The email that just arrived only says "FYI"? The restricted area is only for "VIPs"?! On Fridays, you stumble across "TGIF" on Instagram a dozen times ... In our everyday life we come across many abbreviations, which are often a short form of English terms or statements.
To help you understand some of the most important English abbreviations, we have compiled a list, which includes language commonly used by young people as well as important expressions from the business world.
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The translation process and the linguistic and cultural nuances that need to be taken into account are very different according to the sector of activity (legal, medical, financial, industrial etc.) This is one of the reasons why machine translation is not possible. Only a specialist professional translator can produce a reliable translation. With Optilingua, you benefit from all the advantages of human translation: sector expertise, knowledge of sector-specific standards, and final content that is adapted to the culture of the target audience.
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Strictly speaking, translation is not usually thought of, as a "creative" profession. However, the translation process undoubtedly requires an element of creativity, particularly with regards to certain types of content.
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To meet an unexpected requirement, a last-minute request or an unforeseen event, an urgent translation of a document on the same day is sometimes needed. In addition to finding a translator who is able to quickly respond to your request, you need to be assured that the translator you use is professional and skilled and will provide you with a quality service.
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Invoices and receipts have been issued ever since the invention of writing and are intended to provide a certain degree of legal assurance to both the invoicing party and the recipient when it comes to services and payments. The common paper invoice has in the meantime been joined by those issued electronically, which are now to become mandatory for authorities throughout the EU.
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Covid-19 (Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus disease 2019) is a virus that first appeared in China in 2019. The virus belongs to the strain of coronaviruses, which usually infect certain mammals or birds and normally only cause mild colds in humans. However, viruses can change (mutate) and adapt to new conditions. In the case of normal influenza viruses, experts are always assessing future mutations and developing vaccines before the start of the new influenza season to combat the most likely changes.
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City trips are popular traditional short breaks, with more and more travellers opting for a city trip especially in spring and early summer. Various developments in recent years have led to a real boom, with Airbnb providing inexpensive accommodation in metropolitan centres and cheap flights allowing for a laid-back and pleasurable journey. The number of overnight stays in major cities clearly shows which cities are particularly popular.
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Companies looking to expand past their own shores need to invest in professional translation services.
Their role is a crucial one and whilst there may seemingly be more cost-effective options such as free translation software, this is a poor economic choice to make due to their lack of accuracy and poor quality of output.
Here are four reasons you should invest in a professional translation service company:
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Big news can go viral in minutes. News agencies which receive and distribute breaking stories can communicate important events across the world at such speeds that those who aren’t able to have their press releases read and acted upon due to language barriers are quickly going to find they are failing to hit the headlines and in turn falling behind in the battle for column inches.
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Commercial translations require specialist translators with knowledge of sector terminology used in a business environment.
For any company's reputation and image, it is essential for its communication to be efficient, whatever the language. Optilingua has the necessary resources at its disposal to ensure professional and efficient commercial translations.
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Professional Translation Services in Asian Languages
Professional, specialized Asian translators (e.g. translating into Chinese, Japanese, etc.) will have no problems understanding Asian character sets and languages. First, a short introduction into “the far east”: Asia is a huge continent and most people currently alive live there – more than 4 billion, meaning 60 per-cent of the entire population of the planet. In Asia’s 47 countries, languages belonging to around 19 language families are spoken there.
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