If you’ve ever delved into the appendices of Lord of the Rings, there’s plenty to keep your inner translation nerd happy. This is of course one of many reasons that the works of JRR Tolkien … Continue Reading »

Sometimes, it’s tiny, unexpected details that need to be changed in translation.

At MTT, we’ve been providing translations of technical press releases for over 40 years, so we’re more than … Continue Reading »

It’s not often that we say no to a job, but sometimes we may need to decline a translation or interpreting request. Usually, this can be down to:

Poor quality of the files – Sometimes scanned… Continue Reading »

Even if you are a native speaker, technical terminology can be tricky to understand. To someone from another country, documents with dense technical terminology can be completely incomprehensibl… Continue Reading »

Notations or labels in images are often not editable within a document. It can be awkward to try and find a way to translate them neatly.

In an ideal world, an image would have key numbers insert… Continue Reading »

Budgets are tight these days. Although your piece of equipment may have cost many thousands to design, manufacture and ship to its intended overseas buyer, there may not be a lot left in your bu… Continue Reading »

Translation became the focus of one news story this June as the British government met embarrassment over its translation of Theresa May’s Brexit Plan. The British government sought to do a fa… Continue Reading »

Just because you have ten fingers, it doesn’t make you a concert pianist. Similarly, just because you speak a language it doesn’t necessarily follow that you’ll be a good technical transla… Continue Reading »

If you’re writing a technical manual or other technical document from scratch, which you will then need to have produced in a different language, there are several things you can do to help make… Continue Reading »

As a long-standing translation agency with over 35 years’ experience, you’d expect us to be able to handle anything you could send our way. Most of the time we do and we provide a great serv… Continue Reading »