Top of the day to you!  I'm Donna J Jodhan, president of www.translationpeople.com.
Today I would like to shine the light on India.

 

India's possibilities for language professionals

 

For the last few years the Indian along with the Chinese economies have been outstripping their Western counterparts in economic growth but with the recent economic slow down, these Tiger economies as experts call them, have been feeling the pinch like anyone else.  No one really knows how this is all going to play out about a year from now, but make no mistake about this; the Indian government is going to do everything in its power to ensure that its economy continues to grow whether it be big or small.  
 In the past few years more and more Western companies have relocated their call centers to India and in addition, they have been advocating for Westerners to invest in India.  India is literally bursting at the seams with consumers who are hungry for Western products and it is with this in mind that I feel that India could become a place for you to consider investing in the not too distant future.  That is, when things settle down globally and hopefully this will be much sooner than later.
 
I think that the possibility for translators and other foreign language professionals could be limitless if one is willing to wait for things to settle down and India may just be the place for you to be keeping an eye on.

 

I would like to close by giving you a reference to investigate.
India Small Business News Round-up - 23/10/2008
        By Stefan Töpfer
        Oracle targets small firms in the north for business: Oracle India Private Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of the world’s largest enterprise software company, is scouting for business opportunities in the small- and medium-scale business ...
        SmallorHomeBusiness.co.uk Blog –
http://smallorhomebusiness.co.uk/blog/ 

 

Time now for our news roundup of the week.
Opportunities for language translators plus more
Breaking news!  Obama’s multi-lingual campaign is best practice for targeting US ...       

 

        Ohio troopers using language translator device
        Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
        The device translates spoken English into Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese or Farsi. ...
Read more at:
http://www.ohio.com/news/ap?articleID=1065873&c=y

 

        Obama’s multi-lingual campaign is best practice for targeting US ...
        Response Source (press release) - London,UK
        ... Chinese. It is also important to recognise ‘American English’ as a language in its own right, which is why we only ever use North American translators ...
Read more at:
http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=43149&hilite=

 

            IT Examiner
        Moka unveils Skype translator
        IT Examiner - Banglore,Karnataka,India
        By Aharon Etengoff @ Monday, November 10, 2008 11:23 AM The program allows Skype users to chat with participants in English, Spanish or Chinese. ...
Read more at:
http://www.itexaminer.com/moka-unveils-skype-translator.aspx

 

        General Discussion : Chinese Translation recruitment
        Please note that only the resume in Chinese and English is accepted as we are mainly involved in the translation from source language to Chinese or Chinese to target language. Attention shall be given to the quality and contents of ...
        Web Wiz Forums -
http://forums.webwizguide.com/ 

 

        Babylon Pro v7.0.3.26
        By laser
        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, ...
        Nokiaapps -
http://www.nokiaapps.org/ 

 

        ARG Translations
        By info@fastpitchnetworking.com (Karina Garcia...
        ... for English Spanish translations However we have recently expanded our database to manage French Italian Portuguese German Russian and Chinese translations Our translation service contemplates an edition stage by a second translator ...
        Fast Pitch! Members -
http://www.fastpitchnetworking.com/ 

 

        Google Translate
        By Developer
        Chinese (Traditional) Quality ---------- Google translate is very very fast. The quality of the translation depends completely on the language pairs. The translation is a literal word for word translation, but ...
        Egypt Forums -
http://forum.egypt.com/enforum/ 

 

        Google’s Love to Machine Translation Is beyond my Understanding
        By Svetlana Gladkova
        I have also checked the comments to the English-language blog posts covering the announcement from people native in other languages sharing their experience with the new feature. People reported poor translation from English to Chinese ...
        Profy -
http://profy.com/ 

 

        Babylon Pro v7.0.3.26 full
        By bharat7009
        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, ...
        movies music masti -
http://bharat7009.blog.co.in/ 

 

        Top Best Xmas Gifts for Teacher - Talking 14 Language Portable ...
        By admin
        ... can access the translation of pre-programmed word or phrase to travel in the English language (using the New Oxford American English Dictionary), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, ...
        Cheap Software -
http://fxdir.com/softwares/ 

 

        challenges of the polyglot internet
        By lokman.tsui
        English so far is doing the job (poorly) as the lingua franca of the internet. Ethan warns us that machine translation will never be up to the task completely by itself. It will take a combination of tools and communities to achieve ...
        global voices, one world -
http://www.lokman.org/ 

 

        w0lf's Translator (uses Google translate engine)
        By huynhc
        Spanish - Swedish - Tagalog - Ukrainian - Vietnamese Please note that the translations are not always very accurate, but if you have a text in a different language you don't know, it gives you a good idea about what it means in most of ...
        PPCGeeks -
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/ 

 

        SDL bridges language gap
        Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA
        The new translators are expected to provide materials in less than a week, and the Spanish translator has promised a 24-hour turnaround, Himmele said. ...
Read more at:
http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/230064

 

        60 Bestselling Authors Sign Up For First Ever Literary Festival In ...
        Booktrade.info - Harpenden,England,UK
        His first novel, Taxi, has been a bestseller in Arabic and the English translation is now enjoying great success. Ibrahim Al Koni is a Libyan writer of ...
Read more at:
http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/17935

 

        Obama’s multi-lingual campaign is best practice for targeting US ...
        By Juan G. Tornoe
        ... such as Spanish and Chinese. It is also important to recognise ‘American English’ as a language in its own right, which is why we only ever use North American translators for work aimed at a US audience”, adds George. ...
        HispanicTrending -
http://juantornoe.blogs.com/hispanictrending/ 

 

        Can Gov. Patrick keep promises in economic crisis?
        By candicenovak
        In the auditorium, translators sat among the audience — paper taped to chairs reading CHINESE, SOMALI, and VIETNAMESE indicating them. Some sat with volunteer translators whispering. Some wore headphones with the voce of a Spanish ...
        Under-Covered -
http://undercovered.wordpress.com/ 

 

        Your website is driving away non-English speaking customers ...
        Trouble is, when you're talking native tongue, English is the fourth most-spoken language in the world behind Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish. If you want to leave out approximately 3.2 billion non-English speakers, go ahead, ...
        Ecademy: user blogs -
http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=blog 

 

        “In His Own Language”
        By holzapfel
        Equally impressive is the effort to provide translations of the Book of Mormon to the world. Today, the complete Book of Mormon has been translated into seventy-nine languages, and selections are available in another twenty-three ...
        Woodapple Blog -
http://rsc.byu.edu/blog/ 

 

        Babylon v7.0.3.r26
           By admin
        ... 1300 dictionary and translation sources in more than 75 languages. Babylon includes 33 up-to-date professional dictionaries in 17 languages developed by its own linguistic team: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, ...
        fastDDL -
http://www.fastddl.in/ 

 

Donna J Jodhan is the president of Sterling Creations
Now you can view blogs written by Donna at http://www.numpadplus.com/blog under the access and accessibility category and you can also see her biweekly editorial at www.accessibilitynews.ca/acnews/editorials/donna.php
In addition, you can view her monthly online magazine editorial at http://www.onestopbookcafe.com under the café talk link. 
Donna also hosts a weekly feature called important answers to consumers concerns at http://www.untappedwealth.com/businessdesk.html
and her company's free monthly online magazine can be found at http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/magazine.html
She now writes a weekly feature at http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog/blog.html

posted by Editor at 6:22 AM