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5 Tips for Localizing Your eLearning
Why is localizing your eLearning content important? In today’s dynamic workplace, what may sound like simple tasks often require certain skills and industry knowledge. This means that offering your team high-quality and effective training is crucial to their success, and that of your company. However, providing this training can be costly and time consuming. It’s […]
eLearning vs. Classroom Learning
When most of us think of eLearning, or online learning, we think online degrees and à la carte course offerings from higher education institutions. But eLearning is not just for the stay-at-home student anymore. More and more businesses are now integrating eLearning tools into their employee training. Why the switch? How does eLearning stack up […]
How to Leverage Machine Translations (MT)
CSOFT has always been excited to debate the topic of man vs. machine translation, and to discuss its implications for businesses and translators alike. In today’s global world, machine translation has become a common aspect in both businesses and daily life. For people travelingMachine Translation abroad, for example, translation apps — which are based on machine translation — are the fastest and most cost effective solution for traversing foreign lands.
3 Common Problems of Machine Translation Services
On January 7th, 1954, a massive IBM computer, dubbed the “polyglot brainchild”, translated over sixty sentences from Russian to English. This computer, the IBM 701, marked the first publicly announced instance of machine translation services. Lauded as a miracle and a massive advancement in the fields of both computer science and linguistics, this achievement sparked […]
From Domestic to Global: Investing in Globalizing Companies
When looking to invest in globalizing companies that are about to go global there are many important factors to take into account. These factors can determine whether a company will thrive abroad, or sink under the pressures of a foreign market. Before investing, it is imperative to fully evaluate the plethora of influences that can […]
Common Mistakes by Chinese Companies Going Global
Now, Chinese companies are going global and looking to expand abroad more than ever before. CSOFT’s Shenzhen 100 project is analyzing China’s globalizing businesses, zooming in on China’s modern hub of high tech, globalizing industry: Shenzhen. Our analysis puts Shenzhen companies into two general groups: “mature transformers” and “fast rising companies.” Jack Ma once likened […]
Stepes – The Translation App to Help China go Global
As more Chinese companies aspire to go west, translation and localization services have had to customize their technology and services using avenues that have traditionally been oriented towards helping western companies expand into markets like China. One solution comes in the form of Stepes’ translation app for expanding companies with global ambitions.
Translation Technology: The Everlasting Battle
In an effort to make translation easier for the average person, computer scientists have created a translation process that involves automation through mathematics. Linguists protest the automation, saying that this translation technology has removed the very soul of language by completely disregarding the nuances, culture and feeling inherent in verbal and written communication.