If you, like the team at Intonation, were sat glued to the many Olympic events in Rio, you may have wondered why the announcements were in French, English and Portuguese...
You're polite, courteous and have good social skills; so the only communication challenge posed by working internationally is the language barrier. Right? Wrong.
The biggest players, areas of growth and changing business models are all in the spotlight in the recently published report on the UK language industry by the Association of Translation Companies (ATC).
Intonation is making its mark on the European translation industry thanks to our membership of Eulogia. As a pan-European consortium of 20 translation companies, Eulogia allows just one member per EU language - but only if they meets its stringent quality standards.
On 1st September, Radio 4 aired a programme called ‘Fry’s English Delight – English plus one’. In this particular episode Stephen Fry researched and interviewed bilingual speakers.
In the 1960s teenagers bewildered their parents by following particular groups or bands. Their parents didn’t understand, didn’t get it and really didn’t ‘dig’ it.
From building better relationships to enhancing your CV, knowing a second language can bring countless benefits to your success in the corporate world, not to mention being an invaluable life skill.