12 Things You Should Never Do in Japan
Familiarizing yourself with a country’s culture and customs can help you navigate foreign waters and avoid embarrassing incidents. Travelers need to acquaint themselves with the traditions commonly followed in the country they're visiting and should educate themselves...
How Birthdays Are Celebrated Around the World… and at TrueLanguage
TrueLanguage turned 15 in August of 2021! And in honor of our birthday, we'd like to share some birthday traditions from around the world. A birthday could be a big deal or just another day on the calendar, depending on the country and culture. From cakes and candles...
TrueLanguage Announced as a 2021 Local Excellence Award Winner by UpCity!
For more than a decade, UpCity’s mission has been—and continues to be—to help businesses find B2B service providers they can trust. The UpCity Recommendability Rating was developed to determine a service provider’s credibility and recommendability, giving UpCity the...
Things You Can Do to Be Heard and Understood in the Workplace
Being misunderstood can be a frustrating experience, especially when it happens in the workplace. No one, especially women, likes the feeling that they're being ignored, misinterpreted, or not being listened to or heard. In business, effective communication is...
Cultural Diversity, Sensitivity and Inclusion in Business Communication
A global economy and a global workforce—we’ve frequently heard these terms during this digital age, which has opened up businesses to newly-accessible consumers all over the world. Although expanding your business to other countries and cultures is exciting and brings...
6 Things to Consider When Preparing an International Workforce
By making it progressively easier to do business between nations and across cultures, cutting-edge technology and ongoing digital transformation have opened up new markets for many companies. Consider your organization’s untapped potential for doing business with...
Questions You Should Ask When Choosing a Translation Partner
With the world becoming increasingly connected, the number of businesses requiring translation services is growing. As a result, the language services industry has doubled in size in the last 10 years. If you work for one of the many businesses with global engagement,...
The 5 Fastest Growing Languages and What That Means for Global Industry
If you work at a global company or one that plans to expand globally, then it's important to understand language trends and know the fastest growing languages. Global industries need to know the languages people are relying on to do business, but also what languages a...
10 Things You Should Know before Translating Your e-Learning Course
More and more businesses are turning to e-learning for training and development. First, with multicultural and multilingual workforces, e-learning localization gives businesses the ability to provide the same content and experience in different languages. Second,...
Capture the Essence of the Vietnamese New Year
Celebrating Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, is a popular tradition unique to Vietnam. Falling in early February on the Lunar New Year, it’s Vietnam’s time for ringing in the new year. Vietnamese Americans still connect to their roots through Tet, and they describe it as...