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Everything You Need to Know About Video Game Localization
For Employers
Ureed Editorial Team

Everything You Need to Know About Video Game Localization

Earlier this year, Fortnite gamers launched a hashtag on social media platforms that read #ForniteMiddleEastServers. The hashtag, which went viral on social media, was deployed in an effort to urge Epic Games Company to provide Fortnite servers for the Middle East.

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translating names
For Employers
Rebecca Byrne

Uncommon Foreign Nouns and Names: To Translate or Transliterate?

Every journalist or writer who isn’t living in a bubble has inevitably come across a foreign name for a person, place, food, custom, or cultural concept that must be translated or transliterated into the target language. Often, it’s difficult to decide whether to leave the word in its source language and/or script, to transliterate it to fit (as closely as possible) the phonemes and letters of the target language and its script, or to translate it. Here’s an informal guide to the ins and outs of each of these methods.

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Content Writing
Rebecca Byrne

Fun English Words and Their Histories

No list of “fun English words” would be complete without a history lesson. Modern English is a mosaic, having absorbed linguistic elements from several different sources over the course of hundreds of years.

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online courses intranslation and interpreting
For Freelancers
Rebecca Byrne

Top 5 Translation & Interpreting Schools

With increasing globalization and inextricably linked economies, cross-lingual communication has become a ubiquitous part of most companies’ daily operations. Statistics support this conclusion. The U.S. Department of Labor projects that between 2016 to 2026, the rate of employment for interpreters and translators will jump by a staggering 18%.

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Machine Translation, Artificial Intelligence and their Market’s Needs

Globalization and technology have revolutionized the international workforce. While most of the outcomes are positive, there are a few quirks that still need solving for. One thing that needs to be resolved is language processing and translation. These methods have improved throughout the last seventy years. Yet, there seems to always be more that technology and AI can do to perfect the machine translation process. When it comes to international business, a constant struggle is being able to effectively translate documents in a timely manner.

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10 online translation tools recommended by translators

You are absolutely a translator; a good one for sure. But why not be the best translator? All you need is to make some extra effort, you must have worked very hard to be fluent in two languages or even more. So, keep investing in yourself, and you will be the best translator ever; today you are better than you were yesterday and tomorrow you will become better than you are today.

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