Education and career

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Learn language

How many words do you need to know to speak a foreign language?

When learning a new language, you first start with simple basic knowledge. This includes the most common verbs, a few typical nouns and at least the personal pronouns. With this you can already formulate simple sentences, but a conversation is not possible with so little vocabulary. How large does the vocabulary have to be so that you can say you "speak" the language?

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Languages and translation on the internet

How important is good website translation for a company

 

A good website translation determines how well customers find their way around the homepage in the respective languages. Every company lives on communication. Communication is the most important thing in every organisation and in every company all over the world. Communication exists not only between the company and its customers, but to a large extent through business relationships between different companies.

Communication in different languages brings with it a great responsibility. It is not only about product information, but also about internationally used documentation, which is becoming increasingly important due to global cooperation. That is why the demand for professional translation services has increased extremely in recent years.

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International culture and language

How important is good translation in a multicultural age?

How important is good translation? The importance of good quality translation in our daily lives is very complex. Translations pave the way for global cooperation and make international relations in technology, politics and science possible.
Although communication between different nations is now largely in English, the native mother tongue is as strong as ever. The internet makes it easy to reach a global audience and therefore good quality translations have become a foundation. The need for translation in various fields such as education, mass communication, science and technology, literature, tourism, religion, commerce and business has become enormous.

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Homeworkers

How to motivate and work with home workers

 

How to motivate and work with home-based workers: Managing home-based workers, i.e. employees who work from home, often requires extra work, but is definitely worth it in the end for the employer.
Contrary to the trend towards "collaboration" in open-plan offices, market research shows that employees are happier and more productive overall when they work mainly from home.

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Marketing emails

How to use the most important rules of thumb for email marketing

 

Email marketing is more than just sending emails to potential customers. In the daily flood of emails, you want your email to stand out and capture the customer's interest. The most important thing is to get the customer to open the email. After that, it's a matter of engaging and convincing them. How to make email marketing successful?

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Open plan office

Why open plan offices are bad for productivity

 

Are open-plan offices bad for productivity?: Many companies swear by open-plan offices because it is economically more rational to put all employees in one large room instead of having to offer several offices. However, anyone who has ever worked in an open-plan office knows that they make productive work much more difficult.

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