The young companies in big European capitals are able to draw upon a global, multilingual work force accustomed to moving between different languages and cultures.
Peter Constantine, who has won many awards for his staggeringly multilingual work in translating Chekhov, Thomas Mann, Voltaire, and Sophocles (among others), has translated "The Prince" with the stated intention of winning its author the status of "a major stylist, a writer of beautiful prose".
That may be of necessity: Globalization means more multilingual work teams, such as the several-nation group that put together the new Ford Focus.
He became a US citizen and because of his multilingual abilities, worked briefly for the Office of War Information.
An interactive (rather than didactic) approach to training a multilingual group worked well.
The strengthening of the euro and more efficient flights have led Europeans to consider Hawaii, said Manu Spaur, broker/owner of ReMax Island Surf Realty on the Big Island of Hawaii, whose multilingual staff is working to develop the European market.
The strength of this study was that it included several different professions in order to investigate the experiences of those working in multilingual elderly healthcare, studied by different qualitative methods of data collection such as individual and focus group interviews [ 30].
Mostly informants felt that family members as interpreters were the second best choice, as they fitted in with existing routines, ways of working in multilingual elderly healthcare and the family members' role as an integral part of the caring relationship and their involvement in the care of elderly.
But although it is boxed attractively with a multilingual flier, it worked so poorly that I had to go looking to that flier for help and found none.
Once MySpace teams with a powerful search engine, goes multilingual (if that works) and continues expanding into new verticals like the new Books section – then we'll see if building on the basic social functions the site is famous for will make it stronger.
