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ISO standards and quality at LKT

Now that the summer is becoming a distant memory and the last quarter of the calendar year is here, we’re mindful that our annual ISO audits are just around the corner, and we’ve been reflecting on the value our ISO 9001 and 17100 certifications add to LKT both...

Mental health in the workplace – the LKTeam approach

On World Mental Health Day (10 October), this year’s focus is mental health in the workplace. In this post, Louise reflects on what LK Translations does to safeguard its team’s mental well-being. Recent statistics speak for themselves: 875,000 workers were...

The benefits of using a single-language vendor

What exactly is a single-language vendor in the world of translation? A single-language vendor, or SLV, focuses specifically on translations in one language pair. In LKT’s case, as a single-language vendor we translate exclusively from German into English. We made the...

LKTip roundup September and October

Sharing is caring   Here’s a tip for resources if you’re working in a team: a profile that you’re all signed into on Chrome means you can share all your bookmarks with useful glossaries, encyclopaedias and other resources. Here’s one of our...

LKTip roundup July and August

e.g., i.e., etc.   This LKTip is about two pretty common abbreviations: e.g. and i.e. We do use them in English, but they’re not always the best choice for flowing text in the way that you’ll often see their German counterparts (usually z.B. and d.h.)...