Blog&News
How language gives your brain a break
2015-08-05Here’s a quick task: Take a look at the sentences below and decide which is the most effective. (1) “John threw out the old trash sitting in the kitchen.” (2) “John threw the old trash sitting in the kitchen out.” Either sentence is grammatically acceptable, but you probably found the first one to be more natural. Why? Perhaps because of the placement of the word “ou
In So Many Words: minute world with big stories to tell
2015-07-31All the team jumped up and down, hugged each other and screamed, happy: after a long trip that started many years ago, their space-car had finally reached the farthest world going around the sun: the Hell-God World. There are three times three worlds going around the sun. Our Home World is one of them, and it is number three. The others are all called after old gods, and the most far-
No translation needed to speak football
2015-07-29A social cohesion initiative in Melbourne is using football to break down cultural barriers between teens. The "I Speak Football" program in Dandenong - in Melbourne's east - is removing language as a barrier to friendship. The program allows Australian teens, migrants and refugees to bond over a common love of the game and youth facilitator at the project, Malesh Jada-EileE
The Connection Between Music and Language
2015-07-27Music making seems to occur, in some form or another, in all human societies. Although musical behaviour varies in sophistication, music itself seems to be universal across all human cultures and plays a key part in rituals of all varieties, and the origins of these practices seem very ancient. There’s a theory that music is about more than just entertainment and emotional st
Learn Their Culture & Win
2015-07-24I recently returned from a tour of 6 European countries during which I had time to think about the cultural nuances of each. While English was widely spoken and all the countries I visited boasted a patina of international sophistication and used a common currency (the euro), each also had its own language not to mention its own local architectural style and regional mealtime favorites.
The power of translation
2015-07-23IDRT's current SBIR award includes research on gesture recognition technology through the AcceleGlove, a high-tech glove embedded with sensors. It works with 3-D camera technology to capture hand movements. AcceleGlove has implications beyond ASL translation. It could replace a joystick to maneuver sensitive robotics--the kind that venture into dangerous environments or control heavy machinery.
Insights into Global Programmatic Advertising
2015-07-22Programmatic advertising brings some big advantages to the international marketer. Buying your ads programmatically (using software and technology rather than manual input) is much more efficient than the human-input methods, which often involved negotiating with ad space suppliers and their intermediaries. It certainly saves time compared to manually inserting the ads into eac
Working to remove language barriers
2015-07-21The Jewish Family Services held a special training session to help break language barriers occurring for immigrants and refugees living and working in Buffalo. WBFO's Eileen Buckley says a recent training session provided best practices for those who don't speak English. "At the beginning of the event, you are asked to find your and your name is in a different language," said Apple Domingo, New A
The 5 foreign words every manager should know
2015-07-20Since the 1980s, we've seen management circles toy with proven concepts from other nations. Trouble is, we didn't always execute them fully or correctly. Worse yet, we didn't ask if a business concept from another culture was right for us to begin with. And no, I don't mean fahrvergnugen. But while results might have been mixed, there is virtue in being open to foreign methods. Some c
The Magic Of Words
2015-07-15The philosopher George Berkeley famously argued (contra John Locke) that we can never have truly abstract ideas — ideas stripped of all particulars and details. When I think of a triangle, I imagine a particular triangle, not some abstract idea of "triangle." When I think of a dog, I imagine a golden retriever or a Yorkie or a mutt — not a "general" dog that embodies only the essence of "dogne
