On the 7th day of the 7th lunar month of the lunar calendar, Qixi (Chinese: 七夕节 qixijie; literally “The Night of Sevens”) Festival is celebrated. This year, the celebration falls in August 25th. Happy Qixi Festival! Hold on, what is that? Qixi Festival is the equivalent of Lovers Day or St. Valentine’s day celebrated in
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Leo Li 李昂, from MTS Interpreting Department loves exploring the world and capturing its beauty from behind his camera lenses. Today, August 19th 2020, World Photography Day, we are honoured to share with you some of Leo’s gems from his travels around the world. Enjoy Leo’s art! Words Seldom we (translators) fail to
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Hey there! It’s Friday! And just because of that we want to celebrate the great job that Translation Project Managers constantly do by sharing this hilarious comic stripe by young Spanish illustrator and Translation PM Lara Carrión Borgoñós aka @melancomica Thanks, Lara! We are sure you belong to the good
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From the China offices of Master Translations we would like to extend our best wishes to all the Chinese students taking 高考 (gaokao), the national university entrance examinations, this week! Good luck with your examinations! 高考加油！ This is a very decisive point of Chinese students’ lives and all their efforts will be rewarded!
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The Dragon Boat Festival is a Chinese national holiday that falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. This traditional festival commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a classical Chinese poet who contributed to Chinese culture greatly. This year, the celebration falls on June 25th to 27th. As it is customary, with every
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Enjoy the city skies with this time-lapse video of Amoy!
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When is World Book Day? Why is it so important in Spain? 23 April is International Book Day. Spaniards celebrate it to commemorate distinguished Miguel de Cervantes, the world-famous La Mancha writer, author of Don Quixote and to encourage reading. Manchegos like me are not only proud of the best vino and queso in the
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My good friend Ana has taken up her first job in the translation industry. I asked how she was doing and her response stunned me: – Girl, they are my babies. I am their sitter. I beg your paaardon? I did not quite get it. Did she mean under-aged translators? Is that even legal? Those must
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口译员招聘广告 Part-time remote job offers for freelance interpreters Job description: OPI (Over-the-phone) and VRI (Video Remote Interpreting) interpretation jobs. Independent Contractors/Freelance interpreters needed for over-the-phone and video remote consecutive interpretation to/from Mandarin Chinese and one of the following: English, Italian, Spanish (LatAm & ES), French, German, Portuguese (BR & PT), Polish, Russian, Arabic, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Thai,
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From MTS China we would like to share the preventive measures taken at one of our offices so that you, your employees, coworkers and freelancers can all stay safe during the coronavirus outbreak. If possible, allow your employees to work remotely. It is the safest way to prevent the virus from spreading. We did that
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