Choose Your April Fool’s Day Pranks from Around the World
April Fool's Day in many countries is a day for hoaxes and practical jokes. The tradition is said to have started with the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, when the New Year was moved from April 1st to January 1st. Those who had difficulty adapting to the change were labeled ...
Language Connections Offers Spring Community Interpreter Training
Language Connections Community Interpreter Training Spring Session Language Connections is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for our Certificate Community Interpreter Training Program that starts on May 17, 2014 through June 28, 2014. This 7-week, 45-hour program trains participants to become competent community interpreters qualified to work for such agencies as state ...
Language Connections Provides Chinese Interpreters for Acclaro in Shanghai
LC Partners with Acclaro and Provides Chinese Interpreters in Shanghai Language Connections recently partnered with Acclaro to provide simultaneous interpreting services (Chinese interpreters) and equipment for a Visa International workshop in Shanghai, China. Typically interpreters in China work in groups of three, but in order to provide more affordable services ...
Studying in China: China through American Eyes
Interview with Tom Kennedy | Studying in China Tom Kennedy grew up in Massachusetts where he studied Latin, French and Spanish in high school. He later majored in Chinese Language and Literature at UMass in Amherst. In addition to learning Chinese, he also took electives in Japanese, Hebrew, Old English, and ...
Language Connections Offers Medical Interpreter Training Session
Language Connections Spring Session in Medical Interpreter Training Our Foundations in Medical Interpreter Training program has started accepting registration for the spring session. This course offers training and certification for medical interpreters in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Haitian Creole, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese Chinese. The 60 hour 7-week Training Session, ...
A Forecast of Indian Clinical Trials
New Regulations Affecting Indian Clinical Trials In order to improve the quality of clinical trials conducted in India, regulatory authorities are in the process of implementing new regulations. Along with measures to reduce regulatory approval timelines, down to one month in some cases, there has been a major push to enforce a ...
China’s Pharmaceutical Industry Outlook
The Future of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry During the last decade, experts have consistently predicted that by 2014 China would be the second largest prescription drug market in the world. According to the Pharmaceutical industry analysts at Bloomberg, however, there has instead been a recent decline in China's growth, down ...
Growth in Asian Pharmaceutical Markets
Asian Pharmaceutical Markets In 2014, emerging markets are expected to represent a quarter of the world's trade in pharmaceutical products and global pharmaceutical sales will exceed $1 trillion US dollars by the end of year. Although the United States remains the largest pharmaceutical market, emerging countries are positioned to play the ...
Language Connections Finds Hakka Interpreters for MA Commission for the Blind
Language Connections Finds Hakka Interpreters for MA Commission for the Blind Massachusetts Commission for the Blind is a state agency which makes its services available to the roughly 30,000 registered legally blind individuals in Massachusetts. The organization assists these individuals in becoming more independent and involved in the community through ...
Language Connections Joins AILA New England Chapter Conference
LC Participates in AILA New England Chapter Conference The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is a non-profit, national association of more than 13,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law. AILA attorneys provide legal support to immigrants representing a range of services including U.S. families seeking permanent ...