Choosing a Translation Vendor for your Market Research Surveys
Let’s say you have a forty page, 300-question survey, written in Portuguese by a colleague in your Lisbon office. It needs to be...
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aiaTranslations
- Apr 24, 2017
Being an Expat: The Rewards
Reasons for becoming an expat or expatriate, a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their birth,...
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- Mar 28, 2017
Two for One: How Foreign Language Training Can Help You Gain and Retain Clients
The shifting landscape of language and immigration across the globe, cultural diversity and global market needs people who walk through...
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- Mar 20, 2017
Translation for Advertising: Bring in Your Crazy Aunt
In a world teeming with different language and cultures, what does it take to reach the international consumer? What is the role of...
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- Feb 28, 2017
Learning a New Language? Give it 10,000 Hours.
Many people wonder how long it takes to learn a second language. Well, the answer is about 10,000 hours. Just ask Malcolm Gladwell,...
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- Jan 30, 2017
Translating Words with Multiple Meanings
You can crash an automobile, the Stock Market, a party you were not invited to or cymbals together to make a sound. You can describe a...
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- Jan 20, 2017
The Body: A Vital Part of Language
As linguists, we often talk about languages – how to learn them, tricks to retain them and the culture that is connected to them – all in...
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- Dec 26, 2016
Translation’s Gender Issues
Ah, to be a translator, living in two worlds simultaneously – two tongues, two thought processes, two cultures, two ways of seeing the...
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- Dec 19, 2016
Why You Should Provide Training for Your Employees: Cross-Cultural Training
Last month we discussed the importance of employee language training. Besides improving employee talent, the benefits also include...
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- Nov 28, 2016
Why You Should Provide Language Training for Your Employees (Two Part Series)
For exponential business growth In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, knowing the languages involved affords companies more...
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- Nov 21, 2016
Poor Quality Translation Costs More In the End
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” When it comes to translation there is no...
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- Oct 31, 2016
Is Technology Helping Us Overcome Language Barriers?
Remember the days when machine translations were confined to fictional characters such as Star Wars’ C3PO, a droid fluent in over 6...
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- Oct 28, 2016
Stop Translating in your Head: The Key to Learning a Foreign Language
The road to foreign language fluency is never short and not particularly easy. There is just so much to learn— verb conjugations,...
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- Sep 30, 2016
Increase Your Language Learning by Listening to the Radio
Have you ever wanted to continue your foreign language classes when you are not attending class? Why not turn on the radio? Listening to...
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- Sep 29, 2016
How Different Languages Affect our Decision Making and Morals
When we speak in a language other than our native tongue is our moral compass askew? And, if people do have different moraIs when they...
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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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- Aug 1, 2016
Translating Your Website? Keep These Tips in Mind
First, do your research Knowing your core target markets is the first step. Learning cultures, trends, beliefs, and the like, is almost...
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- Jun 29, 2016
Prescriptions can be Hazardous to your Health
An anemic patient is unable to recover because he isn’t taking the prescribed amount of the supplement given to him by his doctor because...
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- Jun 6, 2016
Untranslatable expressions of love that we can all understand
If there’s ever a good reason to learn languages – or at least to look at lists of vocabulary words, this is it: You never know what you...
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- May 30, 2016
Personality traits of a great translator
There are many translators out there. Some aren’t even human! Of course, that variety doesn’t mean that every translator works the same...
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