04/18/2007 - 04/19/2007

Koreans face Cultural and Language barriers when coming to the USA

The so-called 1.5 generation of Korean-Americans, or those that emigrated from their birthplace while children, sometimes struggle over their identity because they emigrated to a foreign land in the midst of their formative years. The sudden cultural and language gap only aggravates the situation.

Globalization and New Opportunities for Foreign Language Technology

Privately owned GlobaLinguist, Inc. will be featured in an exclusive Market News First interview Friday, April 20, 2007 at 11:45 a.m. CDT. Company Founder and CTO Daniel Blumenthal will join "Microcap Engine" host Steve Kanaval to discuss the business and works of the Web-based language-learning engine on www.mn1.com.

GlobaLinguist is an industry leader, offering language technology solutions to schools, businesses, governments and individuals. WordChamp.com is the Company's flagship product, an innovative website with users across 195 countries speaking 125 languages.

Inttranews™ Launches New Alert Service for Interpreters and Translators

Trilingual alerts (in English, French and Spanish) are now sent to Inttranews™ subscribers and to all the professional interpreters' and translators' associations around the world, so that their members can be immediately informed of the plight of colleagues arrested, tried, imprisoned, tortured or assassinated simply for doing their job.

LingvoSoft Announces Free Online Translation Service

LingvoSoft the award-winning software division of world-leaders in micro-translation ECTACO Inc., have announced the launch of the newest web-based translation service that promises to be the one-stop solution for anyone who needs to work with foreign languages. The first online service to offer normally commercial features for free, LingvoSoft Online aims to provide visitors to the new site with an array of indispensable translation utilities.

Word of the Day: trice

trice \TRYS\, noun:
A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- used chiefly in the phrase "in a trice."

There is no reason to doubt Alma here since so many other witnesses over the years tell similar tales . . . of the moody Mahler who would switch from eloquence to silence in a trice for no apparent reason. -- Jonathan Carr, Mahler: A Biography

Our super sleuth decided to take action and the mystery was solved in a trice. -- "Furthermore", The Guardian, October 30, 2001

Lack of diversity in publishing

A report published last week revealed a shocking lack of diversity within the British publishing industry at employee and managerial level.

The Diversity in Publishing Report is the first such quantitative piece of research, comprehensively establishing that publishing companies need to do much more to attract a more diverse workforce. It is likely to add pressure on companies to review their hiring practices.

Gel-Pak launches Chinese-Language website

Gel-Pak, a division of Delphon Industries and leading manufacturer of device shipping and handling carriers used predominantly by the semiconductor, optoelectronics, and telecommunication industries announced the launch of its new Chinese-Language website today.

The site was developed in order to more effectively compete in the fast growing Chinese semiconductor and photonics markets.

IncrediMail Offers Language Translation and Dictionary Service

IncrediMail Ltd., a software company specializing in Internet consumer products and services, today announced it has launched a translation and dictionary service, integrated with its flagship product, IncrediMail, through its previously announced collaboration with Babylon, a leading provider of single-click translation and information access solutions. When users elect to purchase the full version of Babylon, the companies will share the revenue that is generated.

Word of the Day: bedaub

bedaub \bih-DOB\, transitive verb:
1. To smudge over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.
2. To overdecorate; to ornament showily or excessively.

The patient's signature is less neat than usual, not only because of his agitated state but also, quite possibly, because the pen is so bedaubed with chocolate that it slips through his fingers. -- Marcel Beyer, "The Karnau Tapes.", Grand Street, Fall 1997

Only their wagon keeps on rolling, empty, bedaubed with tears, under our windows. -- Laszlo Darvasi and Ivan Sanders, "Stories of Kisses, Stories of Tears.", Grand Street, March 1, 1997