How Slow Should You Translate?
A common question faced by newer translators is how slow they should translate, which is a corollary of…
Knowledge hierarchies in China’s translation industry
Companies in China today spend a lot of money to hire native English language experts, and yet continue…
Why Black Myth: Wukong Story Dialogue is Awkward
Professional reviewers and players of Black Myth: Wukong complained about confusing dialogue and a story that is hard…
Minimum pricing policies for Chinese>English translation
According to the Translators Association of China, sham and misleading translations continue to plague the Chinese legal translation…
Fast translation services are dangerous for customers
The Chinese translation market is dominated by translators that go extremely fast, as shown by how prices for…
How much is a legal translation worth?
Companies are not doing adequate cost/benefit analysis on business translations, resulting in a great deal of value left…
“Touching Fish” and In-house Chinese-English Translation
Following the trend of “overemployment,” machine translation tools are providing companies’ in-house employees working on Chinese-English translations with…
Unethical Labor Practices used in Chinese Translation
Unethical labor practices dominate the industry because the majority of translation today is not provided by translators directly…
China’s international ambitions failing due to translator groupthink
Groupthink, the tendency for people to follow others’ lead like sheep, explains why Chinese companies’ international launches are…
How to identify translation provider business models
A legal translation client that turns to the translation industry will pay the full costs of a vast…