Case Studies

The “MK Midnight Moo”Charity

by Tanguy July 28, 2011 Case Studies

K International takes its corporate social responsibility seriously. We believe all business has an inherent responsibility to its staff, its partners, the environment and the community that goes way beyond the creation and sustainability of profits. We support as many charities as we can. We run for cancer research, we make cakes and sell them [...]

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Archive of English Accents

by Tanguy July 25, 2011 Case Studies

English is the third most commonly spoken native language in the world, and if you count people who speak it as a second language, it’s probably the language with the most speakers overall. However, that doesn’t mean that everyone speaks it in the same way – far from it! Even among native English speakers, there [...]

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French: The Language of Love

by Tanguy July 22, 2011 Case Studies

French is often called “the language of love,” and for one American couple, that’s quite literally true. According to NewsTimes.com, French was the spark that ignited an enduring romance between Pamela Saltzman, a teacher from New Jersey, and Badreddine Ahtchi, a graduate student from Algeria. The two met after being dragged out to a bar [...]

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Irregular Verbs Don’t Like Us

by Tanguy July 20, 2011 Case Studies

Nobody likes irregular verbs. When it comes to learning a new language, these verbs dance to their own drummer, running roughshod over all of the conjugation rules you worked so hard to memorize. Even native speakers sometimes have trouble with them. As Dr. Spock would say: “Humans make illogical decisions. So, why do these “illogical” [...]

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Arab Spring Social Media

by Tanguy July 12, 2011 Case Studies

We already know the importance of social media in marketing, brand awareness and communication. Social media now has a major role in democracy and in the fight against repression. In the recent Arab Spring revolution people used social media to communicate about the facts, to organise struggle against tyranny and to raise awareness worldwide. The [...]

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Multilingual DVD Production

by Richard Brooks July 8, 2011 Case Studies

This page is a step by step guide how we made a Sign Language DVD for the Scottish Prison Service. The Project The brief was to produce an interactive DVD containing induction material for a collection of prisons in Scotland. The Scottish Prison Service wanted the DVD to form part of the induction process that [...]

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Twitter is Changing Language

by Tanguy June 17, 2011 Case Studies

One of the most intimidating parts of learning to use Twitter is the lingo. Confronted by words like “retweet,” “hashtag” and the “Twittersphere,” new users often find themselves wondering: “What language are these people speaking?” English, as it turns out – Twitter is just changing the way we speak it, adding new vocabulary words and [...]

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Jersey Shore goes to Italy

by Tanguy June 3, 2011 Case Studies

For two years, MTV’s reality show Jersey Shore has been offending Italian-American advocacy groups (and intelligent life-forms in general) with its portrayal of a group of young Italian-American adults chosen primarily for their addiction to tanning salons, ability to consume large amounts of alcohol and propensity for drama. Now, MTV has decided to help the [...]

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Translating the Census

by Caroline Mikolajczyk February 22, 2011 Case Studies

After 4 years of hard work with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), we are proud to announce that all the Census material has been translated in 56 languages, from the original questionnaires to the informational leaflets without forgetting the multilingual language cards.

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