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Recent estimates put the number of native English speakers in the world at about 375 million, while a staggering 1.125 billion people globally speak English either as a second or foreign language. In the English-speaking world, though, a comparable ability with foreign languages is rare.
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BLOG: Tea Dietterich of Multimedia, Languages and Marketing blogs on the ‘sound of androgyny’. When you’re negotiating via email, do you know whether your new partner is male or female?
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Tea Dietterrich explains how colours mean different things in different cultures, and how the right choice for your marketing materials could make or break your business.
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Lisa Goodhand explains why communicating correctly with the right person is key to avoiding falling victim to Chinese whispers.
...read moreTea Dietterich offers a general guide to language services, and explains why paying a translator is worth your while when doing business.
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Australia’s Cybre Software recently won the Leading Innovation Award at the 6th Taipei International Invention Show and Technomart. The award was conferred by the International Intellectual Property Network Forum and presented to Cybre’s director Dr Richard Ski for his company’s Cybre Reader Pofessional software. The browser based computer program allows translation of MS Word documents, [...]
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I have to admit that I’m really going to miss Kevin Rudd. Yes, I know he had to go for all kinds of domestic, parochial, poll-driven, factional and political reasons but, for a brief shining moment, Australia stood tall on the world stage, with our Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister rubbing shoulders with leaders of countries of [...]
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English is the accepted language of commerce today, but doing business with people who speak it as a second language provides many communication challenges. Paying attention to what you say as well as how you say it can minimise misunderstandings and win contracts. Slow your speech pace: Deliberately aim to speak at a slower pace [...]
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English is the chosen language of the European Union and the most popular second language for those whose first language is not English. It has also become the language of business, according to technology company GlobalEnglish. “The whole notion of being an American company or a French company is no longer the case. You are [...]
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Learning a foreign language will become compulsory in Queensland schools once again after the government re-stated their position on Languages Other Than English (LOTE). Queensland newspaper The Courier-Mail revealed that the Queensland Department of Education and Training “had quietly allowed principals to opt out of teaching LOTE in Years 6, 7 and 8 – the [...]
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