People often think that translators have very little freedom in their work, but nothing could be further from the truth. A translator always needs a spark of creativity to produce a quality result. At LingoStar, we love to explore our world, so we’ve decided to dedicate this month’s newsletter to the importance of creativity in translation. In our blog post, Lost In Translation, you’ll learn more about the creativity we use in translation when there seems to be no solution to translating a difficult text. We hope this demonstrates that creativity is the key to successful translation. Also, don’t miss our monthly calendar of special calendar events and our social media posts! READ OUR NEWSLETTER...
Summer is the best time of the year to take a break and travel the world. Of course, when we think about traveling, we think about the language we need to know, but there’s more to it than that. Going to another country means experiencing another culture, so we’ve decided to focus this month’s newsletter on translation and localization. But what exactly is localization? How does it differ from translation? Scroll down and you’ll find several articles on the subject. You can also read about the different types of localization in our blog post Translation Localization: Translating for Global Markets. As always, don’t miss our curiosities about countries and national days and events. Keep scrolling to keep learning! READ OUR NEWSLETTER...
Behind every great success is great teamwork. For us, that would be our project managers. Our blog post, Translation Project Management – How To Handle Multilingual Translations, picks the brain of our CEO and Managing Director, Lenka de Graafova, M.A. Lenka shares her point of view on the essential skills needed to be a successful translation project manager and her experience working in the Canadian translation field. If you thought that project management was just those human stress balls rolling around the office chasing deadlines, then you are absolutely correct. Explore the brain of project managers with us this month! Caution: Find a loud corner. Laughter is an absolute requirement! Don’t forget to check out our culture corner and our Instagram page for interesting facts on countries around the world. Where is curiosity taking us this week? READ THIS NEWSLETTER...
Wondering about project management workflow? Well, look no further. It’s been a very busy month here at LingoStar! So naturally, we are inviting you for a sneak peek at the project management workflow process required to keep our engine oiled and running. Take a look at what it takes to manage and tackle our huge workload in our blog post translation agencies and project management. From a step-to-step outline to general rules and guidelines to help you navigate your translation tasks easier. If you are a skeptic of translation companies, let us convince you. Hiring LingoStar’s professionals for your translations is better than freelancers. Our blog will further convince you that our expertise and reach in the language community is the better option for your buck. Project managers: how to know if your expertise can translate into the language field? Our blog will put your mind at ease if you are debating whether your management skillset is transferable to the translation field. Find out if you are eligible for an exciting career change! As a matter of fact, join us for a fun-filled adventure into the project management world! Take a crash course on the fundamentals of project management with Rhona. Let her take you on a tour of the project management world. Learn about her key terms, common techniques, and lifecycles and methodologies in her youtube video. Moreover, find out what works for you and your team in terms of project management styles, navigate your way around software, use tools effectively, and avoid burnout. And as always, don’t miss out on our cultural tour where we take you...
Multilingualism seems to be the norm these days. With a growing number of bilinguals in the world, it is not surprising that the world of cinema includes bilingual if not multilingual members. In fact, some celebrities speak as many as seven languages! Impressive, isn’t it? Our blog post The Role of Translation in Audiovisual Productions and Bilingual Actors explores the importance of translation in cinema and audiovisual productions. These productions have undergone significant changes since their initial introduction. 🎞️ Tag along as fawn over the creative world of cinema and its talented artists who probably did not even strike you as multilingual. Join us this week to satisfy our international cultural curiosity as we hobble our way to Ireland for their infamous St Patrick’s Day. All this and more in our newsletter! Just keep scrolling! READ THIS NEWSLETTER...
Have you ever wondered why your behaviour changes when you speak different languages? If you’re bilingual or polyglot, you probably already know. You are not the same person when you’re speaking your native language versus your acquired language(s). This is because language and personality are interconnected. At LingoStar, our passion extends to all things language, which is why we are taking you on this exploratory journey with us. Find out how interconnected languages are to your personality in our blog post Personality and Language: What Links Them? Read the testimonials of people who have experienced different behaviour patterns when they switch languages. And of course, don’t forget to tag along with our very own curious curator as we curry our way to India for this month’s cultural curiosity. 🍛 All this and more in our February newsletter! Keep scrolling! READ THIS NEWSLETTER...
The first issue of this year’s January newsletter about translators worldwide zeroes in on our industry’s most fluent asset: the translator. Translators worldwide featured in our January Newsletter work with an array of skills and tools to perfect their crafts, making them global resources to any business adventuring outside unilingualism. Have you ever wondered what life would be without translators? Every day, we find ourselves reading, watching, and consuming content from all over the world, but if we stop and think for a second, we would realise how reliant the world is on the ability to understand each other despite the language barrier. The art of translation in a nutshell. Our blog post, How Translators Worldwide Improve Our Lives, elaborates on the role of translators and how they impact our lives. The video and articles below further demonstrate the importance of translators and interpreters, especially as the world progresses towards globalisation. Take a look at our project section to learn more about the expansive area of expertise Lingostar and its translators specialises in. This and a lot more in this month’s newsletter! Keep scrolling! READ THIS NEWSLETTER...
Christmas is in the air, and we can all feel it!🎄Are you done with getting your Christmas presents? Celebrated around the world in different forms and traditions, this holiday season is an opportunity to gather with family and friends. The race to get everyone’s Christmas presents to mark the occasion is inevitable and can sometimes be quite tricky! Running out of gift ideas for your children? LingoStar suggests trying for a multilingual toy! Our blog post, Multilingual Toys Under the Christmas Tree, highlights the importance of learning another language and its benefits of starting to do so from an early age. Indulge in our fascination this month with articles, videos, and, of course, our newsletter on promoting multilingualism in children through toys. Finishing up, this week’s cultural curiosity is taking us to Finland. This and lots more, you only have to keep on scrolling through our newsletter to find out! READ THIS NEWSLETTER...
Black Friday has been a worldwide tradition for a long time now. There is only one aim on that day: buy as much as you can, whether you need it or not! However, the consumerism encouraged on this day has started to make a few enemies. As a result, some people have created the “Buy Nothing Project”, where, if you want to get something, you can ask for it but you give something you don’t need in return. Black Friday is considered a good opportunity for brands to expand their businesses, and since expansion means capturing a wider audience, we’re naturally interested in it! So, we’ve decided to look into Black Friday and Cyber Monday, in more detail in this newsletter. This month’s blog post also deals with the importance of services like translation and localization in ad campaigns. If you want to know more about marketing and translation, keep scrolling! READ THIS NEWSLETTER...
October is an eventful month. The fall season manifests itself in the colourful, spooky and pumpkin-flavoured everything. On the second Monday of the month, however, Canada celebrates Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is first and foremost an opportunity to get together and give thanks to God Almighty for all the blessings of the past year. Therefore, we’ve decided to show our thankfulness for the incredibly diverse world we live in. The wealth of cultures surrounding the tiny reality of our lives inspires nothing but gratitude from us, that we get to wake up every day to live and thrive in the complexity of it all. This newsletter explores the importance of getting in touch with other cultures. Also, read our blog post about how cultural and linguistic diversity helps us in becoming more tolerant as a global community. Curious to know more, keep scrolling! READ THIS NEWSLETTER...
