Latest News & Articles

We welcome you to the Alphatrad Worldwide blog which will provide you with the latest news and interesting articles on the language services and internationalization industry.

Word Magic: How Much Really Gets Lost in Translation?

Once, in a restaurant in Italy with my family, I occasioned enormous merriment, as a nineteenth-century humorist would have put it, by confusing two Italian words. I thought I had, very suavely, ordered for dessert fragoline—those lovely little wild strawberries. Instead, I seem to have asked for fagiolini—green beans. The waiter ceremoniously brought me a plate of […]

Famous USSR Interpreter Sukhodrev Dies at 81

Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, left, jokes with United Nations Secretary General Frederick H. Boland, right, during the UN General Assembly session at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Oct. 3, 1960. At center is Khrushchev’s interpreter, Victor Sukhodrev. Legendary Russian interpreter Victor Sukhodrev has died in Moscow at the age of […]

Archives