Language Services Industry Glossary of Key Terms
New to using language companies? Here are the key terms to help you define your project.- Translation: Converting a written document into another language (often a specific dialect of a language).
- Interpretation: The oral translation from one language to another, such as at a conference or international meeting (just like at the UN General Assembly). Telephonic interpretation is an increasingly popular tool in the medical and legal fields, allowing customers to use individuals from across the country and around the world.
- Language Company: A firm that helps with translation, interpretation, or localization projects that typically require the services of several translators, interpreters, database designers, desktop publishers, and computer programmers. Language companies offer quality assurance processes by have work reviewed by several individuals, usually native speakers of the languages involved.
- Localization: Changing a product container, publication, website, brochure, or other document into another language, while also ensuring that it culturally appropriate for the target audience. To accomplish this a language company will pay particular attention to the choice of symbols, colors, currency and time formats to ensure that they are appropriate in the country or region where the document or website will appear.
- Internationalization is similar to localization. Internationalization is the adaptation of products for use virtually everywhere, while localization is the addition of special features for use in a specific location or region.
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