Take care to avoid mediocre quality in translation

A study published this week by the European Union reveals that one of the problems in the translation sector is the fact that there are almost no barriers to entry into the profession.  As a result, under-qualified and unscrupulous individuals are able to enter the market, offering significantly lower prices and mediocre quality.

The new EN 15038 certification standard, which Multilingues has implemented in full, is becoming increasingly common across Europe, but the standard itself only partially addresses the issue of quality. The report thus draws attention to one of the issues that companies must take into account, which is the need to take care with the services they contract in order to avoid acquiring poor quality products.

Workshops

In our efforts towards continuous improvement, we encourage our translators and revisers to attend specialised translation and revision workshops. During the month of October, one of our revisers attended a workshop on legal translation delivered by specialists in the field.

Influenza A: Facts and Myths

In the current information age, there is no subject that your average citizen cannot become informed about.  You need only search the internet, watch television news broadcasts or exchange information with family and friends. Although this is a positive thing, it is not uncommon for data to become confused and for us to hear incorrect or incomplete information, taking it to be true. The problem is that we are supplied with so much information that we end up with a false awareness of certain issues. Fear, of course, helps us to unconsciously select only what concerns us, what we think is most useful to our survival.

The H1N1 pandemic is symptomatic of this phenomenon. Perhaps if official bodies did not merely issue endless instructions, but rather explained the practical sense behind them, there would have been less confusion.