AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Correct Spanish content.(Letter to the Editor)
Our company, SpanishTech, provides bilingual marketing and technology integration for the Hispanic market. (Our Web site is www.spanishtech.com.) We were working on the translation of a school district bond and fund appropriation, and we ran into lots of terms related to energy-efficient units. While doing some research, we found an article on your Web site, "?Como Se Dice 'Retrofitter'?" (May/June '94, p. 41). I believe it is our obligation to let you know that the terms used in your article are not all properly translated.
Most of the terms in the glossary are helpful, and about 70% of the terms are accurate. There are some terms that are just wrong; this seems to be the result of a direct word-to-word translation.
A utility room is not a "lavadora." "Lavadora" comes from "lavar," and it means, in Spanish, "to wash." A "lavandera" is a person who executes the action. Before washing machines existed a lavandera was the person who washed clothes. Nowadays, "lavadora," or "maquina de lavar," is ...
- VCs head to Spain: it isn't difficult to attract some of Silicon Valley's...
- Newspaper article from: European Venture Capital Journal Stokes, Robert July 1, 2007 700+ words
...in Madrid and Valencia during The Spanish Tech Tour 2007 (STT). Sven Lingjaerde...entrepreneurs with impressive pedigrees in Spanish, European and US business schools...try telling that to the bulk of Spanish investors. STT Vice president Rodolfo...
- Spanish tech companies prepare delegation - Chile .
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 27, 2003 700+ words
...News Americas) (BNamericas.com) - Spanish software companies are sending a trade...Bankoi, and 3000 Informatica are among the Spanish companies that will be participating in...technology exporters association and the Spanish foreign trade institute ICEX are organizing...
- Bona's 'logical next step': new Spanish tech support.(News)(BonaKemi USA...
- Magazine article from: National Floor Trends December 1, 2006 700+ words
...maker BonaKemi USA has launched a technical support line for Spanish-speaking users. According to Todd Schutte, Bona's director...noted. "The addition of this toll-free number dedicated to Spanish-speaking distributors, contractors, architects, specifiers...
- Technology: AxiCom enters Madrid amid Spanish tech boom.
- Newspaper article from: PR Week (UK) October 6, 2006 700+ words
...spent eight years in tech PR, advising clients including Sun Microsystems, BT and the Computer Sciences Corporation. 'The Spanish IT sector grew by ten per cent in 2005 and its visibility with international consumer and B2B tech businesses is increasing...
- Diversity on the rise.(companies now offer ESL training for...
- Magazine article from: The Business Journal-Milwaukee Mader, Becca September 21, 2001 700+ words
...safety and wages in both English and Spanish, not much had been done in the...In the Hire Center's Milwaukee Spanish Tech Track program, classes on computer...industrial maintenance are taught in Spanish by a bilingual instructor. Technical...
- Facilities flourish.(movie post-production labs)(Focus: Madrid - special...
- Magazine article from: Variety Gillon, Ray Holland, Jonathan April 20, 1998 700+ words
Madrid Spanish post-production houses are responding...interest in postproduction. Also, revamped Spanish technical services are becoming an increasingly...director of the Madrid Film laboratory. Spanish tech facilities are not cheap by European...
- President and COO Anthony Ibarguen Resigns to Pursue New Opportunity; Nestor...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 1, 1999 700+ words
...Informatica, a Barcelona- based reseller. He is fluent in Catalan, which is his native language, as well as English and Spanish. "Tech Data is particularly well-positioned right now and winning more business every day," Cano pointed out. "I feel...
- Tech, communications firms partner to back transport project - Chile .
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire May 17, 2004 700+ words
(From Business News Americas) Byline: Dan Abrams, George Lewis, Mark Mullen (BNamericas.com) - Spanish tech firms Soluziona and Indra have joined forces with Telefonica Empresas Chile and Chilean telematics firm Movilmaster to bid for...
- Adara makes first exit.(Tessera Inc. acquires Eyesquad from Adara...
- Newspaper article from: European Venture Capital Journal April 1, 2007 700+ words
Spanish tech VC Adara Venture has sold Eyesquad, a German specialist in micro-camera technology, to Tessera, a US electronics business...
- Tech news roundup - Regional.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 13, 2006 700+ words
...BNamericas.com) - Uruguay's largest insurer, state-run Banco de Seguros del Estado (BSE), has selected Spanish tech firm Indra for the development and implementation of a solution oriented to the online administration of group work...