholders do not always speak one language. This is why there is such a great demand for bilingual and multilingual translators in Australia.