What is International Women’s Day?
March 8th is dedicated to honoring women around the world. The International Women’s Day 2020 theme is #EachforEqual. Everyone’s sights are set on an equal world that will empower us all.
Employee Spotlight: Simon Goodwin, Translation Services Project Manager | LC
Welcome to the fourth installment in our Language Connections employee spotlight interview series! We’ll be talking to employees about their experiences working at this language service provider, their passions for localization, translation, and interpreting services. This month, we’re featuring our Translation Project Manager, Simon Goodwin. Read more about how he went from intern to full-time employee at this language service provider, and juggles translation services projects at Language Connections!
Employee Spotlight: Xenia Sergeeva, Interpreting Project Manager at Language Connections
Welcome to the third installment in our Language Connections employee spotlight interview series! We’ll be talking to employees about their experiences working at this language service provider, their passions for localization, translation services, and interpreter services. This month, we’re featuring our Interpreting Project Manager, Xenia Sergeeva. Read more about how she landed an account manager position at this language service provider, and juggles language interpreting services projects at Language Connections!
Employee Spotlight: Kirill Grushko, Account Manager at Language Connections
This is the next installment in our Language Connections employee spotlight interview series! We’ll be talking to employees about their experiences at the company, their passions for translation services, localization, and interpreting services. We’ll hear about their victories, their challenges and their favorite languages and words. This month, we’re featuring Account Manager, Kirill Grushko. Read more about how he began as a freelance interpreter, then worked his way up to become a senior member of leadership staff at this busy Boston language service provider!
Employee Spotlight: Leo Galperin, Founder and President of Language Connections
We’re launching our brand new Language Connections employee spotlight interview series! We’ll be talking to employees about their experiences at the company, their passions for translation, localization services, and interpreting services. We’ll hear about their victories, their challenges and their favorite languages and words. This month, we’re featuring Leo Galperin, Founder and President of Language Connections. Read more about the trajectory of his career starting out as a freelance interpreter to becoming the founder of one of Boston’s largest language service providers!
Azerbaijan’s Breakfast Patent
Azerbaijani breakfast is patented
Something funny has been cooking in the international patent sphere: Azerbaijan relatively recently obtained a patent for its national breakfast. By making it compulsory for hotels to serve the traditional breakfast, the country presumably hopes to promote the national cuisine especially as the European Games are about to be held in the capital in June. Why breakfast? Because according to Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev, “usually tourists have only breakfast in hotels and prefer to spend the rest of the time outside hotel territory.” Is this breakfast patent-worthy? (more…)
MIT Russian Foreign Policy Event
MIT Hosts Lecture on Russian Foreign Policy
President of Language Connections, Leo Galperin, attended an MIT lecture yesterday regarding Russian foreign policy, “When the Dust Settles: the Russian Foreign Policy after the Ukrainian Crisis”. The event was hosted by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives Program. (more…)
Harvard School Hosts the President of Nigeria
LC Interprets for the President of Nigeria
Harvard Kennedy School of Government hosted the President of Nigeria, Mahamadou Issoufou, earlier this month during a conference on Economic Policy and Development focused on the future development of Africa through greater cooperation in the region. Language Connections provided French Simultaneous Interpreting during the speech of the President of Nigeria to ensure full understanding for all the participants. (more…)
Asahi Kasei Pharma Requests Interpreting
LC Provides Services for Asahi Kasei Pharma
Asahi Kasei Corporation is a global Japanese chemical company composed of nine core companies. One of their subsidiaries, Asahi Kasei Pharma, is focused on developing innovative bio-pharmaceutical therapies.
Asahi Kasei Pharma America recently held an internal meeting in Boston. During the event Language Connections provided Consecutive Interpreting Services. (more…)
LC Connects CERAWeek 2015 Participants
Language Connections at CERAWeek 2015
Language Connections is providing interpreting services at the 34th annual CERAWeek 2015 Executive Conference in Houston,Texas this month (April 20-24th). This annual event is attended by prominent policy and financial leaders from around the world. (more…)