March 4 is the day to celebrate grammar in the US. It was established in 2008 by Martha Brockenbrough, author of Things that Make Us and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. This date was chosen particularly because it is also an...
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Today is International Mother Language Day! No matter how many languages you learn, you’ll always have only one mother language, which is such a fascinating thought. A mother language is like your identity. My mother language is Arabic, and I’d love to know what your mother language...
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you lie about your skills to land a job, a potential employer will most likely discover that, and there goes your credibility. This is simply not a smart strategy. A recent example is when I had an Arabic to...
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Like in any culture, there are different sayings that can be used in different situations encountered in our daily lives. Probably all languages have equivalents of certain sayings that are used in similar situations in different cultures. This blog post sheds the light on some...
Like in any culture, there are...
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This is a shout out to all the translators who work in-house! As a freelancer, whenever I have field work, translation or interpretation, I always come back home like I was beaten! My entire body would be sore. When you get used to working from the...
This is a shout out to all the...
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You know that awkward moment when you're torn between charging a fair rate for a very difficult translation job or not charging at all because the client happens to be a friend of yours and you're doing them a favor? Yes, I think we’ve all...
You know that awkward moment w...
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Sending Christmas and New Year e-cards to all your clients should be a very strategic marketing step. First, you remind old clients of yourself and second, you remind new clients why it is a pleasure to work with you. Remember to keep your season’s greetings formal...
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Remember last year's infamous 50,000 LBP banknote that BDL wanted to roll out on Lebanon's 70th Independence Day? It was so hideous that we forgot about it in a flash (because, let's be honest, it hurt our eyes to look at it!). Well, pictures of a...
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Do not offer a free word-count service for potential clients who are not even sure if they will be giving you the job or not. Instead, give them your rate per word and let them handle the word-count and eventually how much the project would...
Do not offer a free word-count...
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Said Akl, the greatest modern poet Lebanon has ever known, passed away at the age of 102. Said Akl (July 4, 1912 – November 28, 2014) was known for nationalism and for stressing the fact that the Lebanese language is independent from the Arabic language, as...
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It’s been a few weeks since Poppins, the local breakfast cereal company, launched its new range of cereal bars with fruit pieces, adequately called “Fruity Bites”, accompanied by a huge online and offline ad campaign to promote the new bars. Let me start by stating that...
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The World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse is to be commemorated every 19 November in synergy with the anniversary of the International Day for the rights of the child (20 November). The World Day aims to be a rallying point around the issue of child...
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They say ignorance is bliss. For us translators, I believe it’s good that some clients do not fully understand how we work and how we go about producing professional translations and managing our business. There are, however, 3 major things which I hope all clients would...
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A translator's job is a pretty serious one, but that doesn't mean we don't know how to have fun! If you can come up with other language and translation memes, you can send them to info@transpremium.com and I can make it a series! ...
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Ah, the power of a correctly punctuated sentence! When I wrote a blog post about language and translator jokes, I was asked to make it into a series. There are so many language related jokes, and this post is dedicated to punctuation jokes that serve as...
Ah, the power of a correctly p...
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