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It`s not a secret pupils and students often contact our agency to get support in translating their researches, theses or simply home assignment. Thus, we have recently translated in Spanish the tale "Three Little Pigs." What problems faced the Spanish native speaker translating this folklore text?

Cordyceps is a medicinal mushroom growing up from a сaterpillar bulk at a height of 3,000-5,000 m above sea level. It occurs more often in the Tibetan Plateau. Therefore, not surprising that it is with the Chinese language we have translated the extensive direction for use this "Chinese caterpillar mushroom", considered to be an aphrodisiac, tonic, rejuvenator and antiswelling agent.

A brand is a marketing term meaning a new product or a service with a popular and recognizable brand marks, while branding and brand management are focused on consumer psychology in order to make the brand rememberable and recognizable. A famous American marketing expert, whose work we have translated recently, describes the main principles of branding in fascinating short articles.

The competitions for best graffities are held. For example, there are competitions with the depictions of the classic authors’ portraits on the territory of "Flacon" factory in Moscow or it is allowed tourists to draw on the Great Wall of China. Meanwhile, there are the organizations that don`t share the ideas of such type of art as painting on the walls, especially when it is referred to graffiti in the subway train carriages, on the billboards and road signs, as well as on the roofs of the stadiums.

How many people know the electric bicycle, or electrobicycle? The idea of equipping a bicycle with a motor went a little later the invention of a bicycle. Recently we translated from French some instructions for the famous European brand of carmakers. Thanks to our translation, we hope to find more cyclists in Russian cities. Bicycles with electric motor help everybody, even people without physical fitness, to run long distances.

One of the interesting orders which were performed at our agency was the recent translation of the project in the related topics of "Ecology" and "Zoology" into English. It was scientific work about mariculture distribution of the mussels in the White Sea. The Pacific blue mussel (Mytilus trossulus) and the Common mussel (Mytilus edulis): what kind of the type oppresses the other in the calm water areas and how challenging is the breeding of mussel plantations in the northern seas.

Petrochemical translators are specialists able to carry out an order of any degree of complexity. Translation bureau "Flarus" has an entire group of translators oriented exactly to translation of texts of petrochemical and oil processing subject area.

This month we completed a big translation project from Russian of a user manual and an operating instruction for the professional computer polygraph software. So how to run a lie detector test? It turns out, that lie detectors are common not only with the judicial investigations but also with recruitment, which is even reflected in the Labor law of Russian Federation.

One month ago our agency started working on a big and exciting project — a translation of six full movie scripts from Spanish. You can always tell a Spanish movie from any other by its particular weirdness, marked by several specific features. They run like a common thread through various scripts of road movies, sitcoms and TV-shows, translated to Russian by our specialists.

Prosthesis as a kind of medical care involves partial or complete filling of form and function of the organ affected by the injury or illness. In our bureau, we have translated from English a large scope of texts about open prosthetics – hearing aid.

Recently our agency translated, from Chinese, terminology of t’ai chi ch’uan martial art (one of the Wushu forms).

Horseracing, fighting, trampoline tumbling, ping pong, field hockey — we have made translations on these subjects in our agency so far. Those sports events are among 65 competitions, which are running this summer in London during the XXX Summer Olympic Games after all.

Each medicine label has a section called “Side effects”, which is the most exciting reading stuff. However, if you really intend to take those pills you better skip that part.

For a company dealing with medicine and chemistry, we have translated, into Chinese, a calendar of popular beliefs and superstitions. The issue of the Calendar was intended to mark the coming of the New Year. Along with traditional Russian and Chinese beliefs, it also contained “modern” superstitions connected with cars and computers.

Our agency performed multiple translations on Chinese history and politics. Recently we completed a huge translation of an article about corporations in Ancient China.

It is not for the first time that we translate articles for a sneakers & tennis shoes magazine. The magazine is fully dedicated to sports footwear, its history and development, fashion trends, and various events and persons, which are connected, in one way or other, with the “sneaker culture” (where “sneakers” means sports shoes of a kind).

Recently we translated compliance code for employees of one small Chinese company to Russian. Strict hierarchy and control – here are pillars of internal labor policy of the Celestial Empire’s companies.

Insurance – is special type of economic relationships intended to provide insurance protection of people and their fairs from different dangers. Insurance translations hold a specific place among all other translations.

The “Russian boom” in the Spanish real estate market has been on the rise for several years already. As soon as real estate prices in Spain dropped during the decline, the British left Spain; however, the country became more and more frequently visited by the Russians.

We have recently translated draft marriage contract to German. What do marriage partners wait from each other if their marriage becomes wrong?

Construction and industrial technologies are a frequent subject of our translations: we translate operations manuals for various construction machinery (excavator-loaders, mini loaders, crushers etc.), as well as construction machinery and additional attached implements catalogs within the specificity of road building equipment for earthworks.