Writing and Translating About COVID-19: What You Need to Know
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a lot of new words into our daily vocabulary, many of which seem to be interchangeable or murkily defined. Are you sure you’re using them…
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Where to Get Government Aid to Translate Your Material
Particularly in a bilingual country like Canada, professional translation services can be quite an asset to your organization. Whether you’re a business planning to export internationally, an English-language company looking…
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Glossary of Translation Industry Terms
If you are new to the localization industry, we hope you will enjoy this brief localization glossary with some frequently used words and phrases. Related readingsWhy Terminology Management is Critical…
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Communication During COVID-19
Since the beginning of the pandemic, government briefings have become a comfortingly regular fixture of our daily lives. Canadian governments of all levels have been very good about keeping the…
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Montreal-Based Companies Lead the Translation Market in Canada
The Canadian translation market is one of the largest in the world and growing, with companies based in Montreal well placed to carve off a share of the revenue. Montreal’s…
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Chatbot Training: A New Kind of Language Service
Recently we did something we’ve never done before: we provided training data for an AI chatbot. Although this project presented a new challenge for OXO, we pulled it off with…
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Top 10 Multimedia Localization Best Practices for Latin America
Every day, more and more business managers and professional communicators look for resources to localize multimedia content for Latin America. Considering the expense of producing the content, and the size…
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Maintaining Work-Life Balance as a Freelance Translator? Mais oui!
Like many other freelance workers and entrepreneurs, you probably struggle to maintain a proper life balance, especially if you work from home. You are not alone! I mean, just take…
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Why Gender-Inclusive Language Matters
There are many women who don’t mind the generic use of masculine pronouns and words like “mankind” as a default. After all, laws that use “he” still protect their rights,…
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