by Asif Afzal | May 22, 2020 | Doing business, Language, Localization, Translation
Our digital age offers amazing opportunities for small businesses to operate on an international scale without the need for the substantial financial expenditure that was once required. However, this ease can also encourage small firms to attempt the leap to global...
by Asif Afzal | May 15, 2020 | Doing business, Interpreting, Language, Translation
Multinational corporations are used to participating in multilingual meetings, conferences and events in today’s international marketplace but the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we share in these occasions. Before Covid-19, participants would travel the globe...
by Asif Afzal | May 8, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
The European Union, through the CEF (Connecting Europe Facility), is offering grants of between €0.2 to 0.8m to developers of language tools such as, collaborative language resource projects, and Collaborative language tools projects. The total budget earmarked for...
by Asif Afzal | Apr 30, 2020 | Doing business, Language, Localization, Translation
Modern technology allows businesses to sell to customers anywhere in the world but this comes with a problem – how do you effectively communicate your brand, and products, to audiences that don’t speak your native language? The answer is – a multilingual translation...
by Asif Afzal | Mar 27, 2020 | Doing business, Language, Localization, Translation
Making the decision to take your company global often means operational, official and documentation changes need to be put in place such as, modifications to packing or ingredients, registration with foreign government organisations, or translation of websites,...
by Asif Afzal | Mar 20, 2020 | Language, Translation
Arabic literature in translation has a rich history spanning more than 1500 years across diverse and complex subjects. For many of these years, translated Arabic texts were highly sought after and ownership was a matter of pride and wealth. Unfortunately, the last few...
by Asif Afzal | Mar 13, 2020 | Doing business, Language, Localization, Translation
The world seems to have become a very small place over the last few decades – global businesses, international workforces and worldwide financial transactions appear, at first glance, to be oblivious of country borders, language barriers and geographical distance, but...
by Asif Afzal | Mar 6, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
Interpreters are frequent visitors to high profile conferences and ceremonies but often remain behind the scenes, or inconspicuously hidden in plain sight, however, this year’s Oscars saw interpreter Sharon Choi centre front on the stage as she translated for Oscar...
by Asif Afzal | Feb 28, 2020 | Interpreting, Language, Translation
Edinburgh Airport have just announced the installation of a translation device capable of translating speech into more than 70 languages. According to the Edinburgh Evening News, the airport is the first in the UK to install such a device, with the aim of helping...
by Asif Afzal | Feb 20, 2020 | Language, Localization, Translation
Facebook have, once again, had to apologise for mistakes made by its machine translation after it mistranslated the name of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping. The inaccurate translation occurred when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, posted...
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