by the LKTeam | Mar 7, 2019 | Language, Translation
As with all master craftspeople, artisans, and (word)smiths, we translators have a variety of highly sophisticated tools at our disposal to help us piece together the perfect puzzle presented by each and every translation task. Computer-assisted translation tools...
by the LKTeam | Jan 16, 2019 | British culture, Language, LKT, Switzerland, Trilingualism
Type “trilingual families” in Google today, and you hit about 1,320,000 results (thank you, Google). But growing up as a child in a trilingual family thirty-odd years ago, I am sure that there was not this abundance of research articles, books and blog posts regarding...
by the LKTeam | Dec 17, 2018 | CPD, Language, Translation
The reality of digitisation and the pace with which it is infiltrating and impacting on our everyday lives is undeniable – and, seemingly, unstoppable. From apps to social media, interactive advertisements to smart fridges, virtually every aspect of our modern...
by the LKTeam | Nov 21, 2018 | CPD, Language, LKT
Localisation is an important part of our work at LKT, whether it’s adapting an existing text for a specific English-speaking target audience or translating directly into another variant of English. One of these variants is American English, enabling our customers to...
by the LKTeam | Oct 5, 2018 | Language, LKT, Team, Travel
“The invention of languages is the foundation. The ‘stories’ were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse.” – J. R. R. Tolkien While most of us use language in some form every single day, it’s relatively rare that we consciously decide to...
