It looks great to you on the surface, but… well, you can’t read Telugu. So you find yourself wondering: i s this translation really accurate? What if there’s something insensitive in here? Luckily, there is something called community checking or community validation that answers those questions for you. If you…

This month, Ethnolink is celebrating the 1-year anniversary of their office in Perth, Western Australia. Ethnolink is a premium language services company providing high-quality translation and localisation services to clients across a broad range of industries. Founder & CEO of Ethnolink, Costa Vasili credits Senior Translation Strategist, Cloé Bru, with…

What are health translations? A health translation is information about health that has been translated from one language into another to help the general public access health information in their language. Prominent examples of health translations include fact sheets, brochures, flyers, booklets, website content, social media posts, and videos. Health translations cover a range…

Here’s a question — if you were looking to convert an English brochure into Arabic, would you need a translator or an interpreter? Many people think that translators and interpreters do the same thing, but they’re really different roles entirely. Simply put, a translator works with written texts, while an…

Ethnolink has proudly been awarded a 2-year contract with HealthShare Victoria to provide our language solutions to health services across Victoria. As Australia’s leading language service provider, Ethnolink has been helping culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Australians access health information in their preferred language(s) since 2011. Ethnolink specialises in multicultural…

Ethnolink’s CEO, Costa Vasili has joined the board of the Australasian Association of Language Companies (AALC) as Treasurer. Founded in 2013, the AALC is the representative body for language service providers across Australia and New Zealand. …

It’s been a year of ups and downs, and looking back, we cannot be prouder of how far we’ve come. Thanks to the support of the translation and interpreting industry, our clients, and most of all, our wonderful team, we’ve been given the opportunity to grow. This month, Ethnolink is…

It seems like in recent weeks, there has been a lot of chatter about audiovisual translation… especially about captioning and subtitling. Our team at Ethnolink was pretty interested in everything going on around Squid Game ‘s translation controversy. We thought it would be interesting to unpack this and explore the…

Writing is hard. Whether we are writing to inform, persuade or entertain, we’re constantly renegotiating our word choices and sentence structures so that we can get our message across in clear, concise ways. But what about when you’re writing a text that will be translated into a different language? Well…