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One Song. One Wish. 156 Countries. ONE LOVE.

In just over one year, contributions equivalent to 14 million days of medicine have been donated to people living with HIV in Africa through the Starbucks Love Project. On December 7 of last year, Starbucks and (RED) celebrated with a worldwide singing event of the Beatles classic “All you need is love” and for every [...]

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Five Records or Song about the Translator with No Reply

Think Latin America

Celebrating 10 years, Ccaps partners up with IMTT to put together this exclusive event where some of the world’s most famous brands will reveal the secret to their success in the Latin American market. Extreme Localization Makeover In April 2010, the Rio de Janeiro beach town of Buzios will set the stage for a special gathering of [...]

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Call the Reviewer!

You know that phrase, “I am out of the office at the moment” that commences auto response messages in business emails? Well, guess where it ended up? On a traffic sign in Wales! And did it cause some confusion! It all started when someone in the traffic department in the city of Swansea (or Abertawe in [...]

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Reviewer: Partner to the Author

The Ccaps Facebook Page

Hello Everyone! In the modern technical age of online social networking and marketing, Ccaps has decided to create a Facebook page in order to better communicate with our clients, friends, colleagues and other industry professionals. We will share the latest information about Ccaps, our staff, events and industry news. We would love for you to join [...]

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Language Follies

We are taking a break for Carnival. And the best way we found to combine partying and translation was to present you with Caetano Veloso singing ‘Língua,’ a song whose clever lyrics are all about the beauty of the Portuguese language. In this video, Caetano is accompanied by samba singer Elza Soares in a TV show [...]

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Word Olympics

OK, everyone. Stretch those jaw muscles and warm up those tongues because we are training for the Word Olympics in today’s Ccaps Blog post. Do you have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia? If so, you might want to stop reading this post now. According to the Wiktionary, hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of big words. The word is actually a derivative [...]

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Certain Mismatches, Possible Matches

Every human being has a tendency to retract from what they do not know and, in these situations, they mostly go through a permanent state of embarrassment and discomfort. On the other hand, the same way we are subjected to anxiety caused by strangeness, we cannot reject the chance to identify when having experiences with [...]

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We Love Technology!

Hello all! Remember when a while back I wrote about fun new cell phone translation technology in the post Cool! Where Can I Get One? Well folks, now we can all have our own translation technology literally at our fingertips. Fotozio launched the first free iPhone photo translator application, PicTranslator, which turns the iPhone camera into [...]

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Never Misunderestimate Bush – Part 3

“One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.” Washington, DC. June 6, 2008 Trust me, I am trying to forget all the falsities created in politics. “We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.” Washington, DC. June 2, 2008 We can just buy that, right? For much again? “And [...]

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Make Way for the Portuguese Language

During the 12th Ibero-American Conference of Ministers of Culture, which took place in Portugal in April 2009, Maria Simón, Minister of Education and Culture of Uruguay, announced that in early 2010, the Portuguese language will be adopted as the second official language in the country. This means that the discipline will have to be part [...]

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