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This Blog records a few of the tasks I have embarked on and achieved in my first week as an intern – a role which endeavours to expose and secure Global Lingo’s position as the go to people for language services. Monday – New girl, always a daunting prospect My first morning at Global Lingo [...] { 0 comments } 
Clumsy and incorrect words are littering the English language. According to Tony Thorne, Language consultant at King’s College, London and his article written in The Sun, there is a growing trend of slang and misused words which clutter language today. ‘‘That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate’’ Actually the ball wasn’t on a [...] { 1 comment } 
Britain’s deficit of foreign language speakers is costing the economy £17 billion a year according to research by the Education and Employers Taskforce for Collins Language. An article by Oliver Moody in The Times, (behind paywall) highlights the consequences of fewer people learning foreign languages. Employers grumble that recruits are either inexperienced in working with [...] { 0 comments } 
Blimey, what a start! This is the headline from The Daily Mail written by David Thomas. David appears to be a man of the world, he is by his own admission multi-lingual, well travelled and he has part Welsh and part Norwegian heritage. So why does he reason that the world should speak only English? [...] { 0 comments } 
We’re proud to announce that Global Lingo has been appointed language and translation partner to my360plus. Simon Walker, director my360plus, explains why Global Lingo was chosen. At my360plus, we’re delighted to have Global Lingo on board as our language and translation services partner. My360plus is an online coaching and development system that collects 360 degree [...] { 0 comments } 
It’s time to start making tracks… After two months of constant blogging, tweeting, news reading, proof reading and press releasing, my time at Global Lingo has come to an end. Joining the team as a PR and Marketing Intern, I was initially nervous of entering the social world. As an avid social media fan, I [...] { 1 comment } 
2012 is the Chinese year of the Dragon. So we thought it would be a little bit of fun to look at the team in the Leeds office to see if we could shine any light on their characters. Ox – Richard Oxen are often said to be born leaders, who are believed to inspire [...] { 0 comments } 
This great entertaining article on The Tyee demonstrates how the English language is used and turned around in Japan. The Japanese have a great love of the English language but to a native speaker the usage can be a little alarming. However, looked at with a forgiving eye their use of English is quite charming [...] { 0 comments } 
Machine translation strikes again It seems the Malaysian Ministry of Defence could do with taking some advice when it comes to translation. The Ministry has been put in the limelight for its mis-translated and comical content in English which has now been taken down. The translations… Supposedly composed using Google Translate, the mis-translated website included [...] { 0 comments } 
Wayne Rooney was interviewed by La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper. Clearly Mr Rooney can’t speak Italian so the interview was translated into Italian for publication. For some reason the original interview was then ‘back translated’ from this Italian translation and published as the English version of the interview. So far so good you might think. [...] { 2 comments } |
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