October 2011

A Day Just for Us!

Last month we celebrated the Feast Day of St. Jerome—possibly a lesser-known saint than say, St. Nicolas. St. Jerome is quite a laudable figure for those of us in the international world of translation, interpretation, and library science. St. Jerome is not only our patron saint, but there is a secular holiday for us as well; International Translation Day.

First organized in the 1960s by the International Translators Foundation (FIT), this day is to acknowledge how much more important translation has become in this world—and continues to become all the time. With global calls for translators, interpreters, and teachers of languages of every kind, the need to demystify the world of language for each other grows greater by the day.

Every day new job postings appear on the websites like ACTFL, Proz.com, and many others, including simply college websites seeking to bring their students the new and exciting experience of learning an unknown language. The reason is that the culture surrounding a language follows the ABCs of a language. Once the basics are down, a student of any language is introduced to a whole new environment that surrounds the language learned.

Here at Techworld, we accomplish this in a number of creative ways. First is the initial assessment of your individual needs. Are you looking for full language fluency, or do you need to translate a large-scale technical manual? Whatever you desire, Techworld will work with you to meet your goals. Not only do we bring the experience of a multilingual work environment to life for you, we incorporate current events and points of interest concerning the world a language comes from.

We would like to help you become the individual called upon to greet foreign clients as they arrive for a company tour, or the one who colleagues can call when they don’t know how to read the Request for Quote that arrived from Germany. Call us today to get started and we'll start working with you to make sharing a new language easy and exciting!

Best regards,
Fred Meinberg
President
fred@techworldinc.com