Dragoman Transcreation
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 284
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Zoom Weddings
Given the pandemic conditions, we all observe physical distancing rules. There are flight restrictions and many other local lockdown measures. World’s newest household brand Zoom is also becoming pop…
00:02:12 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
Events, conferences and simultaneous interpreting in the new normal
Online meetings and video conferences were less than 3% of the entire conference industry until only a few months ago. Starting from March and with the global lockdown measures, on-site interpreting …
00:02:11 |
Thu 07 May 2020
Use a comma after introductory adverbial phrases
The following text is taken verbatim from the book, 300 Days of Better Writing: A daily handbook for improving your writing written by David Bowman (2010) “An introductory adverbial phrase is a phras…
00:00:58 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
US English: Place ending punctuation inside the quotation marks
The following text is taken verbatim from the book, 300 Days of Better Writing: A daily handbook for improving your writing written by David Bowman (2010) “(Note to our friends in Great Britain: reve…
00:01:12 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
Percentage vs. Percentage Point
A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages. For example, moving up from 20% to 42% is a 22-percentage point increase, but is a 110 percent increa…
00:01:08 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
Drop That That
Using too many ‘thats’ will rob your sentences of their pace and spontaneity. This is especially true for verbs of speech or thought such as say, think, know and so on. Read or listen this example ca…
00:01:04 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
Avoiding Long Sentences
Writing long sentences will alienate your readers and would even cost you your customers. Try to shorten your sentences whenever possible: Long: The company will invest $2billion in a new semi-…
00:00:47 |
Sun 12 Apr 2020
Remote simultaneous interpreting on Zoom video meetings and webinars
Zoom has become an essential part of our lives during the global lockdown. Families, friends, teachers, schools, government agencies and private corporations are using Zoom on a daily basis. For us, …
00:03:56 |
Sat 11 Apr 2020
as – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:00:42 |
Sat 21 Dec 2019
while – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:01:04 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
since – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:01:02 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
actual – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:01:18 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
to blaze a (new) trail
Are you as old as I am and therefore able to name the NBA team the legendary basketball player Clyde Drexler is most commonly associated with? If you are getting somewhat on in years and you also fol…
00:01:53 |
Thu 19 Dec 2019
deepen – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:01:30 |
Thu 19 Dec 2019
to empower
to empower If you empower someone, you give that person authority or power to do something (The Oxford English Dictionary). Here is an example sentence: The prime minister said, “We have to give more…
00:00:40 |
Wed 18 Dec 2019
aim (with the aim to) – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:01:22 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
allow (to), permit (to), enable (to) – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:01:22 |
Mon 16 Dec 2019
concern, concerning, for what concerns – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:01:45 |
Sun 15 Dec 2019
important – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:01:28 |
Sat 14 Dec 2019
control – Misused Words
This article series aims to eliminate usage errors and help non-native speakers to write clearly and fluently. We suggest that you always do proper research and use style guides effectively. For anyt…
00:02:07 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
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