Portuguese Simultaneous Interpreting
LC Facilitates Program at HKS Language Connections recently offered our linguistic services - Portuguese simultaneous interpreting and Portuguese translation services - during an Executive Education Program hosted by Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Also known as the John F.Kennedy School of Government, HKS is a public policy and public administration school ...
10 Untranslatable Words in Various Languages
Untranslatable Words | Can a Word Be 'Untranslatable'? A new word is created approximately every 100 minutes, and languages are constantly changing - adopting new phrases, borrowing words and terminology from other languages, and modernizing to keep up with trends. Moreover culture plays a major role in how language is ...
Chinese Delegation Visits Dana Farber
LC Interprets at Dana Farber Cancer Institute On January 29, 2015, Dana Farber, the Boston-based cancer treatment and research institute, held a conference hosting a group of Chinese delegates. The group was given a tour of the facilities, both at Harvard Medical School as well as the Dana Farber Institute, and ...
Happy Lunar New Year of the Goat… or Sheep?
Happy Lunar New Year! The Lunar New Year is one of the most important holidays in many Asian countries. In China, it lasts for more than just a few days (fifteen in total) giving families the opportunity to gather and celebrate. It has come to be known most commonly as the ...
Russia in the XXI Century
LC to attend Tufts 2015 Symposium | Russia in the XXI Century The Tufts Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) Symposium is an annual public forum. It features many international speakers ranging from academics and intellectuals to activists and journalists who participate in panel discussions and workshops. This year Tufts IGL ...
LC Takes a Stand for Children
LC Interprets at Stand for Children 2015 Member Summit Meeting The child advocacy organization, Stand for Children, aims to ensure that all children graduate from high school prepared for, and with access to, a college education. With members in more than 100 communities across Massachusetts, their ultimate goal is to ...
Will the English Language Unite ASEAN Economic Community?
Member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations -ASEAN Economic Community- are looking to standardize their IP processes as economic opportunities increase in the regions. Part of this initiative involves a unified language for all IP procedures ...
Quechua Language, The Language of the Incas
The Quechua Language With 25 million speakers, Quechua language is spoken in ten countries in Latin America (is an official language in three of them), and was once the language of the great Inca Empire. But unfortunately not many people know a lot about it ...
The Role of Translation in the Life Sciences Industry
Life sciences translation, or translating any life sciences text for that matter, is nothing like translating a literary work or an operating manual for a dishwasher. Unlike these examples, this highly technical type of translation must pass through an extremely rigorous process in order to ensure accuracy and quality. As ...
Russian Business Relations Event
THE U.S.- RUSSIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF NEW ENGLAND PRESENTS U.S. - Russia Business Today Considering recent events affecting the Russian economy, business relations between the U.S. and Russia has undergone some critical changes. There are uniquely antagonistic forces that create conflicts between the U.S. and Russia. Historically, the two ...