At Today Translations, we are delighted to hear that approximately 600 local Afghan interpreters who risked their lives working alongside British troops during the war will finally be supported by the British government. The focus must now be on how we can make maximum use of the skills and talents that these linguists will bring to the UK.
Last week we blogged about our office rule surrounding the Eurovision song contest: if your country wins, you must bring a cake into the office to celebrate. So, who took the cake in Europe's Favourite TV Show last weekend? With Denmark bagging the top prize for the third time in the country's history, we're disappointed to say that for the second year in a row, there was no cake in the Today Translations office.
A major initiative Ive worked on with the Fraud Advisory Panel for the past 18 months revealed how awfully difficult and distressing it is for victims to recover their losses following a fraud. Hope is now to be found in a series of 16 recommendations that were published today. Having spent most of my life trying to protect citizens and businesses from the cruel, cunning actions of criminals it is not something I could drop when the time came to surrender my police powers.
At Today Translations we work with talented linguists from all over the world, many of whom play musical instruments, including several members of our in-house team.This got us thinking: is there a connection between music and languages? According to a study carried out on over 64 adults by Georgetown University Medical Center, the answer is yes.
I advise on security at Today Translations, a leading translation company. They don't use cold calling thankfully. This weekend I was reminded of one reason why I don't like it. Most Saturday mornings I get one of those millions of scam phone calls from a rather polite lady with an Indian accent, telling me she was from a computer centre that monitors my home PC and that they had detected lots of errors on my system.
Have you ever thought about how movie titles are translated across the globe? Titles are the first thing the audience comes across when movies are released, so it is vital that translated movie titles convey the message in a faithful yet catchy and creative way. If you look at translated movie titles more closely, you will notice that it can be divided in 3 categories.
We are delighted to announce that Jurga Zilinskiene, managing director of Today Translations, will be speaking at Forum One in Lithuania, one of Eastern Europe's flagship business events. The forum's keynote speaker will be Sir Richard Branson, Britain's most renowned serial entrepreneur and the founder of Virgin Group.
Jurga Zilinskiene, IT geek and managing director of Today Translations, a leading London-based translation company, has been featured in the latest issue of the online business magazine, The Next Women. Although one of the most popular languages today isn't even spoken out loud, it is based on the English tongue and is seen on desktops and smartphones every day.
We have all heard the paradigm that more than half (55 per cent to be precise) of our communication is shaped by body language. Our words are constantly supported or contradicted by facial expressions, hand movements, and body postures. However, do we pay enough attention to cultural gestures when communicating with international partners?
We became giddy with excitement and curiosity when we came across the Tenner scheme, a competition encouraging young people to launch a business initiative on the back of only a £10 note. The Tenner, which is spearheaded by Young Enterprise, the UK's largest business and enterprise education charity,
