New Year, New Language: How to ensure you learn a new language in 2018
Ahh! A fresh new year is on the horizon! Such promise it holds! It starts out with a big party. Good food, friends and hope renewed. This...
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- Dec 15, 2017
How Patient Service Providers Can Better Serve Multilingual, Multicultural Patients
Have you or your family ever benefitted from patient services? Offered by many hospitals, clinics, and even pharmaceutical companies,...
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- Nov 15, 2017
The Key to Contemporary Pharma Marketing: Leave Old Marketing Tactics in the Dust
Look out the rear window. See what is being left in the dust—bent over coughing and wheezing as the marketing van speeds away? That’s...
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- Oct 30, 2017
Do powerful new healthcare advertising strategies work across cultures?
As you might suspect from those informative but uninteresting medical brochures, and print ads with more fine print than appeal, the...
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- Oct 15, 2017
Want an even more Successful Business? Offer Language Training!
Smart and successful companies are made up of strong leadership, innovation and positive, forward thinking strategies. They strive to...
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- Sep 29, 2017
Translators and Their Texts
With our mastery of languages, translators can seem like pretty powerful people. But there are some rules we have to follow. One of...
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- Sep 15, 2017
Diversity in Workplace: Pluses and Minuses
The earth is a large ball spinning in space, teeming with life, it’s very existence dependent upon diversity. It has different types of...
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- Aug 30, 2017
Eight things you need to know about advertising to bilinguals
Whether you’re targeting a demographic with incredible buying power, or trying to give a certain cachet to your brand, bilingual...
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- Jul 31, 2017
Tips for Expats Living and Working Abroad
Travel the world! Meet new people! Experience different languages, cultures, cuisines! Sounds idyllic, alluring. And while many of us...
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- Jul 14, 2017
5 Challenges Every Interpreter Faces
A professional certified interpreter’s job is to connect people through language using above-par language skills, diligence, perseverance...
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- Jun 30, 2017
Language Influences How We Think: Fact, or (Science) Fiction?
Sci-fi movies often require viewers to suspend at least some belief. Certain linguists and language lovers had to do this in a very...
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- Jun 15, 2017
Self-confidence is the memory of success: How to Overcome your Fear of Speaking a Foreign Language
Speaking a foreign language can be scary. All those words and grammatical rules floating around inside your head. Plus, speaking happens...
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- May 26, 2017
Latinx and The Linguistic Revolution
You may have heard that it is now perfectly acceptable to use “they” when referring to a single person. The old “he/she” rule is now...
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- May 18, 2017
Taking your Copywriting Global
Creating a great ad campaign and other materials to promote your business, isn’t easy. Adapting this material to foreign audiences is...
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- 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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- 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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- Feb 27, 2017
Translation, Multiple Meanings and Cookbooks
Last month, we discussed how multiple meanings matter immensely in translation. We gave quite a few examples such as how you can swim in...
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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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