19th July, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments
To translate medical and pharmaceutical texts is quite a specific and tough task which requires suitable qualification, preferably a degree in both Medicine and in language studies and experience in the subject medical area.The Medical Translation will be good, only if the subject text is well understood by the translator, so extensive language knowledge is simply not enough. Medical and scientific writing has its own turn of phrase, so somebody may possess excellent bi-lingual skills, but hiring him or her as a translator is a sure-fire recipe for disaster in translation, unless he or she is also an expert in the field. For instance, if you open a German English dictionary, you may find “anamnesis” as a counterpart of the German word ‘anamnese’, commonly used in German medical texts. A translator, who does not know that the expression medical doctors use in their practice is “case history of a patient” will simply translate it as “anamnesis”, which in fact, is never used. On the other hand, the task of somebody who is an experienced medical doctor but has poor language skills would not be easier. For instance, a subject expert may spend many a sleepless night over the English equivalent of Patientengut, a German word best translated as “patient records”. Continue reading Read More
20th March, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments
Most adults when learning a new language will make a mistake and when this happens everyone wants to jump in and correct him or her. That’s because people who can’t grasp the language are often believed to be less intelligent and slow. But even the person who is tasked with the challenging role of having to learn a new language can often feel belittled by his or her lack of mastery in the new language. Continue reading Read More
15th March, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments
Regardless of whether you are just starting out learning Japanese Translation or some other language for that matter or a seasoned language translation professional or interpreter who now wishes to add even more skills, this article is for you.. On the other hand, it just makes sense to be able to communicate intelligently in any language and it also helps your present yourself better when you can put a mechanically sound statement together in any language. Continue reading Read More