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A welcome message from the owner of Translation and Writing Services

Denny Vakaloglou

Welcome to Translation and Writing Services. If you are looking for professional, promt and reliable translations from English to Greek and Greek to English, then you have landed at the right site at the right time! My name is Vakaloglou Denny (kindly check the 'About Us' section of this site) and with more than 8 years of experience in the translation and writing field, I can offer you excellent, top quality translation work from English to Greek and Greek to English on several areas, Legal, Social, Marketing, Website translation, as well as professional writing services like articles, essays and reports.

Translation is my passion and I execute this job with an artistic feeling and great enthusiasm. Feel free to check my website and what I can do for you.

Thank you for stopping by my site today! I will be glad to be at your service any time

Why ordering Translation Services Online is getting more popular

As the Internet technology becomes more advanced today, many businesses and industries have been affected by it. In the past, no one buys online. Today, online shopping has become a phenomenon and the money generated from online every year is just getting crazier. Therefore, the translation service market is not an exception too. Nowadays, it is very hard for clients to reach their local translation as they are starting to order translation services online.

Clients know that by ordering translation services online, it is cheaper, faster and more convenient. With the Internet, clients now have more choices and will be able to look for the right translation services faster.

To fully understand how ordering translation services online can help you to reduce translation cost and cut down delivery time; allow me to share with you some points:

Firstly, online translation service provider has lower overheads and costs to cover. With their online translation portals and automated translation systems, they are able to cut down on their manpower and service costs. In this case, they can pass down the savings to the clients and make them enjoy better pricings. With automated systems and portals, online translators can eliminate majority of the tasks and agents involved during the process. This will enable them to work more efficiently and produce higher quality work.

Next, clients are able to get quotes faster with their online translation portals. They allow clients to upload their documents using the portal and place their orders in real time. This will cut down on the response and delivery time, which will bring benefits to the clients. Once the orders are submitted, translation providers will be notified immediately and can start working on it.

Online translation provides are also able to outsource translation services to other translators depending on the number of documents required for translation. With the work well-spread out, it allows for faster completion of the project and delivery of the translated documents.

Last but not least, clients can also check the status of the work online. With their designated usernames and passwords, they can log in to the portal securely and track the progress of the work. Clients are also able to retrieve invoices for all orders from their accounts. These are just some of the useful features that make online translation services so popular.

So, log on to the Internet and search for the various online translation providers available. Take your time to choose the best provider to outsource your work to

Why you need a good Translation Service when you market your business overseas?

 Today, many businesses are exploring into more and more countries for doing business and to market their products and services to more people around the world. The reason is simple: this will increase their overall revenue and profits. This is also beneficial to the consumers too, because they will have more variety of goods for their daily usage. However, to conduct business in multiple countries; businesses need to have a good marketing plan and techniques to be successful.

The most important thing that businesses need is to convey their marketing message and ideas clearly in different languages of the world. In order to do this, businesses need to have capable translation agencies to assist them with reliable translation services. If they are not able to convey their marketing message clearly to the native people, their marketing campaign will not be effective and money will be wasted.

When you are trying to market your business or products in a new region, it is essential that you convey the exact message behind the product without destructing the purpose of marketing. A good translation agency will be able to provide you with top-class translation marketing which can push your business to greater height. In marketing, you are trying to get your brand and products into the mind of the people. So to get into the mind of the people in a new region, you need to depend heavily on translation service so that they will understand what you are talking about and thus registering your message in their minds.

When conducting business overseas, you will need to spend advertising dollars so as to capture market share. With this, you will need to create a website to market your business. It is usually advisable for you to create a website which is in the native language so that the consumers can better connect with you. A professional translation agency can also provide other services such as technical, financial, legal, proposal and any other means of translation services for your business.

So before you expand your business into other region, you need to get a trustworthy translation agency on board. When choosing a translation agency, experience and professionalism is very important. In this site rest assure that your get all these.

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DID YOU  

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"Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source - language text by means of an equivalent target-language text"

The word translation derives from the Latin translatio (which itself comes from trans- and fero, together meaning "to carry across" or "to bring across"). The modern Romance languages use words for translation derived from that source and from the alternative Latin traduco ("to lead across"). The Germanic(except Dutch) and Slavic languages likewise usecalques based on these Latin sources^.

The Ancient Greek term for translation, μετάφρασις (metaphrasis, "a speaking across"), has supplied English with metaphrase (a "literal" or "word-for-word," translation) — as contrasted with paraphrase ("a saying in other words", from παράφρασις, paraphrasis). Metaphrase corresponds, in one of the more recent terminologies, to "formal equivalence"; and paraphrase, to "dynamic equivalence"

Strictly speaking, the concept of metaphrase — of "word-for-word translation" — is an imperfect concept, because a given word in a given language often carries more than one meaning; and because a similar given meaning may often be represented in a given language by more than one word. Nevertheless, "metaphrase" and "paraphrase" may be useful as ideal concepts that mark the extremes in the spectrum of possible approaches to translation.

A secular icon for the art of translation is the Rosetta Stone. This trilingual (hieroglyphic-Egyptian, demotic-Egyptian, Ancient-Greek) steel became the translator’s key to ecryption of Egyptian hieroglyphs by Thomas Young, Jean-Francois Champollion and others.

In the United States, the Rosetta Stone is incorporated into the crest of the Defense Language Institute

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7 Steps to Becoming a Freelance Writer

From the desk of Denny Vakaloglou

You love to write, and perhaps you’ve even had some of your work published, but you just can’t seem to get your career as a freelance writer of nonfiction off the ground. Here are some flight lessons:

1.        Focus

Nonfiction is an enormous universe. Map out a very small segment of the cosmos. Do you enjoy writing creative nonfiction — long articles and essays with a narrative flair that reads almost like fiction? Or do you have a more practical bent, tending toward how-to articles or procedural guides? Perhaps you’d like to write reviews of books or video games or software or appliances. Narrow your topic field; you can always widen your scope later.

2.       Adopt

What are your favorite Web sites or magazines or books? Are there writers whose styles inspire you? Find the publications that publish the kinds of content you like to read, and study the writing techniques on display. Don’t strive to imitate; use this step simply to help you find your niche.

3.       List

Create a short directory of publications or publishers to target. Assuming you’re just starting out, list targets more likely to publish writing by a beginner, but don’t be afraid to include a couple more high-profile publications. And don’t neglect what’s right under your nose: community newspaper(s), local magazines, and Web sites that publicize your region’s businesses or cultural and natural assets.

4.       Compile

Collect some of your best writing — published or otherwise — that represents you well and matches the type of content those publications are looking for.

5.        Contact

Go to your publisher directory, look up the URL for publication Web sites, and search for submission guidelines. If there are none, send a request for guidelines to the editorial department’s email address or the information address.

6.       Pitch

Come up with proposals for a few articles or essays you’d like to write, match them to various publications, and send them in. Alternatively or in addition, submit completed articles on spec. (“On spec,” short for “on specifications,” means tailoring an already written piece toward a specific market and offering it for publication.)

The strategy of writing on spec has its detractors, but it’s a good way to break into the writing market, and even if the piece itself is turned down, it may demonstrate to an editor that your pitch is worth a look, or that you might be a good match for an article they need a writer for.

7.        Persevere

Repeat step 6. If your pitch or your spec article is rejected, send it to someone else. If you strike out five or ten times, retire the idea, call in another one, and start another round with a new batch of publications. (Wait a few months before circling back around to those that turned you down previously, but never delete them from your directory.) Repeat.

You may get an acceptance or an assignment on your first try. (It’s happened.) You may get turned down once, or ten times, or a hundred times. Don’t give up. If you want it bad enough, you’ll get it, eventually. Your goal is not to hear “No” a given number of times, but to hear “Yes” once, and then once more, and then once more after that, etc. An unpublished writer is a writer who has given up.