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Your voucher entitles you to 1000 words of free translation. This can be used for any purpose, and you can use it on a larger project to reduce the overall cost. The possibilities are endless: brochures…websites…letters…emails…blog posts… Professional proofreading by a second native translator is included. This offer is available for: English into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and also into English from any of these languages. Additional Terms: Voucher is valid for one language only. Voucher is valid for one business order only. Any credit not spent will then expire. Vouchers are valid until 31 August 2016.

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Summer sale!

20% Off Orders at Web-Translations! For a limited time only, we are offering 20% off all translation projects. If you’ve been thinking about translating any type of file, document or web content, get in touch with us today for a free, no-obligation quotation! What can we offer you? • A Dedicated Project Manager – one point of contact • CMS Expertise (EPiServer, WordPress, OpenCms, Drupal… & more) • Preferential translation rates • Flexible payment terms We’ve got a great track record working for clients in a wide range of industries. Please visit our Portfolio for further details. Get in touch with our experienced team and find out what we could do for you.

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Is it a pain parisien or a baguette?

Using little-known foreign words in advertising can make a product appeal to a certain clientele who understands the word or at least associates it with a particular culture. It can distinguish the brand as global and trend-setting. Languages incorporate ‘foreign words’ all the time. At first, the use of a new word may be only between speakers of the source language who know the word, but at some point they begin to use the word with those to whom the word was not previously known. To these speakers the word may sound ‘foreign’. At this stage, when most speakers do not know the word and if they hear it think it is from another language, the word can be called a foreign word. There are many foreign words and phrases used in English such as bon vivant (French) and Schadenfreude (German), as well as many types of foreign food, such as pain parisien (French).

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Meet the Team – Francesca Riley

Hi everyone, I have recently joined the Web-Translations team as a Project Coordinator, having just finished a Masters in Applied Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. During my Masters I particularly enjoyed the modules relating to CAT tools and Machine Translation, and it was in these fields that I focused a lot of my time. Working as part of a PM team during our CAT module’s team projects lead to an interest in this part of the translation industry, so the vacancy I found at Web-Translations seemed an ideal starting point for my career.

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Translator Interview | Birgit

How’s 2014 treating you so far? Very nicely thank you. I started the year by working away from home, I rented a house in the UK to get a change of scenery, and it’s turned out to be quite busy, so I haven’t seen as much as I had planned. But it’s still nice to get to work in a different environment, which I find quite inspiring. What are your goals for the coming year? I want to travel a lot this year, so my trusted laptop and a stable internet connection is all I need. I can continue working while on the road.

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