In order for you to get to know our highly-experienced translators, we’ve decided on a brief interview. Meet Althea. 1. Which languages do you translate and what industries do you specialise in? “English to Afrikaans/Afrikaans to English/Dutch to Afrikaans; Publishing industry, Academic industry.” 2. How long have you been a translator, and how did you[…]
Since our focus is on Afrikaans lately, we’ve been interviewing some of our foremost Afrikaans translators in order for you to get to know the people behind the translations. It also helps us to prove that we don’t translate with translation tools or use automatic translations or anything like that. We choose to work with[…]
This week, we’ll be profiling Afrikaans on our blog. As one of South Africa’s eleven official languages and our only official language starting with the Letter ‘A’, it was an easy first-choice. We plan to look at common definitions / descriptions of the language, interview some of our translators and look at common phrases and[…]
Considering our focus on Afrikaans, we’ve decided to highlight a few common terms. Afrikaans words have penetrated other languages, especially South African English. This is mainly due to the English and Afrikaans cultures merging to a certain extent in South Africa. There is also prevalence of South Africans speaking a mixture of English and Afrikaans[…]