by Richard Brooks on June 6, 2013
Last month 200 or so people from all over the localization industry convened in the Gundle Restaurant Budapest to participate in the 5th memoQfest. It was an absolute honor for me to be the keynote presenter.
Kilgray have put some photos from the event on their photo stream on their facebook page. And the video summary came out today… great memories of a great time in one of the best cities in the world. It’s here in case you haven’t seen it…
That was memoQfest 2013 from Stick in Mind on Vimeo.
by Jonny Henchman on April 23, 2013
As part of our continued drive to increase co-operation between language companies, we worked alongside Dynamic Language in Seattle to provide an information delivery system for the Association of Language companies (ALC) of which we are both members.
Our aim, and that of the ALC, is to improve quality and systems within the translation industry by allowing a free flowing exchange of ideas and information. At present association members are really only able to network at conferences that take place a few times a year. Together with Dynamic language, K International sought to increase this contact opportunity to an always available feature of membership. [click to continue…]
by Jonny Henchman on March 19, 2013
In our last article, Alison noted how lazy we Brits are when it comes to preparing our Language knowledge when travelling abroad. From my own experience I’ve seen just how extensive this can be and I’m guilty as charged.
In both 2011 and 2012 I travelled to Tokyo for a combined total of 5 weeks. As a generally reserved chap I wanted to try and make sure that I could be polite and avoid any basic cultural faux pas. So I learnt how to say “please”, “thank you”, “excuse me” & gave myself a crash course in Japanese numeracy and most important of all, ensured I could order a beer. A bit of light reading from a guide book and off I went.
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