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Here To Help You Through These Times

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogApril 6, 20200 comments

#business #businessowner #businesswoman #businessman #businessowners #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #smallbusiness #marketing #writing #proofreading #translation #French #English

We are Open and Here to Help!   These are strange and unprecedented times, in which there are many uncertainties. But one thing is certain: we are all in this together. No one has been left unaffected, and each and every one of us has had to adapt to a new way of doing things.   Please ...

Halton Hills Chamber of Commerce Featured Member Profile

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogDecember 17, 20190 comments

#Translation #Proofreading #French #English #HaltonHills #ChamberofCommerce

We're honoured to have won the Halton Hills Chamber of Commerce's Featured Member Profile.   "At every Chamber Networking event, members have a chance to win the Featured Member of the Month during the prize draws - you have to be there to win!   Congratulations to December's ...

International Translation Day

By Focus First ProofreadingSeptember 30, 20190 comments

#International #Translation #Language #Understanding #Cooperation #World

Today, September 30th, is International Translation Day. "International Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, ...

Focus First Proofreading Update: Remembering a Special Life

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogJune 24, 20190 comments

#Translation #Proofreading #French #English #Remembering #Blessing #Pet #loss #Grief

It’s been quiet on our end for a bit and we just want to give a quick update as to why.   Honesty is my “middle name” after all, and I wanted to take a second to communicate the fact that I have recently lost one of my precious girls/daughters/cats. Samantha ...

Written Mistakes: Numbers Can Be Typos Too!

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogFebruary 25, 20190 comments

#Mistakes #Typos #Numbers #Written #Error #Proofread

We’re now well into the New Year. Do you still find yourself sometimes writing 2018 instead of 2019?   Most often, we think of typos in the form of extra letters in a word, or letters accidentally placed in the wrong order. But typos can be in the form of numbers too, ...

Online Translation Tools and Resources – Beware!

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogDecember 6, 20180 comments

Be wary of free translation tools online! In this day and age of accessibility to so many great tools and so much information online, it’s easy to give in and use the first available thing that one can find to suit his or her needs.   This is a tale of caution.   While ...

Proofreading Services in Halton Hills

By Focus First ProofreadingAugust 31, 20180 comments

When looking for proofreading services in Halton Hills, look no further.   Focus First Proofreading services operates in the Halton Hills and surrounding areas.   We specialize in proofreading, translation, and editing services in both English and French.   We also ...

Preventing Costly Miscommunications

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogApril 18, 20180 comments

I’ve always had a gift for languages, but my main lifetime focus has been to help others. I would have loved to go into medicine to help heal and save the world, but physics, chemistry and I never did get along well enough. I’ve filled the need to help in the health care ...

Professional English to French Translation Services Ontario

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogDecember 11, 20171 comments

The Issue with Bad Translations How many times have you looked at a bilingual restaurant menu, the services directory in your hotel room, a company’s web site or product packaging and noticed spelling, grammar, or terminology mistakes?   How did that make you feel about ...

Professional Proofreading Services in Toronto

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogOctober 19, 20171 comments

  When deadlines approach and perfection is your goal, finding a second pair of eyes to polish your work is critical to a great first and lasting impression of your communications. Focus First Proofreading provides premium quality, professional English↔︎French proofreading, ...

The Importance of Proofreading

By Focus First ProofreadingBlogJuly 10, 20171 comments

You may think that skipping the services of proofreaders, when creating collateral for your business, is an easy way to save money. But you will quickly find that the money that you think you might be saving, may be slipping out of your grasp in the loss of prospective sales or ...