Language Humor: Funny False Friends
When beginning to learn a foreign language, struggling with false friends will probably be one of the most common (and funniest) problems you will have to face. False friends are words that are similar in spelling or pronunciation, but have completely different meanings. For example, in Spanish if you say “estoy ...
Language of the Month: Indonesian
The Republic of Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 17,500 islands located between Southeast Asia and Australia. The official national language, Indonesian, based on a form of Malay, is universally taught in schools, and consequently is spoken by nearly every Indonesian. It is the language of business, politics, national ...
The Influence of the English Language on Other Languages
How important is it today to speak the English language fluently or at least understand it? It may be one of the most important things when you want to apply for a job. In other words, speaking English is no longer considered as something special, it is a requirement. Nowadays ...
Scribes and Simultaneous Interpreting at Multilingual Conferences
At Language Connections offer all different types of interpreting services. In addition to simultaneous interpreting, consecutive, and conference interpreting, we also provide ASL interpreting for hearing-impaired clients. Whatever you need for your conference or other multilingual events, we can handle it. Have you ever organized a multilingual academic program and ...
A Joint FDA-EMA Inspection Program
A Joint FDA-EMA Inspection Program Following a successful pilot program, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will begin sharing the work of inspecting pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in their respective regions. Effective as of January 2012, the program hopes to eliminate any duplication of ...
EDC Adoption and Life Science Translation in Global Trials
With the expansion of pharmaceuticals' clinical research into emerging countries, many companies are pushing for better life sciences translation services and global electronic data capture (EDC) adoption in an effort to improve the efficiency and accuracy of patient data collection methods. Although there are many advantages to converting to a ...
Life Sciences Translation Services for Global Operations via Partnerships
Forming international partnerships is becoming an increasingly common trend among companies that want to fully optimize their access to global markets (as is using life sciences translation services to make everything run smoothly). More and more life science companies are looking for partners that can bring together technological expertise, information ...
Language of the Month: Haida
Haida is a language of the northwest coasts of British Columbia and Alaska whose origin is uncertain. Although many linguists consider it to be a Na-Dene dialect distantly related to Tlingit and the Athabaskan languages, others consider it an isolate (a language unrelated to any other language). Fewer than a ...
The English Translation of the Longest Place Names in the World
Want to know the English translation for Krung-thep-maha-nakorn-boworn-ratana-kosin-mahintar-ayudhya-amaha-dilok-pop-nopa-ratana-rajthani-burirom-udom-rajniwes-mahasat-arn-amorn-pimarn-avatar-satit-sakattiya-visanukam? (or) Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit. The longer version spelled with 163 letters probably holds the record for the longest place name in the world. It's not surprising that only a handful of Thais can remember the full name of this city in Thailand. The abbreviated ...
Translation Services for a New Language: Tigrinya
Language Connections is happy to support the Idaho Office for Refugees with translation services for their efforts to aid in the resettlement process for many immigrants to the U.S. LC supports the IOR with immigration translation services. Recently we provided services, which involved Tigrinya translation. Tigrinya is a rare language, ...