Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Jam Jars For Wedding Favors



After various posts rather less than the more serious came of the end time of the facts connected with the life of our company.

As we reported a week and a half ago, our representatives went out to conquer the East. Currently there are no longer with us, ready to share your experiences with travel and its effects. Let us therefore vote Stanislaus, our sales manager for eastern markets.

"From Krakow we went on Sunday, July 20. Border - actually a few booths closed at key customs officials and three mobile units of border guards - crossed on Monday morning. The fact that the Baltic countries joined together with the Polish in December 2007 the Schengen area border crossing lasts no longer than three minutes (it was not even necessary to stop).

Since this was our first trip to these regions were waiting for us a lot of surprises.

Firstly, I immediately felt a difference when it comes to the quality of the road - you have to admit that generally speaking Lithuanian roads are much better than Polish. Secondly, the prices, including fuel, are much lower than ours. And finally, almost every gas station employee if a shop knows at least one of the three languages \u200b\u200b(English, Polish or Russian).

Some urban districts of Lithuania is still haunted by post-Soviet ruderami, but lost in a thicket of charming cottages covered with tiles.

Latvia surprised us even more. I suspect that the eastern region are less wealthy, but after passing through the village, such as Bauska, Iecava, Ķekava we felt like in Western Europe.

And so the first point of our trip was in Riga, where we were warmly welcomed. Tête à tête meetings with numerous heads of translation agencies (often in an informal atmosphere J), helped us get to know each other a little closer. It turned out that the directors of the Latvian office, which conducted the negotiations, the two have much in common: regardless of age are extremely energetic people, having a clearly defined vision.

Companies that have already happened with automatyzowały XTRF developed thanks to him beyond recognition. However, young players on the market they want to keep up with them - have signed contracts so that one of the local businessmen called the capital Riga real XTRF. "

And below you'll find some information about two of the companies with which our delegates have established cooperation.

July 22 agreement was signed with the company resellingu "Mestako.

Representatives' Mestako "already well able to advertise your business as a partner, SDL International (TRADOS) in the Baltic countries. This agreement means that the translation agency from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will have the opportunity to not only benefit from the services related to automation, but also with the help of specialists on site. More information can be found here and here.

We also have good news for customers in Lithuania. Soon XTRF speak in Lithuanian. Thanks to this rustic in the industry will benefit from the possibility of automated translation with the help of only one available from the web browser system for managing translation agencies fully adapted to the needs of the Lithuanian market. Actually, as long as it is hard for us to imagine XTRF in Antanas Baranauskas, however, when the job takes you Ščiuk Darius and his team Vilnius UAB Lingvinai ", we can sleep peacefully without worrying about results.

the pictures below you can see the teams of some of the companies with which our representatives met during his tour. Happy faces speak for themselves J


Company Strombus (Rīga) on the head, which faces the young at heart Leonīds Platups. The heart grows us, when we think that with the offer we could help the company in an active expansion into new markets.

energetic leader "Mestako" Kaspars Kļaviņš


Below we include a few photos of Riga and Vilnius (own archives) for those who were not there yet.


Riga, if you were already here to come back for sure!:


At each corner of the beautiful churches and Orthodox churches

board that tells you about the fact that old the city was UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Three Brothers, a complex of buildings on the street Maza Pils. (The oldest of the buildings was built in the late fifteenth century).



See Lithuania and die (see for yourself :-)


Vilnius night

Lithuanian village


Stanislaw XTRF (developed Wojtek, XTRF)

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Curtain Holdback Image

With tongue in your ear

Welcome to the second installment of our series of "pearls" of translation. This time we have only one text, but it is packed with so many neologisms, syntactic errors and experiments that can be used for all ten. Names left in the text without change, rather than replace them, for example letters, and that in order to better and more pleasant to receive it. But let the bold the more interesting pieces. Places where the following translation we found, of course, do not betray.


Here is our translation masterpiece, in "own person":


"Dunajec River forms the border of the Polish - Slovak section of 18 km. There is no industrial agglomeration. Dunajec is one of the cleanest rivers in central Europe. On the Slovak - Polish section is a fast-flowing mountain river, which formed the wapieniowce in a romantic valley called Dunajec.


Dunajec River offers a beautiful experience and exhilarating views of the surroundings in a natural setting. It is not very busy. Najskrajniejszy movement has Dunajec River where it has a smaller slope . Dunajec River Gorge is protected and it is an aesthetic landscape .


Dunajec River, Pieniny National Park and around are so beautiful that it deserved and you check for them on the water, walking and cycling '.


Eeeh: "no comment ":-).


Wojtek, XTRF

Monday, July 28, 2008

Ceiling Fan Orange Wire

horse would laugh

This is the second door, "with tongue in your ear," How open forum. We'll put here, different things that we have find that they are not translations, but they are funny in themselves. Here again, we will not anyone point a finger, but we will give the same text.

And the first fire the exception of CV, original spelling:

"I want to use and develop language skills while doskonalieniu ojczystystego language."


And ironically, would do well to improve ;-).


Wojtek, XTRF

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Keebler , What Does Expiration Date Mean

with tongue ear

Pod This title will publish "gems" translation, which we have found. This department would simply create a healthy laugh, not to taunt with someone, so the assumption we will not give the authors of these translations revolutionary, but merely a place where something like this was.

the way we encourage everyone to put in comments "interesting", for which I managed to find. You can also podsyłać them to us an email if you want to be found in the main text blog, and not in the comments.

can be given, of course, following the original, but it is not needed, because most often it is not so much about the lack of fidelity to the text as a bizarre, funny, silly, or just read the translations in our language.


A premier charts wonders were found on the website of one company and one of the music magazines.


's and themselves "winners":

Third Place: "Limited Brand" - that is ... "Wing of the company." (Somehow I never heard that the company had factions - the religious movement or political party and, yes, but the company)?


Second Place: "Pain in the ass" or ... "Pain in the ass." We recommend Posterisan and change the translation, because of how well we know, there is no such phrase in our language.


A place of honor falls to the first: translating bookmark site: "Home" on ... "Home" and we naively thought she'd be "home":)

That would be enough for today. You say goodbye to an old Polish Have a nice day


Wojtek, XTRF

Monday, July 21, 2008

Widding Sharary Pakistani

Manager-ia

The proverb: "Pole is wise after the event, while the old managerial wisdom holds that" You can not manage something what is not measured. "

so do not come true To the words of Jan Kochanowski

"a new parable Pole buys

That, and before the injury and after injury stupid"

need to consider which aspects of the translation agency work should be measured.

Figure 1: Analysis of profit per individual customer.

first answer, which imposes itself is, of course, the quality of translations.

But there is another, perhaps less obvious to explain, but essential for those responsible for managing the office. When you do not know what's going on, it's about money ... and in fact what should be taken into account in the management office are analysis and financial projections.

Analysis, this course should be as accurate as possible, and as the manager is not only a lover of wisdom, but also the person to whom the duty to take decisions and often quick decisions, they should be based on how the most recent data and be available at any time, from anywhere in the world.

Figure 2: The projected cash flow for a specified period of time.


In addition, the wise management must take into account not only allow a limited range of situations, but this should be done-even if no sub aeterna species, at least always - taking into account the overall business processes.


Therefore, using XTRF can measure not only: the quality of the work of translators and the number of complaints, but also the viability of the project, as well as within each of its language combinations, and this regardless of whether the currency deposits and withdrawals are same or differ from one another.

addition, you gain instant access to studies on: marketing, profit, profitability, number of tasks, number of customer complaints, the number of internal inconsistencies, the number of non-compliance, and the number of projects completed on time by, among others: customers, country, project managers, projects, subcontractors, specialty and language combination, as well as the source language or target.

Figure 3: Analysis of the profitability of different language combinations.

example, you can check in with clients, of which the countries relate to the most profit, which is the largest wypracowywuje Project Manager turnover, which shows trends of your customers: if you outsource the translation more often, less frequently, or their number has remained at similar levels, etc.

A, and that's not all. As the wise management has an impact on the future of the company, managers here get access to the analysis of projected cash flow.

All this is of course available in a few seconds, from anywhere in the world, from a web browser.

After paraphrasing the words of Nicholas Rey, "Let the nations hath outsiders know that Poles are not geese, manage they know how. "

Wojtek, XTRF

Friday, July 18, 2008

Party At Silvercity Brampton

hundred years

Our consultant Alexander, celebrating a birthday today. Of course there were some one hundred years of choral and cordial greetings.

But as the days still continues, a joy and singing should never be an end, our entire team reiterates its wish. Sandra all the best, not just today but every day.

Wojtek, XTRF

Sharp Tv Keep Turning Off

Journey to the East

Our consultants Tom and Staszek, follow the East. It is true not exactly in the footsteps of Herman Hesse and his characters, but with a serious mission, the signing of several important contracts.



on 21-23 July will be in Riga, Latvia, and then leave to go in and around the Gates of Dawn, where you entertain on 24-25 July.



More information can be found on the blog after their return.


Wojtek, XTRF

Blistering Rash On Buttocks

Spanish waltz

We are pleased to announce that the company Sicaman Nuevas Tecnologias SL and XTRF Management System are collaborating in the field of distribution and resellingu. Nuevas Tecnologias Sicaman will distribute the software XTRF in Spain and Portugal.

said Daniel Villafranca, president Sicaman Nuevas Tecnologias: "Signing this agreement represents an important stage of our business strategy. We believe that the Portuguese and English translation agency using the experience XTRF will be able to optimize the course of their processes. "


The Andrew Nedoma, Managing Partner at XTRF said: "We are extremely proud to have the opportunity to interact with Sicaman Nuevas Tecnologias. For a long time we looked carefully at their work and are confident that their hard work, dedication and professional approach will allow the English and Portuguese translation agencies to appreciate the benefits to be gained by using XTRF. "


Wojtek, XTRF