Top of the day to you!  I'm Donna J Jodhan, president of www.translationpeople.com. 
Today I would like to shine the spotlight on Britain.
 
The British picture, immigration and hospitals

 

When it comes to spoken languages, the British landscape has certainly changed and this change is extremely noticeable today.  There was a time not so long ago when English was probably the main language being spoken in Britain but with the passing of years this picture has changed and today Britain is home to many spoken languages.
 
This landscape has changed due to a very heavy influx of immigrants from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and with this comes the opening up of more opportunities for translators and interpreters.  As I along with many other see things, tons of opportunities abound for translators and interpreters to work in such places as hospitals, hotels, restaurants, immigration related centers and departments, and even at schools and universities.  For translators, interpreters, and teachers, the future for employment is extremely bright if you can work in more than one language.  True it is that our global economy is presently not doing too well, but for translators and interpreters, teachers and writers who can speak more than one language!  Your time is now.  Immigrants to Britain need your services.  The British government needs your services.  I am going to leave you with two references for you to review.  Both will help to paint the picture more clearly for you.

 

        Labour And The Tories Have Made Britain A Laughing Stock Example 1 ...
        By Victor(Victor)
        Patients who need interpreters are being given priority by hospital trusts because bosses reckon it's cheaper than having costly translators hanging about. It means that at busy times non-English speakers are instantly shunted to the ...
        Southend-On-Sea -
http://southendpatriot.blogspot.com/ 
 
        Familiar voices: Why the linguistic heritage of Britain's ethnic ...
        Independent - London,England,UK
        These languages have a huge part to play within the UK too, with a growing need for interpreters and translators to assist in anything from immigration to ...
Read more at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/getting-job/familiar-voices-why-the-linguistic-heritage-of-britains-ethnic-groups-s
 
 
Time now for our news roundup.
Opportunities for language translators plus more
Breaking news!  Demand growing for interpreters in courts, hospitals
       
        Advertising Buyer Leads
        Portada Magazine - New York,NY,USA
        With over 2 billion people in the world identifying English, Chinese or Spanish as their first language, Moka tries to provide mobile language translation ...
Read more at:
http://www.portada-online.com/html/website/paid/2008/nov17/Advertising-Buyer.aspx

 

        Demand growing for interpreters in courts, hospitals
        Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
        The limited English speakers are provided this service for free. The number of people who speak Spanish in Virginia doubled between the 1990 and 2000 US ...
Read more at:
http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/demand_growing_for_interpreters_in_courts_hospitals/31452/
 
        Moka - Free Translation for Cell Phones
        By Muzzammil Waheed
        Moka is your personal translator, enabling you to easily translate words and phrases back to your phone in the language of your choice ( English, Spanish and Chinese).Type in what you want to say in English and receive the translated ...
        Sizzled Core -
http://www.sizzledcore.com/ 

 

        Burton Raffel's Second Try at Translation: A Half-Century and Counting
        By ronhogan
        My little book, Poems From the Old English, was adored by university press editors, but stamped on by scholar reviewers, lost in their world of word-for-word translation. The book was thus rejected by forty-three publishers, ...
        Beatrice.com -
http://beatrice.com/wordpress/ 

 

        Language Translation Services— Are We Asking Too Much?
        By admin
        ... of language translation, one may find thousands of relative items. Baidu, google, yahoo, etc. are big names of translation services. Chinese to English, Chinese to German, Chinese to Spanish or vice versa, you name it, they have it. ...
        Transhorsa's blog-Your Translation... -
http://www.transhorsa.org/wordpress/ 

 

        More links
        By thenonconformer
        World English Bible audio version; World English Bible: Messianic Edition (WEBME); World English Bible Palm databases; World English Bible, indexed; www.scriptures.com; Young's Literal Translation; Zefania XML Bible markup language ...
        2nd Wittness Weblog -
http://wittnessed.wordpress.com/ 

 

        2007 The Rosetta Stone+27 kinds of language +10pieces/lot
        Studies show that learning exclusively in the new language—without translation as a crutch—is crucial if you want to communicate. Grammar drills and rote memorization never develop this skill. Dynamic Immersion helps you think in the ...
        OfferTime RSS - 50 New Arrivals -
http://www.offertime.net/ 

 

        20 Idealistic Emails - Day 8
        By Duke
        Speaking the language is one of the first steps in being a functional part of society. Let's stop printing some election ballots in Spanish, or offer GED tests in Vietnamese, or provide a Chinese translator for your drivers license exam ...
        The Daily Duke -
http://thedailyduke.com/ 

 

        Professional Translation Agencies For All Your Business Needs
        By KristiAmbrose
        I know this sounds funny, but I have run into it a lot; your doing business with a person, they can 100% write in English, but when it comes to reading the English language its like it becomes a whole other language. ...
        Full text business articles -... -
http://www.content4reprint.com/business/ 

 

        Google's Language translation tool
        By Vaibhav(Vaibhav)
        The languages supported are Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, indonesian, Italian, Japanese, korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, ...
        Internet Technology -
http://internetlabs.blogspot.com/ 

 

        Engrish
        By Bill
        Engrish is often created by using round-trip translation, wherein a phrase is translated using the Babelfish service or Google Language Tools into Japanese, then copying and pasting the Japanese text and translating it back into English ...
        facet-award.org -
http://facet-award.org/ 

 

        dealing with the parents
        By Ryan
        Apparently, in the English classes in Chinese school, the translation of little is the few/a little sense (I have a little milk) and the progression is taught as little, less, the least. When I marked the latter wrong on a quiz, ...
        Unshuttered -
http://theblackazar.wordpress.com/ 

 

        Portable Babylon Pro 7.0.3.26 MultiLang
        By cm3
        Babylon¡¯s text translation is available in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Russian, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, Farsi, ...
        Popular rapidshare software download -
http://soft-megaupload.com/ 

 

        Freeelance Writing Jobs for Wednesday, November 19, 2008
        By Jodee
        Copywriting (up to $40 for 500 words); Category Editors Needed @ Predictify.com; Software Application Help Doc Author Needed; Translation: Japanese to English Report; Native Hungarian Needed for Proofreading; Freelancers Needed for ...
        Freelance Writing Jobs for Web and Print -
http://freelancewritinggigs.com/webandprint/ 

 

        Harvest Tools
        By Andy
        Last May I produce the French version of these videos. This past September we added Spanish; October brought us Chinese; and this month¡¦ Arabic! Producing each translation of the videos is a significant undertaking. ...
        Andrew Fish -
http://andrewfish.com/ 

 

        Feeding the Curiosity: International Tags
        By jodi church-wagner
        Soon, you¡¯ll be able to check out all the international tags and their bookmarks on Mister Wong in English(en), German(de), Spanish(es), French(fr), Russian(ru), and Chinese(cn). You can try it out now already using the tagcloud or by ...
        Mister Wong-Blog -
http://blog.mister-wong.com/ 

 

        Spanish
        By Matt(Matt)
        acuerdo: agreement --Estamos de acurdo con usted. I didn't put the English translation because if I look back I want to be able to read the Spanish and understand how to use the word in a sentence. ¢®Hasta la vista!
        ä² - Yo - Me -
http://nauir.blogspot.com/ 

 

Donna J Jodhan is the president of Sterling Creations
Now you can view blogs and editorials written by Donna at:
 http://numpadplus.com/blog/?page_id=7 (access and accessibility)
http://www.accessibilitynews.ca/acnews/editorials/donna.php (accessibility issues in Canada)
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com (accessibility and disability issues on the international scene)
http://www.onestopbookcafe.com (under the café talk link) 
http://www.untappedwealth.com/businessdesk.html (important answers to consumers concerns)
http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/magazine.html (monthly editorial)
http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog/blog.html (blogs for language professionals and special needs business consultants)

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