One of the unique aspects of Thailand’s business culture is the fact that it bears resemblances to those of many other countries across Southeast Asia even though it was never colonized. That said not being colonized means that it’s business culture has not been as influenced by Western Culture. Though some traits the business culture […]
Each day there are millions of companies competing for the attention of your target audience. Regardless of if your customers are American, European or Asian, they have an array of choices and so you need to offer them an incentive to do business with you or buy your product. As a business whose customers are […]
While Google has a tight clinch on the world’s search engine traffic from both desktop and mobile devices, but even then, there is a third of the search traffic left for numerous other search engines. In many countries like China, local search engines outdo Google. Google, for the most part, is unheard of in China. […]
Italy is without a doubt one of the seven most industrialized nations internationally. It has the most highly developed production facilities in the EU. Not to mention the fact that Italy has a pretty broad economy encompassing everything from fashion accessories, to cars and machines. Most of the raw materials for manufacturing are imported. That […]
Even though modern-day Middle Eastern countries have received a lot of Western exposure especially to business practices the significant difference still is between separating personal from professional lives. In the Arab world, professional and personal lives are one and the same which means that your business partner and even employees are friends and family. Now […]
The impact on the English language post-Brexit will be drastically negative if all things are considered. The EU adopted English as its official language at a time when the UK joined the EU. Today, it is the most widely spoken language in the EU, with it being a working language in many institutions associated with […]
In the past decade, we have seen the translation industry go through two very critical changes in the way professionals work. What used to be merely translating documents is now broken down into two segments i.e., globalization and specialization. Human translation has improved and significantly transformed with companies now being able to employ people from […]
Anyone who has lived some time in Quebec or perhaps spent time in some other French-speaking country would run into the term ‘Francophonie.’ ‘Francophonie’ means French-speaking quality. However, most people incorrectly assume it to be the Organisation internationale de la francophonie which is also called La Francophonie sometimes. The term designates a quality score of […]
Brussels is the capital of Belgium and has for a very long time had French and Dutch as its official languages. That said according to a study published by the Flemish University of Brussels, there are 104 languages spoken in the country. According to the census and various other studies, it is mostly agreed that Brussels consists […]
German is the predominant and the officially spoken language of Germany. However, it is just one of the 23 other official languages within the EU. Yet makes up one of the three working languages of the EC (European Commission), alongside French and English. The Derivation of Germanic Languages The standard form of spoken German is […]