Everyone always talks to me about translating their website to Chinese – what do you suggest?.Tour guide is completely different of course right? But many times, this can overlap or? And business tour guide exists? It’s not just for pleasure travel right?.If a business person is traveling to Hong Kong or China for a trade show and visiting businesses and factories – they may need one of these services, or all? Can you help listeners decide what service they may even consider needing?.And from one “direction” to another “direction” are different right? For example, someone may be good at doing English to Cantonese, but not as effective the other way around – Cantonese to English?.And then when a business needs help in written and spoken – these are different specialities right?.– InterpreterWhat are they, are they the same, what are the differences? ![]() First, let’s start with some definitions – I think I am even still confused - Linguist.Introduction of Retta and her business, ACLS Language and Training Solutions.Let’s get into this Topics Covered in this Episode Being in Hong Kong and overall Asia, its a necessity to deal with all kinds of languages – with Cantonese, English, and more and more Mandarin inside Hong Kong – 3 languages is overwhelming. I have to be honest, I am bad at foreign languages – I think I’m a spoiled American who got away with dealing in English my entire child life. We’ve had so many podcasts and still haven’t discussed yet translation and interpretation. ![]() So now for the show – we have Loretta, also known as Retta, Tam from ACLS language and training solutions in Hong Kong giving us an overview of the translation industry in Hong Kong so let’s listen in. Thanks for recognizing our podcasts and promoting them on the show – I have a feeling the owner, Brent Deverman was the man behind the scenes making that one happen as I know he is a regular listener – so thanks for that Brent! Some fun updates – our podcast GlobalFromAsia was featured in Shenzhen the other day alongside another good friend JP’s Chinabusinesscast podcast. Subscribe: RSS Thanks for tuning in – we are now at episode 44 and I’m recording today on Chinese Valentine’s day! This year it is on Saturday August 2nd, 2014 and it’s never the same day as it follows the lunar calendar instead of the Western Solar calendar – a bit tricky and lucky enough I found out from a wechat message from a friend a couple days ahead of time else my wife would have killed me! Got her some Hong Kong women’s perfume and other goods I carried across the border the other day
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