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Procurex Ireland 2017 – a quick summary On April 25th TRANSLIT exhibited at Procurex Ireland 2017 at the RDS Exhibition Centre, Dublin. We were delighted to attend as this event would give us a chance to showcase our company’s services directly to Ireland’s buying community. The event will also help us understand the future of

Verbal and nonverbal communication. Do we need both?   Have you ever come across a saying of an ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle “Man is by nature a social animal”? Don’t take him wrong, he didn’t mean to offend human beings comparing us to animals. Quite on the contrary, Aristotle spotted in human nature something that

This article focuses on intercultural communication. It uses the theory of  Edward T. Hall who examines anthropological view of culture including communication. Edward T. Hall was an anthropologist who made early discoveries of key cultural factors. In particular, he discovered and examined high and low context cultural factors, moreover. In a high-context culture, there are

  Writing an article can never be so much fun as if you are writing about topic you like and come on, who does not like food? Hope you enjoy reading this as much as you would enjoy eating! But be prepared, your taste buds will be challenged while reading!   Introduction Food Food! What

Introducing Spanglish Due to the migration of Spanish speakers to the United States of America, the latter became the country with the biggest Spanish speakers community just after Mexico (even more than Spain itself!). As communities from Central America, South America and Spain populated the USA during these last decades, Spanish became the second most

This poem is unique and very difficult to read for non-English speakers. Many people cannot read this poem out loud. Will you? Just to warn you, after trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour rather than read six lines aloud! If you can pronounce correctly every word in this

A short Reminder Artificial languages are languages whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary have been entirely created by an individual or a group of people instead of having naturally evolved over time in a civilisation. But why would people invent a new language? Will you ask. There are more reasons than we expect and they primarily

Introduction “The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale”. This definition from the Oxford Dictionary only underlines the emerged part of the iceberg. In fact, we can see that life became easier with globalization – not only for businesses but for individuals too – thanks