It was a known fact already to Mark Twain; he wrote about it in his poignant essay The Awful German Language. And as if that were not already enough, we now have another problem: gender-inclusive language – called gendern in German. To make women more visible, numerous media outlets and newspapers have stopped using the […]
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We keep getting asked the same question: Is it possible to work with an interpreter’s booth during arbitration hearings in order to save time? After all, consecutive interpreting of a witness takes more than double the amount of time. And time, as we all know, is money. However, experience has taught us that speeding up
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In January, we started the third round of our forest conservation project and once again donated 10% of our revenue to Wohlleben’s Forest Academy. Just as in the last couple of years, we have leased a plot of forest land for the next 50 years. In return, the owner pledges to let the forest grow
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Maybe you still remember – in the past two years, Schleicher Sprachservice’s January donations have gone to a forest conservation project protecting beech forests. Due to a very lively interest in donating for the project, the entire forest area available for it is now completely protected. However, there are still the “young savages”. These are
Interpreter, translator, language mediator, integration mediator, language and culture mediator… All of these terms are used when it comes to language transmission. But what is exactly the difference between these things? The answer is quite easy: While translators convey written texts from one language to another, interpreters communicate the spoken word. However, not all languages
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Transcreations are translations with an added value, namely SEO optimisation. Transcreation is a two-step process. First, a text is translated from one language to another. Then, it is prepared in such a way that search engines find it on the netoptimally. The goal is to achieve a high ranking in the search results. While preparing transcreative
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The surprising origin of OK. Germans love to complain about their language being flooded with anglicisms – on the other hand, SPA and compliance simply sound better and more technical than Aktienkaufvertrag or Einhaltung von geltenden Rechtsnormen. Nowadays Germans we even seem to prefer saying “Deal” at court for a settlement, instead of Vergleich or
We visited the Wohlleben forest conservation project – not exactly the area that Schleicher Sprachservice leased, but not far from it. There, we made use of the opportunity to spend a night in the forest – without a tent, of course. We were only allowed a sleeping bag and sleeping mat. And yes, of course,
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Transcreations are translations with a certain added value, namely SEO optimisation. Transcreation is a two-step process. First, a text is translated from one language to another. Then, it is prepared in such a way that search engines find it on the net optimally. The goal is to achieve a high ranking in the search results.
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And nothing will happen for another 50 years. As we do every year, we at Schleicher Sprachservice are donating 10% of our January revenue for a good cause. Just as last year, our January donation is going to the forest conservation project by Wohlleben’s Forest Academy. For this, we have once again made a one-off
