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Giving a boost to Britain’s SMEs isn’t about charity

Today (30 Nov 11), Jurga Zilinskiene, MD of Today Translations, chaired a roundtable discussion regarding fair and sustainable supply chain management. In attendance were representatives from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS), UK Trade & Invest (UKTI), SMEs from various sectors and major city buyers such as Avanti Communications Group plc.

World’s first Glaswegian interpreter

When we advertised for Glaswegian interpreters back in October 2009, lots of people thought we'd had one wee dram o' the hard stuff tae many. But we were serious and we did make the national press in fact, we were the most popular story for most of the day on the BBC News site and the subject of live interviews on BBC Radio. We even aired live on peaktime Scottish TV News.

Is this the world’s most romantic word?

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - "Amour", the French word for love, has been voted the most romantic word in the world in a pre-Valentine's Day survey of language experts. It narrowly beat "amore", the Italian word for love, although Italian was named the world's most romantic language. Italian words also dominated the top places in the list of most romantic words.

Disappearing languages

Losing Our World's Languages At Today Translations we have taken a serious interest in the way language is used around the world and how it evolved to be so. When we recently learned that every 14 days a language dies we were shocked to say the least and even more devastated to hear that by 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth many of them not yet recorded may disappear

Foreign footballers face fresh challenges in Premier League

Foreign footballers from outside the EU will be barred from joining Premier League clubs from October unless they can speak simple English under new immigration rules. The English test forms part of a points-based system that will cut the number of immigrants entering Britain by about 20,000 a year. But ministers have decided to exempt performers at specific festivals, including Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Glastonbury, Wimbledon and the London Marathon.

Dissolving Customer Support Communication Barriers

Being able to sell to a diverse customer base is one thing, but it's just the first step in an ongoing process of fostering successful customer interactions if winning loyalty is your goal. It might be daunting to engage call center representatives with language translator skills, but many customers are thrilled to find support information in their native tongue online. Self-service is the ticket.

Better safe than Suri

What exactly is in that exotic baby name? Now you can find out with a Today Translations Name Translation Audit Celebrities and their crazy baby names: they do love 'em. And why not? Which is all very well when those names are pretty well-understood by the public at large. There's not much wrong with the name Apple, daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, or Geri Halliwell's Bluebell Madonna.

What’s in a name?

LONDON: A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment. Celebrity couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they'd known that it means 'pickpocket' in Japanese, 'turned sour' in French, and 'horse mackerels' in Italian, suggest Today Translations.