There is a good number of specific software applications and plug-ins for the translators world, as for any other field, which help a lot in our job so as to give a better service to our clients. These packages are not softwares that "do translation", i.e. machine translators, they are aids which help a professional translator to do better his work.

Anaphraseus (http://anaphraseus.sourceforge.net/) is a Translation Memory, i.e. a plug-in that keeps track of the sentences that you have translated before. Therefore, when the same sentence appears again or another sentence appears which is very similar to any other sentence you have translated before, it reminds you about it. Then, you are free to decide whether to use the same translation, modify it or do a completely new translation for that sentence.

A few weeks ago I finished translating a 67,000+ word book from English to Spanish. It was a book written by Mr. John C. Iannone about his historic and scientific research about the Shroud of Turin.

This project was a great experience translating this kind of material, i.e. material with such in-depth terminology in so many fields at the same time: medicine, botany, history, religion...

Yes, they really are free translations of documents English-Spanish. And no, we haven't gone mad and there is no catch. It is Christmas season and we thought that this could be a nice gift for many people who are in need of translations. Of course, it is also true that through doing this more people will get to know us, and will get to know the great quality we offer in our service of translation of documents. Send your document now to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Despite being used interchangeably, interpretation and translation are not synonymous, but refer, respectively, to the spoken and written transference of meaning between two languages. Interpreting occurs in real time, in the presence — physical, televised, or telephonic — of the parties for whom the interpreter renders an interpretation. Translation is the transference of meaning from text to text (written or recorded), with the translator having time and access to resources (dictionaries, glossaries, etc.) to produce a faithful, true, and accurate document or verbal artifact.

Language interpretation is the practice of facilitating oral and sign-language communication, either simultaneously or consecutively, between two or more users of different languages. Functionally, interpreting and interpretation are both descriptive words for this process.

A competent translator shows several attributes:

Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language. The text to be translated is called the source text, and the language that it is to be translated into is called the target language; the final product is sometimes called the target text.

Translation, when practiced by relatively bilingual individuals but especially when by persons with limited proficiency in one or both languages, involves a risk of spilling-over of idioms and usages from the source language into the target language. On the other hand, inter-linguistic spillages have also served the useful purpose of importing calques and loanwords from a source language into a target language that had previously lacked a concept or a convenient expression for the concept. Translators and interpreters, professional as well as amateur, have thus played an important role in the evolution of languages and cultures.