Language is Everything

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Humber Retail Week is organised by Business Link Yorkshire and designed to support and inspire the retail industry in the region with a series of free workshops, mobile unit presentations and events.

Tonight, Carolyn Burgess (the chairman of Language is Everything) will be hosting an event in Willerby with Jacqueline Gold, the chief executive of Ann Summers and Knickerbox (see flyer below).

Opportunities in China

Carolyn Burgess, our chairman, was on BBC Radio Humberside this morning to talk about this afternoon's Doing Business in China event at the WTC Hull & Humber.

Along with the China-Britain Business Council, we're one of the keynote speakers at the seminar. The theme of our presentation, which looks at the language and cultural aspects of doing business in China, is a quote from Deng Xiaoping's former English interpreter (see our first slide below).



The half-day seminar is part of a series of events to follow the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race, which has just arrived in Qingdao, China.

Language skills for work, life and employability

 

Language is Everything has taken part in Now You're Talking, an "engaging and motivating" DVD that aims to raise awareness of the importance of studying a language in today’s competitive environment.

You can find out more about the project here, and you can watch the DVD here.

Lift-off to Libya

Language is Everything has featured in a recent news story about how the World Trade Centre Hull & Humber has helped Towne Lifting and Testing, an engineering company, gain access to the Libyan market. You can read the full story here. The picture below shows Chris Towne (the managing director of Towne Lifting and Testing), Stephanie Duodu (from Language is Everything) and Tony Howard (the chairman of the World Trade Centre Hull & Humber).

Meanwhile, proof that we are indeed an 'above-average' company (!): our team has won the annual charity quiz night run by Reed Specialist Recruitment. The event was organised in partnership with Language is Everything, and the proceeds went to the Victoria Climbié appeal, a cause which our chairman, Carolyn Burgess, is closely associated with.

"The questions were really hard," said Hannah Brigham, our trainee manager, who was part of the winning team. "And there was only one question related to language and culture: which country does beef stroganoff come from?"