Hall of fame: Miriam
A dedicated and highly proficient translator in our English and Italian as well as English and French language pairs, Miriam became a multilingual by chance and by choice. From a teenager translating for fun to an ATA-certified professional, she believes that the combination of academic learning ...
Five rules for choosing the right translation process
Choosing the right translation process isn’t easy. Each one—human translation (HT), machine translation (MT), post-edited machine translation (PEMT), and crowd human translation—has its benefits and drawbacks. Some are more expensive than others. Some offer the highest quality, but take more time...
The most important questions to ask translation vendors
Does your project require the human touch (human translation or HT), or will machine translation (MT) work well with your text? Maybe the middle-road of post-edited machine translation (PEMT) is precisely what you need. But, if you’re not sure which translation solution best meets the needs of yo...
Halloween around the world
Halloween, also known as All Hallows’ Eve or All Saints’ Eve, is an annual celebration held on October 31. Typical festive activities in most Western cultures include trick-or-treating, attending fancy dress parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, pla...
What to consider when choosing a translation approach
You think you know how translation works: you take the words from one language and find their equivalents in another language, right? Sure, there are a few grammatical hurdles and idioms, but it seems like a fairly simple process. Until you look into having content translated. Then, all of a sudd...
Hall of fame: Thiago
As well as becoming a Gengo Wordsmith, Thiago is also one of our newest Senior Translators in the English to Portuguese Brazilian language pair. He believes that reading a lot—in both your source and target languages—is the first step to being able to write well as a translator. What languages do...


