The Life of a CSOFT Linguistic Project Coordinator

In today’s Simply CSOFT, CSOFT’s Edvardas Chmieliauskas offers insight into the day-to-day routine of a linguistic coordinator and the difficulties he faces.

Meet our CSOFT Translator – Julia Wehrle

Julia Werhle, CSOFT’s German translator, shares her experience of working at CSOFT International and what she thinks makes a good translator.

Bestselling Children’s Book gets Latin Translation

This week in the news, a bestselling children’s book is translated into Latin, a new smartphone app helps North Korean refugees assimilate, and organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics boost support for translation technology development.

Meet our CSOFT Translators – Daniel Yao

CSOFT’s Daniel Yao, a native of Beijing, shares his experience of working at CSOFT and what he thinks makes a good translator.

Enterprise Localization: International Business Etiquette 101

Click for a quick glimpse into the dos and don’ts of international business etiquette.

Translation Industry News: Google Translate and Nobel Prize Trouble

This week in the news, Bangladeshis celebrate their country’s independence with a translation campaign, an FBI linguist misses pop culture references in courtroom evidence and one translator’s decision changes the way a Chinese novel is perceived worldwide.

Transcreation and Why Translation Matters

Good marketers know that when adapting messages for an international audience, they have to do more than just translate. They need to perform “transcreation.”

Localized Entertainment

What media companies are doing to increase global audience.

In The News: Lost in Cultural Translation, School in West Africa Unites Language, Cat Translation App Backfires on Owner

This week in the news, we spotlight the importance of cultural sensitivity after a well-wishing Korean man offered dog meat to US Ambassador Mark Lipper.

Broadway Musicals for Chinese Students

Western influence has steadily crept in over the last three decades and Chinese people are slowly embracing a new performing art: Broadway musicals.

Meet Our Translator – Edvan Fluery

In our continuing series profiling our translators, we meet Edvan Fluery, a native of Amazon, Brazil and one of our Portuguese linguists.

In The News: The World’s First 3D-printed Jet Engine and much more

What if lives could be saved through human head/body transplants? This week in the news, an Italian surgeon claims that the procedure of grafting one’s head onto another person’s body could take place in just two years.