OK, it wasn’t exactly a global move (just the county next door but one!), but the people who attended the Grow Your Business Globally in Bedford were all faced with the challenge of doing business on an international scale. TTC wetranslate’s MD, Levent Yildizgoren, started the session talking about the importance of making your company…
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Going global visits Bedford
It’s all in a day’s work
If you imagine what kind of work a translator does on a day-to-day basis you probably think of long documents, website copy and marketing material. It’s true that quite a lot of our work falls into those categories. But here are a few of our more unusual assignments. Cryptocurrency: a client was looking to break…
Navigating the cultural minefield
When doing business with people in another country, you can step on a cultural landmine, if you don’t go about it without due care and attention. Brits can be anything from reserved to very friendly. If you don’t understand that what they say is not necessarily what they mean, even the most fluent non-native English…
The Translation Challenge – Turkish style
This was the second year that Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey took part in the Translation Challenge. It’s for translation students who are working towards a degree that will allow them to become professional translators. This year four teams took part and the awards ceremony took place on 29th April 2019. It was more than…
From concept to delivery
When you decide that your material needs to be translated you’re at the beginning of a journey. This is the story of how translating works. Step 1: The brief To get the best possible results you’ll need to put together a brief to ensure that the translated material is fit for purpose. This doesn’t have…
From National to International
How did National Sovereignty and Children’s Day in Turkey become the International Children’s Day? In Turkey 23rd April is celebrated as Children’s Day since the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, presented it to all the children of the world. His vision was that children will be the creators of our future. A…
Workplace wellbeing
Wellbeing has become an international buzz word. Companies consider that it’s part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to their employees, but CSR is much more than making employees feel good. CSR includes working with the local community, whether that’s giving employees paid time off to work on charity or neighbourhood projects, providing ambassadors or…
A balancing act
On 8th March it was International Women’s Day and the theme this year is Better the balance, better the world. The aim is to promote a more gender-balanced world – in the boardroom, in government, in the media, for employees, in relation to pay and wealth, in sports and more. There’s even a ‘pose’ for…
A little bit of technology goes a long way
Professional translators get very dismissive about automatic translators – mainly because the free online tools are not known for laser sharp accuracy. However, that doesn’t mean that Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools aren’t used in our business. However, the way they’re used is different. The translators that work on our clients’ projects all have access…
Working in the community
Although we work globally and the nature of our work is international, we’re part of the local communities where we’re based. That means that we like to work with local charities and support our community. Recently, as part of TTC wetranslate (our sister company) we supported Chelmsford City Mencap at their Christmas Market. It was…
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