Language Lines - Newsletter

April 2008

From the Editor

Welcome to the April edition of Language Lines. There'll be no "April Fools" here, just great articles on globalization, translation, and telephonic interpreting.

This issue of Language Lines brings you "The Web Globalization Report Card", a 196 page report on the best global websites and how to attract traffic. We also report on how best to do business with the Chinese and how telephonic interpreting is helping doctors better understand their foreign language speaking patients.

As always, our newsletter concludes with “Language Laughs” – a humorous look at some of the confusing situations that come up in the world of translation and languages.

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Adriana Nevin
Corporate Sales Manager
anevin@languagetranslation.com

 

Featured Articles

 

What are the Top Global Websites?

“The Web Globalization Report Card” answers this question and addresses other key issues in globalization and localization.

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Understanding Cultural Differences: A Key to Effective Business

Business customs vary greatly from country to country. Doing business in China, for example, takes a keen understanding of Chinese culture.

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Telephonic Interpreting and Health Care

A shortage of on-site interpreters is leading some clinics and hospitals to use telephonic interpreting. Can it replace face to face interpreting?

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Cross-cultural communication can bring about amusing errors and misunderstandings. Share a few language laughs with us…

Bad Translations "On Tour"

At Language Translation, Inc., we see examples of inaccurate translations almost daily. While these may seem funny to us, they are serious errors to the companies who wish to sell their products and services in the global market.

People in other countries sometimes go out of their way to communicate with their English-speaking tourists.

Here are a few examples of signs seen around the world:

Cocktail lounge, Norway:
Ladies are Requested Not to have Children in the Bar

At a Budapest zoo:
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS.
If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty

Hotel, Acapulco:
The Manager has Personally Passed All the Water Served Here

To see more examples of signs gone wrong, click here.

 

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