Hello there!  I'm Jeff N Marquis at the business desk and I hope that everyone is getting ready to enjoy a great weekend. 
Today, I have important headlines to share with you; all about a shifting landscape and I invite you now to read on.
Enjoy your weekend.

 

Week of Feb 20
Foreign language jobs and careers identified

 

How easy is it to help someone learn English when they can only communicate in Chinese?
Is this a worthwhile project?
You would be surprised to learn!  Please read on.
How do I help someone who only speaks/reads Chinese? - English ...
... NO English at all. If she were a Spanish speaker, I would feel more comfortable helping her as I have a little knowledge of Spanish. But she speaks Chinese! I can communicate with her on a basic level by using Google's translator, ...
Latest Activity on English Companion... -
http://englishcompanion.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-best-teacher 

 

If you were to learn Chinese, would it help you to find a great job in China?
Or, would it just help you to compete with the rest?
Please read on.
China Economics Blog: Does learning Chinese lead to a good job in ...
By Economist
That is, of course, unless your career goals are purely linguistic in nature (i.e. Chinese teacher, interpreter, or translator). More often than not, expats who learn Chinese and return home, find their way back into the same career (or ... According to the US census, in 2006 there were 2.5 million** people in the United States who speak Chinese at home. That's more than any language other than English and Spanish. What this means is that not even counting the hundreds of ...
China Economics Blog -
http://china-economics-blog.blogspot.com/ 
 
How is Twitter doing when it comes to offering foreign language support?
Would you like to know?
Please read on.
Seattle Language Translation, Localization, Globalization ...
By L. Le
While Twitter is behind in this language support race, they have quickly added Italian, French and Spanish within the last month in response. Difficulty in localizing Asian languages is their reason for not supporting more of this market. Plurk doesn't seem to have the same issue, but this may also have to do with their language strategy. They send out an e-mail with a string of English to volunteer translators to localize the content and send it back. ...
_ - http://www.dynamiclanguageblog.com/ 

 

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