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Chinese Domain Names Approved By ICANN
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
ICANN has approved Chinese Domain Names to be registered using only chinese characters. Until now, web addresses have only been latin-based characters. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally approved the ...
Taking Your Website International with a Professional Translation Company
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
Businesses wishing to take their website international would benefit from a Professional Translation Company for their Website Localization. For many online start-up businesses, they aim to satisfy the local market initially. Still, their long term ...
Professional Legal Translation vs. Freelance Translation
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
A Professional Legal Translation needs to be totally accurate. A translation company will help you to achieve this over a freelance translator. When it comes to translating the day to day business documents, most people ...
Medical Translation Increased for Polish Patients
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
Medical Translation for Polish patients has increased recently according to government figures. Medical translation is a highly specialized discipline where the translator uses his or her knowledge in medicine to deliver a scientific message across ...
Language Translation: Transforming Your Website Business
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
Language Translation Services have seen a huge increase since the millenium mainly due to website businesses wanting to expand to global markets. The world today is no longer isolated due to the exponential growth in ...
EU Officials Entry Exam - UK Lobbying For Language Change
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
The government is challenging the rules for the EU Officials Entry Exam. At present candidates must use a second language rather than their mother tongue. The new British government is now challenging the rules set ...
China Launches Global English News Channel
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
Chinese news agency Xinhua has started broadcasting events in China in English. This move by Chinese government is primarily to combat media giants CNN and the BBC. The Chinese government owned news agency – Xinhua ...
Technical Translations Are Growing Quickly
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
Technical Translations are growing in popularity as businesses become more global. The need for technical documents to be translated exists from every industry and shows no sign of decreasing. The demand for technical translations is ...
England Manager Fabio Capello Needs Extra English Lessons
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
Everyone can benefit from extra English lessons, even England Manager Fabio Capello after England's loss to Germany in the World Cup 2010 For all the England fans watching the South African World Cup, it has ...
Translation Award Launched By Turkish and German Governments
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
A new Translation Award has been created between the German and Turkish Governments to help promote literary translations between the two languages. A new translation award has been created between two governments with the aim ...
Public Request for Changing the Draft Welsh Language Law
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
A group consisting of 14 different organisations has come together to publish an open letter to have changes made to the draft Welsh language law. The group wishing to make changes to the Welsh language ...
British Ex-Minister Says French Is a Useless Language
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
"Unless we have sufficient numbers of people who speak modern foreign languages - and not just the useless modern foreign languages like French" said British Minister Chris Bryant. With the changing world we live in, ...
Compulsory English Language Proficiency Exam for Immigrants Outside Of EU
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
Immigrants originating from outside the European Union will now have to take the compulsory English Language Proficiency Exam, introduced by the Coalition Government The newly elected Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition government has made it a ...
England Wayne Rooney to Watch His Foul Language in the World Cup
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
The England team striker Wayne Rooney will have to be careful in the World Cup as he is infamous for his foul language in English Premier League games. World Cup referees will be paying special ...
Shanghai World Expo Provides a Free SMS Translation Services
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
The World Expo 2010 is open to visitors in Shanghai. The Shanghai World Expo sponsor has rolled out a free SMS translation service for Mandarin speaking visitors. This article explains what it's all about. The ...
Russian Web Addresses
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
The Russian government has finally succeeded in introducing the use of Russian Cyrillic script in web addresses. However, underneath the success is years of hard work persuading the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ...
International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
The International English Language Testing System is an international standardised test of English language proficiency. Here are a few details about the IELTS. The International English Language Testing System or more commonly known as IELTS ...
Bulgarian Translator Awarded For Outstanding Foreign Literature Promotion
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
The Bulgarian translator, Anzelina Penceva was awarded the Premia Bohemica for her outstanding promotion of Czech literature at the 16th International Book World Prague Fair last Friday. Anzelina Penceva has translated many Czech books into ...
Welsh Assembly Translation Sparks another Round of Debate
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
The decision whether to translate all the English speeches delivered during the Welsh assembly into Welsh sparks another round of debate. The latest independent review supports that any English written record of proceedings should no ...
Advertising Bloopers
By Steve Greenwood · 13 years ago
Advertising Bloomers happen when your Advertising translation doesn't translate it's intended message quite as expected. Take some advice from these global companies on how not to do it. When businesses release new products into foreign ...