http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog Thoughts, opinions and observations about Spanish translation services and language based business solutions Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:47:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whenever a prospective client has a need for Spanish translation services, we generally get a call and there are a few standard questions that people will ask. How much does it cost? How soon can we get it? And what are the qualifications of your translators? There are sometimes other ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/07/02/spanish-sentences-translation/ Often when our company takes on translation projects from Spanish to English it's for legal documents of one sort or another. Sometimes the legal documents govern a joint venture between US and Latin American companies. Sometimes it's business that's originated in the past, or it may be business associated with ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/13/translation-from-spanish-to-english/ If all that's needed is the translation of a sentence or two in Spanish then the options that exist are pretty much consulting a bilingual acquaintance or friend, using an in-house translator, or trying one of the free online tools that exist. The Google language tool that can be accessed ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/09/spanish-sentence-translation/ We're told there is an elderly man in Texas that lives somewhere near the US-Mexican border who provides free translation from Spanish to English. His name is Pedro Lopez and he's provided these free translation services for many years. Mr. Lopez is reportedly a very generous man and is also known for ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/08/free-translation-from-spanish-to-english/ In need of Spanish word translation? Consult an English-Spanish dictionary. Or, browse any of the numerous online resources. However, the correct translation of individuals words without context may not be unambiguous. A complete sentence or other context reference will usually be needed. "Too many notes, Mozart", the famous complaint of Emperor ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/07/spanish-word-translation/ The phrase 'translation in Spanish' is somewhat ambiguous and could mean several things. For starers it's not clear from this reference out of context whether the Spanish language is the source or target language. The phrase in isolation does not clearly infer English-to-Spanish or Spanish-to-English translation services. It could be ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/06/translation-in-spanish/ Without a doubt the majority of our translation work is in taking English language text and translating it into Spanish. Sometimes the target Spanish language version is intended for the US Hispanic population, other times more for Mexico, and then at other time for Latin America as a whole. In each ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/05/spanish-translation-to-english/ If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/04/if-by-rudyard-kipling/ It's not often we can get services of value for free, though with English-Spanish translation and other language combinations, there are a few tools around online that might be helpful. Free online tools should in no way be considered as replacements for skilled human linguists (in my opinion), though these ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/03/free-english-spanish-translation/ One thing about having a blog is that you have to ... well ... blog. Yes blog is one of those words that is both a noun and a verb. I remember a few years back when I first heard the word blog (web + log). I didn't really care ... http://www.affinityspanish.com/spanishtranslationbusinessblog/2008/05/02/free-spanish-translation-email/