Difficulties In Portuguese Subtitling Services
Portuguese As a Language:
The Portuguese language might not be as widely spoken as some other languages like English, Chinese and Spanish. Yet it is natively spoken by more than 220 million individuals. The total number of Portuguese speakers goes beyond 260 million all around the world. The language is quite commonly spoken in 4 continents and is the official language of 10 nations which include Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal and Sao Tome and Principe. A lot of petitions have been filed but none has worked enough to make it an official language of the United Nations.
Portuguese is also one of the romantic languages and is the second most spoken Romance language in the world after Spanish. The Portuguese language shares a lot of similarities with Spanish. In fact, the South American region that shares its boundary with Brazil is actually a Spanish speaking area but an unsystematic mix of these two languages is spoken there and it is called Portunhol.
Importance Of Portuguese Video Subtitling Services
With such a huge number of speakers around the world, Portuguese has also earned a position in the top 10 internet languages. The online searches made in Portuguese are increasing on a daily basis. The largest video sharing platform YouTube has a great number of videos uploaded in the Portuguese language or with Portuguese subtitles. Analysis of the top 250 videos on YouTube states that it is the third most used language in on the platform after English and Spanish.
These facts are quite enough to understand why English to Portuguese subtitling services are needed and how it can impact your audience or viewers in a positive way. These can also be useful for the people who are either deaf or hard of hearing and thus improve the viewership of your video.
But let us tell you that it isn’t as easy as it sounds. There are many challenges that the professionals have to face while writing the subtitles. Let’s discuss them in brief.
Challenges in Portuguese Subtitling Services
The very first challenge is due to the dialects that the Portuguese language has. It is important to know for what region of the earth you are writing subtitles for, and accordingly have to add subtitles. European, Africana, and Brazilian are the three major dialects of the language.
The next challenge is to fit the text length into the given screen width. This is actually quite challenging because Portuguese has long sentenced phrases. There are a few languages where fewer words is needed to make a sentence, while in some others the same sentence needs more words to convey the exact same meaning. The same goes for the Portuguese language while writing subtitles for an English video into Portuguese, the length of the sentence increases and the task of fitting it into the screen width becomes the next challenge.
Some of the very small things that need to be taken care of while writing subtitles in Portuguese include small elements like date and time formats, capital words, etc. For example, in English, the first letter of all the words present in the heading must be capitalized. But in the written form of Portuguese, only the first letter of the first word is kept capital and all others will be in the smaller case. When it comes to date, countries speaking Portuguese generally use 24 hours date format and date are mentioned in the day/month/year format unlike in the English language.
Vanan Captioning is one such agency that has an expert team of professionals who overcome all these challenges and deliver the best of results in quality and accuracy. We are not limited to English to Portuguese subtitling but also offers Portuguese to English subtitling services. You can connect with us via chat.
Subtitling services are needed for any video with an international audience Public information videos that need to be closed-captioned to make them accessible to the deaf or hard of hearing.
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Subtitles are captions but captions are not subtitles.
Generally, subtitles displayed on the bottom of the television screen, film etc,.
This helps us in understanding the language by transcribing and translating the dialogue or narrative of the characters that spoken.However, subtitles and closed captions goal are to provide information to the viewers.
As a result, it is understood that subtitles are translated text that displayed on the bottom of the screen.
For example: If you are watching an English video, and you are in the need of Spanish subtitles for clear understanding of the language spoken by the character.
This will not include any noises and sound effects from the video.In case, you are in immediate need of subtitles for your video, you can download it easily through many automatic software tools available online.
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Our team deliver quality subtitling services and solutions to almost all the businesses.
