One of our recent clients required their user manual translating into German, a request which sounded simple enough on the face of it. As is our usual policy at MTT, we selected a mother-tongue … Continue Reading »

This week we’ve been delighted to hold a translators’ day here at MTT, inviting some of our local translators to come to the office for a chat and a cuppa.

Working exclusively with freelance … Continue Reading »

We’re celebrating Pride Month with a language you may never have heard of – Polari!

Polari sprang up in the 1700s and 1800s as a secret language used by vagrants, itinerant performers, sailor… Continue Reading »

For packaging artwork translations, there are a few ways that we can process your files here at MTT.

The simplest way is to provide us with the stripped text from your artwork, which we can sen… Continue Reading »

Your website is a representation of your company to the world, so getting it right in translation couldn’t be more important. At MTT, we have nearly 40 years’ experience in providing excelle… 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 »

Believe it or not, the foundations for machine translation are far older than you would expect, dating back to the ninth century.

With its beginnings in cryptography, the theoretical basis of mac… Continue Reading »

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 »

Back-translation is one of the most common quality assurance checks in research processes and is most used in health to allow researchers to check that their translations are correct and fit for… Continue Reading »

How fast your translation can be processed can sometimes come down to how easy your files are to work with. So, how can you prepare your projects for translation?

One of the easiest ways to get y… Continue Reading »