by Mimi Moore | Nov 8, 2023 | Culture & Tradition, Language Spotlight
10 Areas to Define in your Language Access Plan Earlier this year, Avantpage teamed up with the Athena Group, a women- and minority-owned consulting firm focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), to host a virtual event on how to forge connections and build...
by Mimi Moore | Apr 19, 2023 | Culture & Tradition, Interpreting Services, Language Spotlight, Video remote interpreting
Climate change could have grave consequences on the world’s linguistic diversity With Earth Day right around the corner, climate change and environmentalism are top of mind for us — and probably for you too. While conversations about climate change often center around...
by Avantpage | May 31, 2021 | Culture & Tradition, Language Spotlight, Localization, Over-the-phone interpreting, Translation
The recognition of the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage was introduced in 1977 but it was in 1992 that Congress passed Public Law 102-450 which designated May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Why the month of May? It was chosen by the Congress to...
by Avantpage | Dec 17, 2020 | Desktop Publishing, Language Spotlight, Specialized Translation, Translation, Translation Resources
Working with uncommon languages can present various challenges. Here are our tips for success in your rare language translation project: First: Make sure you have the right language Some languages have dialect variations among regions or...
by Avantpage | Nov 23, 2020 | Language Spotlight
As we keep on working from home and searching for new sources of inspiration, we at Avantpage have continued our Book Club initiative. Our second pick was Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, by linguist and former missionary...
by Avantpage | Sep 22, 2020 | Language Spotlight
The fact that translation accompanies us in each aspect of our everyday life is undeniable. Very often, we do not even pay attention to its existence. However, there is a specific field of interpreting which has flourished with the technological expansion over the...
