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The Importance of Testing for Second Language Skills
Language proficiency in the workplace is very important as we become more and more diverse as a global economy. To stay competitive with your industry, it’s important to continue diversifying your company and reaching out on a more global scale. To do this you need to...
Why Being A Vulnerable Leader is Worth it
Being vulnerable is not a weakness, especially as a leader. Did we throw you off there? We know it’s not a common conception to think that being vulnerability especially when you are someone’s boss is a good thing, but it’s actually a GREAT trait. Here’s the thing –...
Why Social Responsibility is Important as a Business
As individuals we look at finding ways to contribute to our communities and how we can better our own lives and those of others. Sometimes, what we really want to do to contribute to our communities isn’t possible without the help of businesses. Social...
The Importance of Mental Health In The Workplace
Did you know that you spend over 50% of your waking hours at work? There is so many other parts of our lives that need to be worked on outside of work to be fully fulfilled. Because many of us don’t take the time to work on those other slices of the pie our mental...
Top 5 Reasons You Should Translate Your Website in 2020
When starting a business and getting your website complete it’s exciting. You finally nailed down the one thing that will give your customers or clients a clear representation of your brand. Ultimately, your website is about to be one of the main sellers of your...
5 Tips for First-Time Translation Freelancers
Becoming a freelancer in the language market can be pretty intimidating when you are just getting started. There are so many rabbit holes you can dive down to learn what you need to get started and begin making money. To help you avoid that rabbit hole, we’ve gathered...
Working as a Freelancer in the Translation Industry
Is Being a Freelancer Worth It? If being your own boss, having freedom and not having a cap on your salary is what you are looking for, then YES, it is absolutely worth it. You’ll have the freedom to work where you want, take on as much work as you want and so much...
Lesson Learned
Today I googled ‘ Zoom and Hacking’. And I came up with these highlighted stories. https://www.news18.com/news/tech/zoom-security-issues-were-so-many-that-even-other-companies-paid-hackers-to-fix-flaws-2586377.html and...
COVID-19: A Message From Our CEO
Like you, we continue to monitor the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation. We want to assure you that we have already implemented measures to ensure the well-being of our employees and to minimize service disruptions to our customers. We are mindful also of all our...
Christmas Language History
Whether you say Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noel, Happy Hanukah or some other version of the holiday greeting, they all bring a similar festive vibe to the conversation. Christmas language has a long and intricate history. In fact, almost every language has...
Video Conference Interpreters?
Top reasons to consider using video conferencing or a webinar for your next meeting 1. Cost and time efficiency With video conferencing or webinars you only need about an hour in the most to allow everyone to log into their account, and settle in for the ‘meeting’....
Top Miss-translations
When Signs Go "Bad" - In China, there is a restaurant called “Translate server error”. The owner attempted to translate the Chinese word for restaurant into English but the machine translation produced an error. Not knowing the difference, the restaurant printed the...
Everyone has their WHY
Having the courage to go after big goals and dreams is HARD. Translation: it’s scary and frustrating and sometimes even miserable. But the reason we don't give up is because we have found our WHY, which is bigger then ourselves. My personal why has been the privilege...
Ema Dantas Speaks at One Woman Fearless Conference
The "One Woman Fearless Conference" is an event that unites women around the world who are letting go of fear to create the life of their dreams. Ema Dantas, President and CEO of Language Marketplace speaks about her experience of letting go of her own fears...
Data Protection and Security
It has become more important than ever to properly secure your documents. Through years of experience being the CSO (Company Security Officer) at Language Marketplace , one of my top priorities is document security. I have seen many files sent to us on the ‘clear’,...
A Case for French
A case for the French language In a global economy, communication in several languages is a key differentiation between the success of a business or its failure. Being able to communicate in more than one language is also an asset to anyone looking for a job. When I...
French Language Anxiety
With each passing day I get closer to traveling to Papua New Guinea to climb the Carstensz Pyramid, a twenty plus day journey to its peak, I am filled with excitement – of both kinds! Included with all the fun and anticipation I am experiencing as I prepare for this...
Training Climb for Charity – Mount Rainier
"How did it go?”. This was the question I got asked over and over again, and I can’t blame my co-workers and family and friends. “My training session was ok.” That is my short answer. However, I learned quite a bit. I learned for example that I can totally sleep in a...
Multilingualism
Multilingualism In today’s global economy, multilingualism is the norm, not the exception. Professional translation services for any business within our global economy is a necessity, not merely a perk to prospective customers. The United Nations, on its Seventy-First...
Guidelines for Editing Translations
As translators and interpreters, we often say that our job is to be inconspicuous —you, the reader, shouldn’t notice that the text was translated. And when we are interpreting then you should think of us a playback tape recorder! Editing a translated document requires...
Making Philanthropy Central to our Translation Business Model
We make philanthropy an important part of our business model. Giving back to our community has several benefits and here are just a couple of them. First, it benefits the organization we choose to donate to, and performing a charitable act without the expectation of...
Tok Pisin, the Language of Papua New Guinea
Tok Pisin is one of the three national languages of Papua New Guinea. As I prepare to climb the Carstensz Pyramide in the Fall of 2017, I have started to make myself I cheat chit to travel with. Tok Pisin is a form of Melanesian Pidgin English which was established in...
Translating for Films or Movies: Important Consideration
Translating subtitles for film and television is challenging for a number of reasons. A translator’s objective is to preserve the meaning of the story; the moment a word, phrase, or gesture gets lost in translation, the entire scene can be wrongly interpreted—a poorly...
In what language is the label written in?
A recent visit to a Metro supermarket left a shopper wondering in what language was the label written in. The culprit: The Portuguese Style Frozen Vegetable Mix, from Ferma is the cause of the bewilderment. Language is written in a store label not clear in ANY...