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Cross-Cultural Communication skills is a relatively new term, referring to the ability to recognize cultural differences and similarities when dealing with someone from another culture and ability to recognize features of own behavior which are affected by culture.

 



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Sisulizer - for visual software localization

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

If there is a review that really fits into this blog - it should be about Sisulizer: the Visual Software Localization Tool. So, I was quite happy when the company asked for a review of their software. Yes, this is a paid post via ReviewMe!.
I have localized software back when it was called simply translation […]

Born bilingual?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Yes, I know, nobody has ever been born as “bilingual” or “bicultural”. However, if a child is born in a crosscultural marriage, i.e. the parents are from different cultural and lingusitic background - will have have much better chances to become bilingual than others.
Recently I was browsing language related sites through StumbleUpon and came across […]

Translation tool

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I just recently discovered this little translation gizmo (click the button ont the left). From the many applications I’ve tried it is on of the smartest: it knows grammar and syntax much better than many machine translators. Of course, this little free tool will not translate your whole website - it has its own […]

WordPress as a real multilingual CMS with Gengo

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Recently we set up a complete bilingual content management system (CMS) using WordPress with the Gengo plugin. We didn’t need it but even more languages could be added in order to get a full multilingual system. Or, a blog for that matter. Let me describe the procedure and the end result with the benefits.
The website […]

Multilingual blogging revisited

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Earlier I’ve posted about the multilingual efforts for blogging with WordPress. Although the demand is out there not much happened since.
Last month, however, the 0.7 version of a great new plugin was released for multilingual bloggers. It’s called Gengo and you can download it from Jamie Talbot’s website.
Here is its description from the author’s […]