We at Apex are very proud of our highly trained translators and linguists. We thought you'd like to know some of our translators on a personal level - how languages formed their careers, how education played a role, what travels they've experienced, their mentors or teachers, interests, hobbies, and other talents. We've discovered our translators lead very interesting lives, the very opposite of hum-drum. A common thread that has become increasingly apparent is that our translators never stop learning. And that means one interest seems to spur on other interests, whether related or unrelated to the original specialty, and so on and so on. Take a look at an interview recently conducted with an English / Spanish [...]

We at Apex Translations monitor all new word additions to English dictionaries which endeavor to herald a new year's beginning with often-used parts of speech which denote current, if not up-to-the-minute, English phrasings, salutations, and internet slang. Click on the following link to glimpse a few: http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-selfie-tweep-new-words-websters-dictionary-20140519-story.html Along with new dictionary additions selfie, g'day, hashtag, and digital divide, one could hardly escape note of "Yooper," and it must be capitalized. Is it a new fish? Is it a yelp made by students attending a college football game in the hopes their team will win? Or is it a resident from a small village called Yoop? Amazingly, a Yooper is a resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, [...]

The above question is not only asked by a competent translation agency, but also by presidents, governmental ministers and leaders of nations, monarchs, patent attorneys, corporate CEOs who guide global businesses, medical and pharmaceutical professionals, ambassadors, diplomats, universities, educators, journalists, press secretaries, travel guides and authorities, writers, musicians, artists, poets, and even actors and actresses. (Think international cinema and those oh-so-necessary subtitles.) One could argue the last six professions mentioned might truly think of translation very carefully on a line by line, note by note basis for their art or performance to be the one originally intended by the author and/or creator. You know, the artist's incorruptible fervor over his/her creation should be RESPECTED and translated authentically! [...]

June-July, 2014 It's hard to believe that America continues to carry on patriotic traditions that were born long ago, but we Americans like to remind ourselves of freedom, flags, (Old Glory, that is), and firecrackers. Underneath all the frivolity, however, the average American heart never fails to be stirred by a mid-summer parade right down Main Street, Elm Street, Washington Street, First Street, Oak Street, Town Road, Maple Street, or even Adams Street (Pick one of these; surely one of them is yours), starring a smart American flag unfurled just once a year, ahead of the local high school band for this heady, if not splendid, sweaty occasion. It might be Flag Day (June 14) or Fourth [...]

In the course of history, translators have made errors, some more consequential than others. A few have had serious, adverse effects. Obviously, some inaccurate translations have resulted in hilarious nonsense we often read in day-to-day life, such as in manuals, textbooks, menus, maps, print advertisements, or even traffic signs. Sometimes, more often than not, there are serious linguistic blunders with global consequences. The following are some examples: The Martians In 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli reported that there were “canali” on Mars. The term was translated in press reports as “canals.” Since “canals” are artificial by definition, the American astronomer Percival Lowell became excited about the prospect of Mars having been populated by a race that [...]

This year’s Academy Award-winning song, Let It Go, is a popular, worthy, albeit hum-able tune, but at Apex Translations, we (our translating staff, linguists, proofreaders, and editors) will hardly let your document go without extensive examination that every translation benchmark has been met or even surpassed. As seen in the video below, a genius rendition of a multi-language translation of the theme song of Frozen, created, produced, and helmed by Disney, we at Apex Translations offer all languages you see at the displayed bottom of the film.  We do not use machine translation, nor any other kind of automatic click-on.  Our translations are produced by linguists, grammarians, and language specialists who are practiced translators skilled in nuanced cultural inflections, phonetics, and spellings.  In, other words, Apex is [...]

The Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, are nearing to its opening ceremony this week. Symbols of this international occasion have been slow to rear their heads, but after many submissions of what the Sochi mascot should be – the winners have been announced. Yes, there are winners: a polar bear, a snow leopard, and an arctic hare. Why so many? Here is a possible clue why there may be more than one mascot. The Olympics invites many nations to one locale for an enormously publicized, global athletic competition. There needs to be a variety of emblematic mascots because there are so many people – athletes competing, tourists visiting, coaches and families participating, fans viewing, dignitaries and [...]