2015-04-27 / Elaine Potvin Let’s start with the good news: rest assured, a translator who asks questions is usually a good one. He or she cares about your image and wants to make sure you get your message across. Translators don’t generally have questions about a text because they are unfamiliar with the text’s language…
2015-10-01 / Elaine Potvin The first time a rookie client needs to have a text translated, he’ll often ask himself the following question: why don’t I get one of my bilingual salespeople (or engineers or secretaries) to translate this for me? The implication here is that translators are just bilingual people who charge more! However,…
In the big world of the liberal professions, pricing varies widely among the various fields and services. In Quebec, the 46 professional orders—whose mission is first and foremost to protect the public—have over 385,000 members, including architects, lawyers, chemists, chartered professional accountants, human resources counsellors, criminologists, dentists, engineers, doctors, notaries, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers and…
The race for the title of the planet’s largest language services provider is in full swing. A case in point: Lionbridge’s recent acquisition of CLS Communication (owned by Lexi-Tech). However, the mergers of such industry giants also speak to how industrialized the translation market is becoming, a process that has been underway for some time…
