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China is expected to overtake the US in terms of global business very soon. So Chinese is the language to use if you want to trade internationally. Chinese has at it’s core 20,000 characters so learning it can seem very difficult. This great TEDTalk by ShaoLan Hsueh shows that you can quickly learn basic characters [...] { 0 comments } 
I’m a really big fan of Dr Who - every Saturday the house goes silent as the whole family sits down and escapes in time and space with the Doctor and his companions. So when I found a Gallifreyan translator I was very excited. Gallifrey is the Doctor’s long destroyed home planet, once the home of [...] { 0 comments } 
I was lucky to be invited to attend last night’s Insider International Trade Awards at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, along with Stephen Hale, our Head of Translation Production. I think we managed to brush up pretty well! It was really great to hear how businesses – large and small – have worked hard not [...] { 0 comments } 
Global Lingo provided translations and other linguistic services to Pitmans LLP, a full service law firm based in the Thames Valley, for Pitmans Business Immigration (PBI) website, PBIvisa.com. The site provides specialist expertise to guide businesses and individuals through the often challenging world of Business Visas and UK Work Permits. We supplied Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese and [...] { 0 comments } 
A report published by the OECD warns that businesses without a language strategy risk losing contracts. The report found that SMEs lost a large amount of business because of poor language skills. Here are the sobering statistics 11% of respondents said that their businesses lost contracts due to a lack of language skills. Contracts worth [...] { 0 comments } 
On the face of things you could be forgiven for thinking that Translation and Localisation, or Localization if you prefer the American spelling, are the same thing. There are however differences. Which service you need depends greatly on how you plan to use your final translated documents. Translation is the process of taking a text [...] { 0 comments } 
Our office in Cluj opening coincided nicely with the Spring celebrations in Romania. So we asked Diana Lupu one of our new team in Romania to tell us more about their Spring celebrations. The beginning of the year is quite festive in Romania. There are several holidays in February and March, relating to love, fertility, [...] { 0 comments } 
The back end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 have been Global Lingo’s biggest months since we began transcribing and translating way back in 2006. To aid our increased growth we’ve invested in our team bringing in only the best people, who have drive, passion, and of course a love of language to help keep us [...] { 0 comments } I’m a big Dr Who fan. I’ve followed the series since I was young and managed to get my children to love it too. Dr Who is a very English phenomenon with little nods to English culture dotted all the way though, so I wonder how well the time travelling series will translate. Dr Who [...] { 0 comments } 
Blenheim Palace, the World Heritage Site and Visitor Attraction in Oxfordshire, promotes itself to an international market. As part of this activity the Palace attends annual sales missions at various international destinations with Visit Britain, including Destination China, promoting to Chinese and Japanese tourists. At Destination China 2012 Blenheim Palace met with delegates and agents [...] { 0 comments } |
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