CAT Tool Pricing: Is it Worth It? Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools have been part and parcel of the translation business for well over a decade now. Barring the odd Luddite averse to technology or too set in their ways to adapt to new trends in the business or simply refuses to work with modern…
Turkish Interpreting Services When Buying a Property in Turkey Buying a property in Turkey can be a lucrative and smart investment. While Turkey is not in the European Union and do not have a sizable expat community like that of in Spain, Portugal and France, it has several advantages that makes it an ideal place…
Five Public Offices in Turkey where You Need a Sworn Translator As a foreigner living and working in Turkey you can get by reasonably well using your English. While you cannot expect Turkish people to speak English as good as Scandinavian or Dutch people, you can at least make yourself understood with the help of…
Six Unique Advantages of Working Directly with a Freelance Translator When you require English to Turkish translation services in a certain field, perhaps the very first thing you do is enter certain keywords in a search engine and search for a translation agency located in Turkey or elsewhere providing the kind of translation services you…
Futility of Test Translations Translators are often asked to take test translations to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a particular subject matter before being considered for a project or included in the database of a translation agency. To avoid confusion, this article discusses the paid or, more commonly, unpaid test translations that are ordinarily…
Translating English Texts Written by Non-Native Speakers If you’re a professional translator translating from English you should expect more than half of the texts you receive for translation to be written by non-native English speakers. This is especially true if you’re working as an in-house translator in a country like Turkey or as a freelance…
Turkish Human Resources Translation Services As a field of translation, Human Resources (HR) usually falls under the category of Legal Translation. While in most business organizations the departments of Human Resources and Legal Affairs work closely together and share certain characteristics, there are, nevertheless, clear-cut differences between both departments in terms of their respective roles…
Interpreting Services in Turkey As a foreigner living or working in Turkey, you may have to require the services of a Turkish to English Interpreter at some point. While you can manage most of your day to day affairs easily enough by speaking English – that is assuming you’re living in a major city and…
Apostille Certification and Sworn Turkish Translation Services Lately I have been receiving inquiries from clients regarding sworn Turkish translation services for documents requiring apostille certification. In this post, I would like to share my knowledge on the subject as a sworn court translator and try to help clear up some of the questions that potential…
Machine Translation and Turkish Language There is no denying that Artificial Intelligence has come a long way and transformed most industries, including the translation industry. Machine Translation (MT) has become, more or less, an integral part of the translation business with most cloud based CAT tools incorporating MT plug-ins to make use of AI. Unlike…
Making Sense of Turkish POAs Imagine reading a complex Power of Attorney (POA) composed of a single sentence that goes over 3 pages, listing all kinds of legal intricacies and details that may have potential consequences for you and your business. Now imagine that the said POA was issued by a Turkish Notary Public, containing…
Turkish Medical Translation Medical translation is one of the most in-demand areas of translation that is required by medical equipment manufacturers, clinical research labs, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers of every kind as well as translation agencies. Medical translators are usually expected to have graduated from a medical school and worked in the medical field, be…
Style Issues Style plays as significant a role in translation as it does in writing an essay in any language. It directly affects the quality of a translation, and more often than not bad translations are the products of poor stylistic preferences that are inconsistent with the context and subject matter than they are of…
Thoughts on Proofreading Importance of Proofreading Proofreading is an important part of the Quality Assurance process to ensure error-free translations. Proofreading is often confused with editing, revision, review and checking, and, more often than not, such seemingly different terms are used interchangeably to refer to the same process: having the work of one translator reviewed…
Translating from Target Language Translating from one’s native language into their source language is a very frowned upon practice in serious translation circles, and with good reason: no matter how fluent you get in your source language and have yourself immersed in your source language’s culture, you will never reach the level of linguistic proficiency…
Challenges Faced in Turkish Legal Translation Due to a number of reasons, translating legal texts from English to Turkish and vice versa could be a highly challenging task. While having a complete mastery of source and target languages, years of experience in legal translation, and academic and working knowledge of law in general are considered…
Sworn Turkish Translation and Notarization Process in Turkey Sworn translation, also known as certified or official translation, is a translation service where the translator, who is certified and accredited by relevant official authorities such as Notary Publics and Courts, attests to the veracity and accuracy of the translation by affixing their seal and signature on…
Professional Turkish Translation Services Simply put, Turkolocal is all about Turkish Translation. This website has been created with the sole aim of providing our clients with the highest quality English to Turkish Translation Services in the areas of law, finance, marketing, technology, medicine, pharmaceutics and patents. We are a team of highly qualified Turkish Translators…