Nov 3 2010 in certified translation, conference interpreters, conference interpreting, conference interpreting services, court certified interpreter, language interpretation, language translation, Latest News, professional conference interpreter, professional language services, professional translation services by admin
As the saying goes, you learn something new every day. Today I learned something about the MICE industry. 250This post almost didn’t happen, because the headline that triggered it was entitled BRIDGING LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN THE MICE INDUSTRY. Now…
Nov 2 2010 in certified medical interpreter, certified medical translation, language translation, Latest News, medical interpreter, medical telephone interpreting services, medical translation, professional medical interpreter, professional medical interpreting, professional medical translation, professional translation services by admin
Nearly 500 candidates have signed up for the certification exams since their launch one year ago.The National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters has announced that after one year of its medical interpretation certification program, around …
Oct 28 2010 in certified chinese translation, certified document translation, certified french translation, french interpreting services, language translation, Latest News, professional chinese translation, professional french translation, professional language services, professional translation services, translation services by admin
A lot of other terms, actually – maybe like “dog” and “cat”?I learned the hard way about the complexities of saying merci. In France, when someone offers you something to eat or drink, it is considered ever-so-slightly impolite to say &ldquo…
Oct 28 2010 in etiquette, Etiquette, Customs and Travel Abroad, Latest News, russia by admin
Don’t ever sleep in a bear’s bed: not baby bear’s, not mummy bear’s and definitely not daddy bear’s. That is what Goldilocks has taught us. And never steal their porridge.
But it seems that bears are more sensitive then their big gruff exterior suggests; all they really want is a bit of appreciation. As local officials […]
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Oct 25 2010 in certified interpreting, certified translation services, language translation, Latest News, professional conference interpreter, professional conference interpreting services, professional document translation services, professional interpreting services, professional language translation, professional translation services, telephone interpreting services by admin
In the final post of our three-part series on evaluating language skills, we’ll take a look at assessing language interpretation competence.In the US, one of the most recognized language skill evaluation tools is the ILR, or Interagency Language Roun…
Oct 25 2010 in culture, Etiquette, Customs and Travel Abroad, japan, japanee, language, Latest News by admin
Reuters News Tokyo published an interesting idea from the Japanese National Tourism Organisation (JNTO) this month: provide tourists with a ‘free’ trip to Japan, find out what difficulties they experience and then try to fix them.
The plan would roughly enable one hundred English, Chinese and Korean tourists, all non-speakers of Japanese, to visit the major […]
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Oct 22 2010 in certified document translation, language translation, Latest News, machine translation, professional document translation, professional human translation, professional language services, professional language translation, professional translation services, telephone interpreting, twitter translation by admin
An award-winning author argues that Twitter facilitates cross-cultural communication more than other social networks.Everybody knows that the Internet has made cross-cultural communication easier. Social networking platforms have played a key role in a…
Oct 22 2010 in certified document translation, language translation, Latest News, machine translation, professional document translation, professional human translation, professional language services, professional language translation, professional translation services, telephone interpreting, twitter translation by admin
An award-winning author argues that Twitter facilitates cross-cultural communication more than other social networks.Everybody knows that the Internet has made cross-cultural communication easier. Social networking platforms have played a key role in a…
Oct 20 2010 in certified medical translation, health care interpreter, health care translation, language translation, Latest News, medical interpreting, medical telephone interpreting, over the phone health care interpreter, professional health care interpreter, professional medical language services, professional medical translation by admin
Navigating the US health system is difficult even for many English speakers. Language and cultural barriers add another layer of complexity.Health literacy – or the lack of it – is a crucial issue facing medical establishments today. As we …
Oct 20 2010 in Cultural Diversity, english, foreign, language, Latest News, learn by admin
With the well publicized case of Dr Daniel Ubani earlier this year has come the question as to how many other EU GPs practicing in the UK are ‘lost in translation’. Dr Ubani had “unlawfully killed” UK patient David Gray in 2008 after mistakenly giving him a large overdose of diamorphine.
Alongside this case came a […]
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