In the first of a series about fascinating websites for language lovers, we will take a look at the site WordnikBeyond ongoing talk of machine translation, we mustn’t forget that the Internet also boasts a fountain of fun sites for word lovers. …

Health problems can be a nightmare for travelers, and finding an on-site interpreter isn’t always a viable option.In this blog, we often focus on language issues involving US healthcare facilities. But what about healthcare options for US citizens tr…

A Waikiki restaurant has stirred controversy by applying a mandatory 15% tip to diners who don’t speak English.A friend of mine has a son who is a waiter in a Parisian restaurant – and he is always delighted to see Americans sit down to eat in …

The university’s new Master of Arts in Interpreting and Translation Studies is designed largely to meet the need for health care translators and interpreters. Wake Forest University has just announced the opening of a new Master’s program in la…

Life in Britain is becoming more multi-cultural. We hear this view from the media, the government and experts all the time. But what does this ‘culture’ for which we are diversifying actually mean?
Collins English dictionary outlines culture as “the total of the inherited ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge, which constitute the shared bases of social […]

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Cross-cultural management is an endless topic, since every culture can be examined as it relates to any other culture. Have you ever thought about what type of managers Romanians make? I haven’t – or hadn’t – but the topic comes…

January 19th saw the official launch of Korean channel SBS-CNBC at a ceremony at the Ritz Carlton hotel. This channel will operate twenty-hour hours a day and focus on both global and specifically Korean business.
This channel is an important collaboration between the Asia Pacific branch of CNBC (Consumer News and Business Channel) and SBS (Seoul […]

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A New York video firm releases innovative, quality film material about health care and other social issues.Fanlight Productions would appear to work in an impossibly tiny niche: documentaries and DVDs about health care, disabilities, and workplace issu…