Knockhundred News

We understand that students can face budgetary constraints when it comes to transcribing their research interviews. That’s why we offer an academic discount.

A recent BBC article highlights how language has evolved very differently in North and South Korea. Since the second World War and the division of the Korean peninsula, North Korea has remained a closed society, whilst South Korea, in contrast, has developed relationships with international partners and foreign cultures. Apparently this has had a significant impact on the development of language in both countries.

Our Italian subtitling projects normally involve short video clips, documentaries and adverts, but it turns out that secretly what our subtitling team crave to subtitle is the film, The Godfather.

South Korea is a major export market for some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers and indeed South Korea represents the third largest pharmaceutical market in the Asia-Pacific region.

The majority of our clients look for a one-stop-shop when it comes to contracting a good voice over service.

Last week we talked to one of our Russian subtitling experts about their work as a subtitler of films, ads and corporate videos.

We regularly receive requests to subtitle video footage from English into Chinese. We’ve seen a marked increase in the number of requests for subtitling assignments for Traditional Chinese.

When one of our clients approaches us about our Indonesian transcription service, we always need to establish exactly which Indonesian language or dialect is being spoken in the audio or video material.

A new BBC survey suggests foreign language teaching, such as French and German is being squeezed out of timetables in Wales. Will this trend result in fewer graduate French and German translators in the future?

The recent Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January got us thinking about our oral history transcription service and how the act of recording speech helps us to remember the huge events in history, and also the small events in an individual’s life.

In the world of advertising, time is always of the essence. But before an advertising campaign even reaches the screens, a whole series of castings take place, which is where Knockhundred Translations comes in.

With the Brexit debate constantly in the news and tempestuous times on the horizon, we’ve been receiving a steady stream of requests for document translations.