Aída Ramos – Translation Expert

After acquiring international work experience in Ireland, Luxembourg (as a trainee at the European Commission’s Translation Service) and India, she founded Thinking Side Language Services, which helps companies seeking to enter the Spanish market, improve brand awareness and increase sales by offering translation, transcreation, project management and copywriting services into Spanish (her mother tongue). Her creativity and in‐depth understanding of different cultures are key in helping her clients reach their target audiences and spur them into action.

She is an active member of ASETRAD (the Spanish translators’ association), MET (Mediterranean Editors and Translators) and the IWBB (International Women Building Businesses) and has taught several courses on transcreation.

What is transcreation?

Also called creative translation, advertising or marketing translation, but there is a lot more to it than that: as its name suggests, it is a combination of translation and creation that seeks to recreate a text, making it attractive, appropriate and relevant to a specific target audience. The style and, as far as possible, the structure of the original are respected, but the idea is to reflect emotions and feelings naturally, as if the text had been crafted from scratch in the target language. It calls for great creativity and an exhaustive understanding of both cultures.

Transcreation tends to be used in marketing and advertising, fields in which it is crucial to reach the end client and spur them into action. Done well, transcreation generates trust, empathy, and emotion.

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