Musings of the Mad Wordsmith (and other things)

From Robert Lukes, Dakota A new website was launched last month with the intention of providing a means of communication between the Arabic-...

Chanin Balance, President & CEO of viaLanguage, on international marketing : - By the end of 2010 over 1 billion people will have access...

This from the Marketing Blog (1) English is not a predominant language in the Internet any more. As the Internet grows, so does the variety ...

Add three things together: Economic Migration (outsourcing/multinationals/professional) + the Internet population + social media marketing t...

I am immensely grateful to Lauren Nemec from Applied Languages for the posting on why it is almost impossible to translate marketing crap fr...

In the past, there were only two user interfaces in many corporations' cross country websites, that is, a native language website and an...

Julie Schwietert tells of how Leigh Shulman translated a novella written by one of her friends, an Iranian writer in exile, from Farsi into...

A bit about cultural competence in the business sector today from Wall Street Journal . I'll just quote the fun bits.. "Tom Bonkenb...

From Gulf Daily News A BILL which MPs said would have reinforced Arabic as Bahraini's official language was blocked by the Shura Council...

Here we go, thanks to One Hour Translations 1.Use the recipient’s correct title. 2. Use the correct greeting. 3. Introduce your company and ...

Just as an addendum to the previous post on the need to master Arabic before you attempt English (if you are an Arab, that is), here we go -...

Ahhhh.. I wish I had this clip when I was teaching my ITAMEL students! For all your English to Arabic and vice versa translations that will...