Articles from "Curiosities" category.

You will never forget your first trip to America. From the moment you step onto the plane until you land, your heart beats faster and faster. You can’t wait to see the famous skyscrapers of the city you’re landing in through the window. In New York, most flights from Europe land at J.F. Kennedy Airport. […]

You’re a student of the translators/foreign language faculty and have no idea what the future holds for you. In fact, most of the time, you have no clue about what’s happening. You go to classes, take exams, come home, and repeat. We understand. We’ve been there too, even worse, in fact! It can get even […]

Larisa’s superpower is to answer more than 1000 emails a day. Well, not every day. That would lead to energy exhaustion, both human and supernatural. But yes, there are days, and many of them, when the number of emails she goes through reaches the hundreds or surpasses the 1000 mark. Larisa is our LSP division […]

There are many similarities between Romania and Kazakhstan when you ask people about the two countries. They would probably assume this and that about both of them. Especially since they are both “developing” countries. And Borat visited them in his movie. In fact, these nations have been through a lot. And now, they’re trying to […]

For a Vietnamese, the Romanian language would be considered exotic. It differs in most aspects from the language spoken on the streets of Hanoi. If it weren’t spoken, actually, there would be no common ground between the two. And yet there are people in this world who can understand both these languages perfectly. Translators can […]

On a chilly Wednesday afternoon at the end of February, Maria and her colleagues were leaving the office like they always do. In spite of a long day, they were in a good mood. Translations in Ukraine were starting to pick up once more, and she and her team were fully booked for months ahead. […]

In a world dominated by social media, climate change, war, viruses and whatnot, what can a translation agency from Timisoara, with a staff of 40, do for us all to live a better, more development-driven life? Almost nothing, you might think at first. Yet numbers don’t lie. Over the past 19 years, we’ve changed the […]

What are the most impossible-to-translate languages out there? We’d think many of you would go straight for Chinese, Arabic, or Japanese. And very few would think about Hungarian, for example. In all honesty, all languages on this earth are hard to translate, especially if the translation is done by the wrong person. Much like in […]

While Roxana is as human as possible, and sometimes a bit too incredible for us to handle, her rival in this test is as inhuman as they get nowadays. A bot. A programming code with no feelings, no reactions in any situation, just a pleasing doer. Why would you test two very different entities head […]

Roxana had no idea that she will become a full-time freelance translator, at least not during her university studies. At the same time, she never dreamed about living in New York, during the time she spent studying economics in Bucharest. A young Roxana was so into taking on a completely different path in life that […]