Last Thursday Feb. 23rd, the CEO of the Translation Bureau Donna Achimov delivered a workshop on the future of translations for the Government of Canada titled The Canadian Language Industry: Charting the Course for the Future. The recording of the webinar is here until April 27th: http://archive.isiglobal.ca/vod/pwgsc/2012-02-23/2012-02-23_en.html
wintranslation's president Huiping Iler will be a panel speaker on a Mandarin talk show on February 23rd, 2012 from noon to 1 pm on CHIN Radio FM 97.9. The special call-in show is in celebration of International Women's Day coming up March 8th. The show is about life in Canada.…
In the last month, I have been meeting with many translators residing in the National Capital region. Almost all of them are my “competitors” who compete for government business. They usually translate from English into French (Quebec) and most of them are suppliers for the Translation Bureau. A number of…
Background A Canadian international agency, specialized in aviation, selected wintranslation™ as its French translation partner to deliver highly technical aviation e-learning courseware consisting of more than 230,000 words. The Challenge The modules that were translated are for aviation regulation purposes, are highly complex, and require very specialized subject area knowledge.…
Spanish is the official language in 20 countries. It is spoken by 417 million people around the world (Ethnologue) and it’s the third language used online after English and Chinese. Even if it’s not an official language, Spanish is the second most used language in the United States; 95% of…