Why should I hire a professional translator?

Today we wanted to share with you some very funny pictures we found on the web that definitely make us reflect on the importance of professional translations. We know that good translations are generally expensive, but there is a reason for that. Lots of hard work lay behind quality translations.

Translating is much more than just knowing the source and target languages! If it were only that, then nobody would hire a translator and everybody would use google translate for their documents. A professional translator studies not only the language but the culture as well, he or she doesn't only translate word by word like a computer does but translates the meaning and ideally proofreads as well.

Our company, Rosetta Press works with highly qualified translators and proofreaders in every translating project. We make sure every piece of work is translated, checked, re-checked and proofread before we hand it back to our customers.

Having said this, here are the funny translations that we found.

Enjoy!

Do you think they convey the same message?

Would you like some grave juice? Yummy...

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 Joroba in Spanish is a hump!

What would you think of you company's Jojoba oil translated into hump oil?

Well we have so many mistakes here...

A sneak preview to the First Prize winner's Book cover

As you all know, Ginger Myrick was the First Prize winner of the Rosetta Literary Contest 2012.

Her fabulous book "The Converso" was translated into Spanish as part of her first prize as well as a new image for her book. Our translating team was mesmerized by her story and we are sure that she will have every success with Spanish speaking readers as well.

This is the cover we designed for her:

We would like to share with you her webpage so you can find out more about her and discover her amazing works: http://gingermyrick.com/

We'll keep you posted with more information about Ginger and her work,

have a great day!

Proofreading Tips and Techniques

Hello everyone!

We've been thinking about our fellow writers a lot lately with the whole issue of our literary contest. One of the main issues that arose was that of proofreading and editing of a text.

At Rosetta Press we offer professional proofreading and editing services at reasonable prices, but we know that even before you think of professional proofreading, you should always do some basic proofreading yourself. Following some basic proofreading tips, you can make sure many of the mistakes we generally encounter can be solved. If you spend just a few extra minutes checking your work you can improve your writing and with that make the most of your professional proofreading services.

Some simple things you can do to improve your writing are use the spell-check option in your word processor but don't depend on it, read your work aloud and let some time go by before you check it again. Make sure you track your changes with a different colour so you know where you did the changes.

We discovered the following article http://www.dailywritingtips.com/8-proofreading-tips-and-techniques/ about proofreading and editing and wanted to share it with you people.

We hope this entry was useful!