Caspar Salmon, a film writer based in London, wrote and published the following article in The Guardian. In it, he explains how making films in another language can be very risky. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content.  Making films in another language is always a risk […]

Image: Shutterstock/Iryna Kalamurza David Farley wrote and published the following report in the Travel section of the BBC. In it, he explains how you cannot translate word-for-word some German terms used to convey the idea that one yearns to travel. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. […]

Image: Kymelya Sar BBC News published the following report in which the author, Dr Humera Iqbal, a lecturer in psychology at University College London, describes how children are translating for their parents when they do not speak the local language. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. […]

Image: istockphoto.com – eli_asenova Lindsay Patterson is a freelance science writer based in Barcelona, and creator and producer of Tumble Science Podcast for Kids. She published the following article in The New York Times Parenting. In it, she examines how quickly children can learn a new language. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make […]

Mark Z. Barabak covers state and national politics for the Los Angeles Times. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and published the following report on how new Covid-19-related terms are changing the English language as we knew it. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following […]

Gothamist, a website about New York City news, arts and events, and food, recently published the following article. The authors, Phoebe Taylor Vuolo, Aurora Ferrer and Victoria Cheng, explain why court interpretation has become so much more difficult due to the increased use of video teleconferencing. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations […]

Christopher Bergland is a world-class endurance athlete, coach, author, and public health advocate. He wrote the following article, which was published in Psychology Today. In his article Christopher explains why left-handers use both sides of the brain for language, more than right-handers. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the […]

In the following post, Xinxing Gu, Product Manager for Google Translate, describes the new translation features of Google Translate’s camera. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. Google Translate allows you to explore unfamiliar lands, communicate in different languages, and make connections that would be otherwise impossible. […]

The BBC recently published a series of articles on embarrassing translation errors. Below is a special report of Welsh translation gaffes. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the following content. Asda offers ‘free alcohol’ in wrong Welsh language translation A sign in Cwmbran’s Asda for the alcohol-free section was […]

Gino Diño, Content strategy expert and Online Editor for Slator, wrote the following article in which he explains how recent research shows just how much the job of an interpreter is less about verbatim translation and more about juggling cognitively demanding tasks. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to the […]