Unless you set your priorities straight and thoroughly think about where your life is headed, you will end up regretting the following 10 things 10 years from now: Not working towards leaving the job you hate Not getting rid...
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Recruiters, Human Resources Managers, and all employers for that matter need to take a step back and realize that everybody deserves a chance. To climb the ladder, you start from the bottom and work your way up. it's the ONLY way to go! In the translation industry,...
Recruiters, Human Resources Ma...
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English-speaking countries/lands call the French National Day "Bastille Day", which is celebrated on July 14 of each year. In France, it is formally called la Fête nationale (The National Celebration) and commonly and legally "le 14 juillet" (the fourteenth of July). The French National Day marks France’s...
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Welcome to Lebanon, the country notorious for celebratory gunfire, the country where everyone and their mother is a public figure or a social media influencer, and also the country where almost everyone is proudly a trilingual. I've been updating my Instagram consistently but making it a...
Welcome to Lebanon, the countr...
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"Once upon a time, a woodcutter asked for a job with a timber merchant, and he got it. The pay was really good and so were the work conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an...
"Once upon a time, a woodcutte...
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Disclaimer: This is not your typical lovey dovey, 100% positive blogiversary post. There will be some serious bomb dropping below. Dear reader, if you are a Lebanese colleague and you can't handle it, I advise you not to scroll down. I'm writing this as I sip...
Disclaimer: This is not your t...
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Today Google remembers the late Assia Djebar (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015) with a doodle. Born Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, the berber-speaking Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker, whose father is a French teacher, chose Assia Djebar as her pen name for fear of her father's disapproval. In 1957, she published her...
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The below joke made my day :D "Le français est une langue magnifique" J'ai passé un coup de fil à un ami, et je lui ai demandé ce qu'il faisait. Il m'a répondu qu'il travaillait sur: Le traitement aqua-thermique des céramiques, du verre, de l'aluminium et de l'acier sous...
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The world is divided into 2 kinds of people: coffee people, and everyone else. To me, there's nothing quite like the smell of a freshly brewed cup of coffee first thing in the morning, and although I am what everyone considers a morning person (and I...
The world is divided into 2 ki...
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I know I've been quite quiet lately (yes, I wrote that on purpose. Quite...
I know I've been quite quiet l...
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I must admit, when I first graduated, and just like all my other colleagues, I used to charge per page, because when you still have no experience, you take it from those who've been there and done that before you. Charging for language services per word...
I must admit, when I first gra...
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While there are pluses and minuses for everything in life, learning is the only thing that has no disadvantages in my opinion, especially when it is learning a new language. Below are the top 5 things that happen when you learn a new language. 1- You become...
While there are pluses and min...
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James Chapman is the cartoonist who's pretty much fond of languages. I love all his illustrations and how he simplifies language learning through his drawings. In this blog post, I will be sharing some of his illustrations which he brilliantly calls "Soundimals": animal sounds in different...
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Award winning Arab architect Zaha Hadid, who died last year of a heart attack at the age of 65, is being honored in today's Google doodle. May 31 marks the anniversary of the day she won the Pritzker Architecture Award, becoming the first woman to do so....
Award winning Arab architect Z...
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My brother sent me this story via Whatsapp a few days ago and I found it pretty interesting so I had to share it: During a robbery in Guangzhou, China, the bank robber shouted to everyone in the bank: "Don't move. The money belongs to the...
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