An article by Domenico Lombardini – CEO and founder of ASTW – on the new approaches to work in a smart company, between productivity and personal life, has been published in the prestigious language services magazine Multilingual. For all our readers, we report Domenico’s words: Smart Company:...

Patent translation is one of the translation’s areas that more than others require the linguist to pay the utmost attention and precision. It is the very nature of the patent – a mix of technical and legal terminology – that necessitates this level of accuracy. However, as well as any other human...

A controversial Italian bill promoted by the majority party FdI is currently sparking discussions. The bill seeks to impose restrictions on the use of the English language in Italy, with the aim of preserving Italian language by imposing substantial fines of up to 100,000 euros. The proposal was presented...

Our long-time readers know very well how ASTW has always a special attention towards machine translation. In fact, we have often dedicated a wide space to the matter within our bi-weekly articles (viewable at the link in orange). Therefore, we could not overlook Translated’s publication of a very interesting...

As we were watching the news, a month ago, still fresh in my mind the last event ASTW sponsored in London, the Global IP ConfEx, something caught my eye. The TGR, the local news on RAI channel, presented four friends from Chiavari, a town near Genoa, and their invention: a “system” to heat up a house that cost one...

From its beginning, there were many jokes around the translation results users would get from Google Translate usage. Some very funny, some others very odd, some were even dangerous, since they could lead anyone to an awkward, even disastrous situation. Yet, Machine Translation, made its way through time to the...

There are so many tasks and activities we execute in a daily basis, so many that we don’t know, or are not able to identify exactly where it all started. The origin of things is an interesting matter, though we seldom ask ourselves the “ground zero” of it. Considering that every activity of our community comes from a...

One of the greatest opportunities for a translation company, and reason to be proud of, is to participate to, sponsor events such as Global IP ConfEx 2022, organized by Events4Sure. Joining in an event, which is not specifically for the translation field, is a real pleasure, apart from being a golden moment to learn....

Events are maybe the best way to get to know interesting people and learn about new things. Or, at least, those things that you have never considered learning before. The opportunity to join the Global IP ConfEx — next Wednesday, in London —, representing ASTW Specialised Translation, means a chance to dive in a...

As a foreign language student and, later in life, a foreign language teacher, one of the questions most often asked was “how to get fluent” or “how to understand everything in another language”. In fact, learning a foreign language is hard, depending on how close or how far it is from your own mother tongue. It takes...