This quarter we have selected a localisation job as the most interesting. Localisation is rarely easy or quick as it is very important to keep the message adapting it to a new group of readers. This time we were contracted to localise a Brazilian Portuguese Code of Conduct into European Portuguese. The different syntax, grammar and technical jargon in use in these two parts of the World make it necessary to re-write most of the text. One would not think so, as Brazilian and Portuguese people understand each other pretty well and can have a laugh together. However, technical jargon is very different in these two language variants, often making localisation required to prevent any misinterpretations and subsequent incidents or even court cases.

Mónica Machado is an English into European Portuguese translator, specialised in Oil and Gas, Mining and Geology, Environment, Hydroelectric Power, Renewables, HSE, Shipping and Business Legal Areas, working for Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries, such as Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe.