Aug 3 2010 in colour, cross cultural, culture, Intercultural & Cross-Cultural News, Latest News by admin
Forget chocolates and flowers, guys. If you want to make a big impression on the opposite sex, try adding red to your daily wardrobe. Lots of red.
The color apparently makes a man more attractive, more powerful and more sexually desirable to women, according to a study appearing in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. The research […]
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Aug 2 2010 in certified translation, conference interpreting, court interpreting, document translation, interpretation services, language translation, Latest News, localization services, professional translatino, telephone interpreting, translation services by admin
Our first new blog category deals with the main activities of language service providers: translation, localization and interpretation.We’ve just completed restructuring our blogs to better reflect what we do and what we write about. Language Tra…
Jul 30 2010 in culture, language, Latest News, Learn a Language by admin
Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express?
Take “Humpty Dumpty sat on a…” Even this snippet of a nursery rhyme reveals how much languages can differ from one another. […]
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Jul 30 2010 in business, culture, International Business News, japan, japanese, language, Latest News by admin
The New York Times covers a fascinating story on how Japanese companies are outsourcing calls centres abroad in order to save costs. However, the companies used have no other choice other than to hire Japanese staff in order to deal with the clients at the end of the phone. Why? Because they cannot do without […]
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Jul 29 2010 in conference interpreting, interpreter, interpreting services, language interpreting, language services, language translation, Latest News, professional interpreting services, professional translation, telephone interpreting, translation services by admin
Helping with media coverage is all in a day’s work for baseball interpreters.English is a second language for a number of major league baseball players. So naturally, interpreters have come to play an important role in helping players with limited En…
Jul 28 2010 in certified language translation, certified medical interpreter, certified medical translation, certified spanish medical translation, language translation, Latest News, medical interpreting, medical translation, medical translation services, professional medical interpreter, telephone medical interpreting by admin
Much is written about the need for skilled medical interpreters, but translators of medical documents are also in demand.In the medical field, document translation is highly complex. As with any type of translation, translators must be excellent writer…
Jul 27 2010 in arabic interpreter, arabic translation, certified spanish translation, chinese translation, conference interpreting, language translation, Latest News, professional translation, telephone interpreting, thai translation, translation services by admin
The simplest form of communication when travelling in foreign countries may be a picture book.Summer is travel time, and trips to far-away locales are increasingly frequent. For many Americans, “going abroad” used to mean a trip to Mexico o…
Jul 27 2010 in arabic interpreter, arabic translation, certified spanish translation, chinese translation, conference interpreting, language translation, Latest News, professional translation, telephone interpreting, thai translation, translation services by admin
The simplest form of communication when travelling in foreign countries may be a picture book.Summer is travel time, and trips to far-away locales are increasingly frequent. For many Americans, “going abroad” used to mean a trip to Mexico o…
Jul 27 2010 in google, Latest News, translation, translation memory, Website Internationalization, wikipedia by admin
Google have set their sites on developing their translation software. Over the years the company has clocked onto the potential the world wide web holds especially in non-English speaking countries. The launch of many innovative translation tools has already seen it trailblazing ahead of the likes of Yahoo! and Microsoft in terms of engaging the […]
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Jul 27 2010 in Cultural Diversity, immigrants, language, Latest News, portsmouth, translation by admin
The police in Portsmouth have taken an interesting approach to communicating with non-English speaking shoppers. As part of an initiative by Plymouth Against Retail Crime (Parc), translation packs are being given to large stores, with some going to police patrol cars used around the city centre too.
The packs contain 13 cards, each carrying phrases […]
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