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Eight reasons why Twitter is good for YOUR business

May 17, 2012
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Tuesday saw the day the number of twitter users hit 10 million in the UK. The UK is now the fourth largest country for Twitter users worldwide behind the US, Brazil and Japan. Figures were released in sync with the celebration of their offices’ first year of operations in the UK. The social networking site [...]

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Italian university switches to English – Another step closer to a one language speaking world?

May 16, 2012
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The BBC reported that one of Italy’s leading universities, the Politecnico di Milano, is going to switch to the English language. The university has recently announced that from 2014 the majority of its degree courses, including all its graduate courses, will be taught and assessed exclusively in English rather than Italian. Globalisation and competition Globalisation [...]

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The Bank Holiday – carpets, melons and our love of the 3 day weekend

May 15, 2012
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From the celebration of carpets and melons to our generation’s love of the long three-day-weekend, I delve into the topic of Bank Holidays. The Bank Holiday A public or bank holiday is a legal holiday generally established by law and more often than not it is a non-working day in the year. They usually commemorate [...]

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Gmail or G-fail? Is Gmail’s auto-translate reliable?

May 14, 2012
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G-mail, last week introduced a new auto-translate feature which provides all users with a free service that instantly translates emails from one language to another. What is Automatic Machine Translation? The automatic message translation (AMT) tool functions by supplying users with an automatically prompted translation button for any message that Google recognises to be in [...]

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4 reasons why crowd sourcing translation is a bad idea for Pinterest

May 11, 2012
4 reasons why crowd sourcing translation is a bad idea for Pinterest

More and more social media websites are discovering that having translations on their sites is vital to their expansion. The new darling of social media, Pinterest, recently blogged that they wanted to crowd source translations of their site. While we of course applaud Pinterest for actively looking to translate their site, so that it can [...]

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First day at the office, the new Intern

May 9, 2012
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Today is my first day as an Intern, my first insight into the Marketing and PR real working world. After sitting in lecture theatres and nose diving into books for the past two years it really is a breath of fresh air to actually make sense of all that I have learnt. It is daunting [...]

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Thoughts of an Italian translation intern

May 3, 2012
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Simone Zanetti spent three months with Global Lingo as a foreign student intern. On his last day, Simone left us with an overview of his time with us and what he’d picked up about English culture. If you’d like to find out more about our translation internship programme read the job description and contact us [...]

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Korean Midsummer Night’s Dream shows off the glory of translation

May 2, 2012
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As part of the Cultural Olympiad, Shakespeare’s Globe are performing 37 plays in 37 languages. Kerry Lambeth author of the Globe to Globe Shakespeare blog went to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Korean, and tells us what it was like to experience the Bard in another language. A pig, rather than a bottom. Twins, [...]

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Singapore – one of the best places in the world to work

May 2, 2012
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Singapore is now the fourth most desirable place to work and live in the world according to a new survey by recruitment firm Hydrogen and business school ESCP Europe. One of the main reasons cited is the increase in multinational companies moving into Singapore over the past decade. Singapore is increasingly becoming the Silicon Valley [...]

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Roy Hodgson a truly multilingual England Manager

May 2, 2012
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Regardless of your thoughts about the appointment of Roy Hodgson as England Manager over Harry Rednapp, you have to take into account one skill Roy has over most Football Managers. He’s Multilingual. According to his Wikipedia page, Roy Hodgson can speak five languages (including his native English)  Norwegian, Swedish, German and Italian as well as [...]

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