Given idioma’s headquarters are in Tokyo, this happens to be a common business trip target for our managing director in Prague. Despite being used to the different culture after years of living in Japan, visiting Tokyo after a longer period of being exposed to Central European free-thinking can still strike hard. On the other hand, …

Business trip to Tokyo – part 1: Japanese Signs Read more

Translating from and to many languages brings about lots of interesting facts, increases curiosity and reveals things most people would hardly think twice about. Well we do, so why not share some the know-how? For instance, we regularly work with translation into English – who doesn’t, to be honest 🙂 – and handle both British English and …

Translation tips: Initial Capitals in English translation Read more

Translation is not an easy task. Many people say that the best translation is when translated text exceeds the quality and understanding of the original text. We fully agree, but to get there is an uphill battle and a struggle unless we know what we are dealing with. In reality, there are hundreds of different …

Translation tips: When a jack is not a jack Read more