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In conversation with Ewa Zawadzka of ZOO Digital
MultiLingual met with Ewa Zawadzka, newly appointed head of dubbing for the EMEA region for ZOO Digital, for an enlightening, thought provoking discussion about...
Weekly Shorts | May 28, 2021
ZOO Digital Appoints New Head of Dubbing, EMEA
Ewa Zawadzka has stepped into the role of ZOO Digital’s head of dubbing for the company’s operations...
Weekly Shorts | May 21, 2021
Apple Launches Sign Language Interpreting Program
Among numerous accessibility updates, Apple launched SignTime earlier this week, a program designed to make AppleCare and Retail Customer...
Weekly Shorts | May 14, 2021
Association of Translation Companies Releases LO-C 30 Report
The United Kingdom-based Association of Translation Companies (ATC) has recently released their research on the role of...
Weekly Shorts | May 7, 2021
Portuguese Diplomat Pushes for Official Language Status at United Nations
Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, said in a press conference that he...
An Introduction to Religious Language
An Introduction to Religious Language is exactly what it purports to be: a text introducing readers to theolinguistics, or the study of religious language.
Buyer’s Guide
BUYER'S GUIDE
Because you are holding MultiLingual magazine, you may be looking for a solution for your translation or localization needs. This Buyer's Guide is...
Calendar
UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS
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GlobalSaké The PARLAmINT: Multilingual content strategy: transcreation,...
Make localization part of the experience
“We are waiting for translation,” “let’s launch in English only,” “let’s just Google Translate.” As localization managers, we’ve heard them all. We’ve all experienced the frustration of being the last one to know about a new feature being launched globally. Well, I wanted to change that.
Columns
COLUMNS
Managing Employees as an HR Expert
by Terena Bell
Who are the people who make interpreting happen? Ask people on the street — or in our...
You’re Talking to my Dad
“Hey there.” “Good morning, Pushpinder Lubana.” “Hello, Ms. Lubana.” “Welcome, Dr. Lubana.” “Hi Pushpinder.” These greetings are a sample of what I might encounter on a given day, both online and in-person. Some fit perfectly and others may not fit well at all, either in the tone or the level of formality or informality, given my cultural upbringing and the context of the interaction.
Focus Articles
FOCUS ARTICLES
Tourism Inside a COVID Haven
by Jessica Roland
Before last year, Donny Yang, a tour guide in Taiwan, spent four to six months traveling internationally...
Featured Reader
I joined a startup in 1998 that was globalization engineer-ing focused. Besides being their first sales person, I got to lead partnership efforts, which gave me an excellent introduction to many influential industry leaders.
Tourism Inside a COVID Haven
Before last year, Donny Yang, a tour guide in Taiwan, spent four to six months traveling internationally every year. He was in his home in Taipei so seldom that it made sense to rent it out, so he signed a five-year rental agreement and started his travels. He was in India when the pandemic started, and he had to return home… even if he didn’t have a literal house to go to.
Weekly Shorts | April 30, 2021
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to Support U.S. Language Education
America’s Languages Working Group has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,...
Weekly Shorts | April 23, 2021
RWS Revenues Set to Exceed $1 Billion in 2021
UK-based language services provider (LSP) RWS is projected to earn more than $1 billion in 2021...
Weekly Shorts | April 16, 2021
European Commission Appoints New Director General for Interpretation Genoveva Ruiz Calavera has stepped into the role of Director General of the Directorate General for Interpretation at the European Commission (DG SCIC, the French-language acronym for the department). Ruiz Calavera began working in the role on April 1
Weekly Shorts | April 9, 2021
Former TrustPoint CEO joins XRTF advisory board
The former CEO of TrustPoint Translations, Claes H. Holm, has been revealed as the latest member of XTRF’s...
Weekly Shorts | April 2, 2021
XTRF launches advisory board to bolster business strategy
Translation management platform provider XTRF has announced the creation of a new advisory board appointed to support...
Boostlingo adds Boostlingo Integration for Zoom
Boostlingo, a San Francisco, California-based provider of SAAS-based interpreting technology solutions for global language access, has just announced its addition to the Zoom App...
Weekly Shorts | March 26, 2021
Nimdzi launches ranking of Top 100 LSPs
Nimdzi Insights has just released its long-awaited report ranking the top 100 language service providers by revenue. The...
Women-led Language I/O raises $5 Million in its First Funding Round
Language I/O announced on March 23 that it has raised over $5 million in A round funding. The women-led, Wyoming-based company had been bootstrapped...
Weekly Shorts | March 19, 2021
Memsource partners with Gridly Game CMS to deliver localization workflow for game studios
A recent Memsource-Gridly integration allows game companies to localize game content faster,...