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Lingo24 Solutions:We really can help you do more effective business internationally - and if we can't, you'll know this within 30 seconds of speaking to us on the 'phone. Lingo24 Company BlogArchive for October, 2008Lateral thinking to combat lack of interpretersWednesday, October 8th, 2008The chronic shortage of battlefield interpreters and translators in the US Armed Forces has been an ongoing and hard to solve problem for some time, with languages such as Arabic, Pashto, Dari, Persian, Farsi, Hindi…and surprisingly Indonesian and Tagalog being particularly sought after. Grand theft auto in the African bushWednesday, October 8th, 2008Well, perhaps not quite; but those are certainly the charges facing three men in Botswana, the landlocked Republic in Southern Africa that neighbours South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Botswana is of course more famous for its tourist and diamond mining industries rather than automotive theft, but that is precisely the charges against the three accused men Kesetse Gabatlhotshwe, Kagiso Segola and Ernest Tsiane; the charges being taken all the more seriously by the Botswana judiciary because the precise crime is that of stealing the official vehicle of the Minister of Agriculture. EU language combinations stagger beliefThursday, October 2nd, 2008Every savvy investor is more than aware of the magic of compound interest; through its marvels, great financial benefit can be accrued over a period of years. As if in a sort of inverse parody of compound interest though, over the years, the language combinations within the European Parliament have compounded into something equally amazing. |