China has for many years been a major contributor in the role of technology. ... But China is indeed better than at any time in its modern history. ... This would not be a good way to approach the Chinese. China bases their decisions more off actions than verbal promises. ... (Perkowski, 2011) A good strategy in China would be to assemble a local team capable of understanding and translating the culture. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Japan however began their military build up well before China. ... When Chinese and Japanese soldiers met in Korea Chinas forced had amassed to 350,000 men and seventy one ships (Iriye 14, 15) Even though China outnumbered Japan, Japan was still able to overcome Chinese forces. ... This translated into being 10 to even 20 percent of the countries annual income went to military spending. ... One example of this is when Chinese forces clashed with U.S. forces. China had been given weapons, money and training by the Soviet Union as to keep China as a communist ally. ...

• Word Count: 1610
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Why squander millions of taxpayer's dollars for ballots to be translated with a high possibility of translation errors? ... Chances are that the translation doesn't come out to great either. In New York City's 1993 Chinese ballot erroneously printed the Chinese character for no as a translation for yes. But the worst translation of all is oral translation. ... The translations have large errors and help for fraud too. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

My interest in Chinese New Year come from my yearly visits to China town during the celebration. ... The origin of the Chinese New Year begins with the Chinese calendar which originates from Wan-nien-li. ... The new calendar was named in his honor Wan-nien-li, which can be translated into a 'perpetual calendar'. ... Perhaps it was not a coincidence that his name is literary translated to ten-thousand years, everlasting, forever or perpetual. ... In china political and econo...

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• Grade Level: High School

This was a huge deal because many people in Midwest America had never seen a person of Chinese descent before. ... Porter was the man predominantly responsible for the advertising strategies for the Kues, "Porter chose the name Hong Wah Kues, which translates into overseas Chinese.... As a collective majority, America did not completely accept the Chinese. ... "They also set out and connected with Chinese Americans living in the communities they visited.... "For example, a local Chinese American family in Amarillo, Texas made wonton soup for them....

• Word Count: 889
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Translating a website isn't as simple as handing over content to translators who know Spanish, French, German, and Chinese. ... Pepsi, for example, translated its promotional material in China, where its slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" translates into "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave." ... Black, a color that symbolizes hipness and sophistication in the United States, symbolizes death and bad luck in China. ...

• Word Count: 1566
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• Grade Level: High School

Required language translations included Spanish, German, Italian, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean. ... To achieve this translation goal, several alternatives were carefully considered. ... " SDL intelligent Machine Translation (SDL iMT) is the intelligent combination of translation automation software with linguistic skills, delivering up to three times the translation throughput of traditional human translation. ... Translation Memory is maintained to ensure sentences are only translated once. The whole process is controlled by the SDL Translation Management System. ...

• Word Count: 1994
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even within the Chinese-American market, the language spoken will vary with the individual's place of origin, (e.g., Mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan). ... Despite the increase in immigration and foreign languages spoken at home, marketers who take existing general market advertising and translate it verbatim to the target consumer language, are treading on shaky ground. ... The promotion went awry because the number two in some Chinese communities is close to the word for "easy." ... In another case, a marketer offered green baseball caps as premiums during a ...

• Word Count: 1573
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• Grade Level: High School

For the past forty years, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Japan have been fighting over a territory dispute for five uninhabited islands and three rocks in the East China Sea, of which Japan currently has "administrative control". ... In the late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as "belonging to no one" ("Narrative," 2012). ... Furthermore, China declares that Japan's 1985 terra nullius claim to the Senkaku islands was conveniently during China's...

• Word Count: 2908
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some move to ethnic pockets, such as New York City's Chinatown or Miami's Little Havana, where Chinese and Spanish respectively are sometimes more common than English" (Redemske 1 ). ... Although it may be helpful for immigrants to be able to have their own language translated, but it also encourages them to not learn the English language. ... It seems that many immigrants are refusing to learn English because they have easy access to translated materials, such as books, voting registrations, and etc. ... Jane Inouye declares, "When the need arises, bilingual employees ar...

• Word Count: 2316
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Have you ever had been in a situation where you had to translate for your family member so another peer could understand? ... With her Mother from China, English is not the first language spoken. ... I had to translate for my mother saying that she is asking where to exit. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Countries like Mexico, China, and Taiwan are becoming very valuable economically to the business practices of American Companies. ... On the other side of the American borders companies in such countries and China and Mexico are sending their employees overseas to America in hopes of these employees learning English. ... Just like the ones that have been seen in science fiction movies with devices like these it is actually possible now speak with some now English speaking person and have the machine translate the message for you. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, quoting from the advertising agency Lowe UK's 2002 HSBC television campaign, "In the U.K. it is deemed disrespectful not to finish a meal provided by your host whereas in China, if you do, it is questioning the generosity of your host" Secondly, each element of culture influences each component of the marketing mix. ... Translations errors, particularly with qualitative research, can misinterpret the true needs and desires of a target market. ...

• Word Count: 2515
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition to the ten billion dollars the government pays annually for bilingual education, governments spend millions to provide translations and other bilingual services. ... Americans speak English, not Spanish, Russian, Chinese, or any other language. ...

• Word Count: 1342
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• Grade Level: High School

She told him voy en camino which translates to I'm on my way, but if you are from Mexico or if you're related to our culture you know that does not mean that you are literally on your car driving towards work, it just means that you are soon to be on your way. ... When I worked for a small company here in San Antonio the owner had a problem with a Chinese delegate, not because of the language but because he did something that in their culture is perfectly normal and he took it as an insult. ...

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Little Saigon assists the newly arrived immigrants with a line of offices that provide translation services, school and job application assistance, English language classes, and employment that requires little or no skills. ... Although built and owned by an ethnic Chinese, Frank Jao, Asian Garden Mall is the centerpiece of Little Saigon, exhibiting more Vietnamese ethnic pride and cultural tenacity (Lieu 41). ...

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His confidence and ability to argue his opinion with his experience in business and a family man definitely translates well across on television screens, he is able to use sympathetic language to persuade Americans to vote for him, by using a lot of examples of touring states on the campaign and using real life grievances that Americans have, especially in unemployment to place blame on current policies of Obama . ... However his ideas of lowering spending, eliminating programs that do not pass certain tests and being very reluctant to borrow from china and an policy of attrition for me doesn&...

• Word Count: 1684
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• Grade Level: Graduate

s "net foreign debt was more than 1 trillion and was increasing at an annual rate of 15 to 20 percent, with Japan owning almost $300 billion and China more than $50 billion in U.S. treasury bonds" (Huntington 28). ... The U.S. national debt stands at over $5 trillion dollars, and that translates into over $19,000 for every man, every woman, and every child in America. ...

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With so many countries in possession of nuclear weapons – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea, to name a few –aren't these countries at risk of either being infiltrated or coerced into providing terrorists access to the weapons. ...

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