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Read enough news about language and marketing and you’re bound to come across this claim fairly often: In a few years, the dominant...
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- Sep 28, 2018
Skills Every Multi-Cultural Manager Needs
Today’s diverse work environment requires knowledge and insights from participants with diverse backgrounds. When the global market is...
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- Aug 31, 2016
Global Branding Initiatives: How to Avoid Translation-induced Headaches
You know what it takes to create the right brand for your company —the countless hours spent determining your positioning and defining...
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- Jun 15, 2015
Five misconceptions many Americans have about English
Being an American abroad has its challenges. One you might not expect is how Americans are perceived outside the US. Sure, we have this...
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- Jun 8, 2015
Is your education keeping you from being multilingual?
In a well-meaning opinion piece in James Madison University’s newspaper, The Breeze, sophomore Rachel Petty writes that after two months...
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- Apr 20, 2015
5 Times You Realize You’re Not Really Fluent in a Foreign Language
You could end up with a diploma or certificate of fluency in a foreign language, only to visit a country where the language is spoken and...
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- Apr 13, 2015
Some unexpected career benefits of bilingualism
It seems like most people would choose to be multilingual if they could. After all, in addition to making things like travel or...
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- Mar 23, 2015
American Insight into Negotiating
A negotiation involves two parties coming together to discuss the terms of a transaction or agreement and ideally, reaching a consensus. ...
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- Dec 1, 2014
Giving Thanks Can Be More Complicated Than You Think
Around Thanksgiving, our thoughts veer more than usual towards food, family, and, well, giving thanks. The first two of these can be...
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- Oct 20, 2014
Translating sign language in the 21st century
When I was in elementary school, I got to take a six-week sign language course. In that short time, we only memorized the alphabet and a...
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- Oct 6, 2014
What are the benefits of bilingualism?
It was a headline that immediately grabbed my attention: A Bilingual Brain is More Developed: Oui or No?. My interest went beyond my...
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- Jun 16, 2014
Boos and Whistles
On the news here in France the other day, there was footage of President François Hollande visiting a small town, where he was greeted by...
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- Jun 9, 2014
Does Body Language Matter?
In a recent article entitled “Ten workplace body language mistakes”, author Jacquelyn Smith claims that if you don’t follow certain body...
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- Apr 28, 2014
Could Robot Doctors be a Future Reality?
The first time I saw someone use Siri, I was amazed. How cool is it to have a sort of virtual personal assistant who almost instantly...
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- Mar 31, 2014
Yet Another Reason to Study Abroad
To many of us, studying abroad for a semester or academic year seems like a pretty great idea. There’s nothing like experiencing a...
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- Mar 17, 2014
Lost in Translation: The Murder of Deisy Garcia
There are many shocking things about the murder of Guatemalan immigrant Deisy Garcia and her two young daughters. For one thing, the...
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- Feb 17, 2014
Translation: Human vs. Machine
It’s easy to understand why people might use machine translations instead of human-generated ones. For one thing, a lot of translation...
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- Feb 3, 2014
The Disposable Translator
We live in a disposable world. The Germans, with their unique sense for the picturesque, call it “Wegwerfgesellschaft” – throwaway...
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- Nov 25, 2013
5 Things Technology Still Can’t Help Us With
No matter how impressive it gets (can you believe smartphones even exist?), technology does have its limits. Here are five things that...
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- Nov 18, 2013
What Not to Say at Work
Has a coworker ever said something that made you cringe? I’m not sure what I was expecting when I read this list of phrases that...