From a recruitment perspective, the second half of the year has been very active as we continue to welcome new employees across our global platform. Our selection criteria are high and congratulations to those that have made it onto the team. It will be a fun ride!

Wishing everyone a happy Holiday Season!

Best,

Mark Williams - CEO

Once again this has been a very busy quarter at Global Lingo and the contents of this newsletter will provide a window to some of our activities and successes over the past few months.

This is also a good time of the year to thank employees, clients and partners for engaging with Global Lingo in 2018. We have many people to thank and we will do our best to send everyone our best wishes before the start of the holidays.

I have the task of looking to the future and 2019 promises to be a very busy year. We have many initiatives underway at Global Lingo, the most exciting being further enhancements to our Technology platform enabling us to improve, among other things, engagement with our clients and timelines for turnaround. We launch in Quarter One 2019 and will provide an update on the improved functionality in our Winter Newsletter.

Autumn 2018

Newsletter

Welcome! Willkommen! Bienvenue! Bienvenido! Benvenuto!

Company updates

Following on from last quarter’s Newsletter, where we announced the new look and feel of our website, we have taken it a step further this quarter.

As a global Language Service Provider, we cater for any market and place great importance on thinking locally.

From October, you are now able to access our website in five languages – English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. Your browser settings will determine which language version you are directed to when accessing our website for the first time.

Presenting our company in multiple languages was the logical next step, as we continue to broaden our global reach.

Over the coming year, we will add further language versions to our website as we seek an even wider audience.

#multilingual #FluentCommunications

DevLearnDebuting as an exhibitor at the 2018 DevLearn Expo in Las Vegas in October was a fantastic experience for myself and the team here at Global Lingo. I was joined at the event by my colleagues Chetan Khushal, who has spearheaded our growth as trusted provider in the Learning and Development sector over recent years in Europe, and Marina Mann - Global Lingo’s new Head of Marketing.

Well respected in the L&D sector, this event was an obvious choice for Global Lingo to meet existing and potential clients and partners, to discuss trends in the industry and showcase how our combination of highly skilled linguists with technology can support L&D teams looking to take their programmes global.

Mix in a great venue at the Mirage and the wonderfully contrasting October weather, when compared to our regional offices in London and Chicago; it made for a fantastic few days in Nevada.

A general trend is that the L&D market is globalising at a very fast rate, as learners expect to gain knowledge and training in their native languages. In addition, video learning and gamification continue to grow, and Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality is gaining significance in the learning process – The Swiss Army now use Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality to manage the first half of all basic rifle training, so that novices don’t get access to the weapons themselves until they have full familiarity with how to handle them.

We look forward to working with people we met at DevLearn in the coming months, and we’ll certainly be back in 2019; an event not to be missed on the L&D calendar!

Jonny Bates,

North American Sales Director

ISO 27001:2015 certification Global Lingo has long been committed to protecting the information it holds on behalf of its stakeholders, from its own employees, customers, linguists and suppliers, as well as the general browsing public.

In September this year, we gained certification in ISO 27001:2015, awarded by our external auditors, BM Trada. ISO 27001 is the internationally-recognised standard for information security management systems.

Security underpins every process we have in place at Global Lingo: it dictates how we hire staff, linguists and company suppliers; how we communicate daily with each other, as well as with our external stakeholders; and how we achieve our annual business goals.

Global Lingo’s Information Security team manages technical issues that arise on a day-to-day basis, as well as being responsible for the running of the entire information security management system.

This team builds our annual strategy, evaluates the performance of our system against set goals and targets, and is constantly seeking ways to further improve aspects of the system, while all the time ensuring information availability, integrity and confidentiality.

If you have any questions about our security processes, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the team at information.security@global-lingo.com

GET IN TOUCH WITH GLOBAL LINGOGlobal Lingo partners with organisations around the world. We ensure your content is accurate, consistent, and culturally relevant in any language. We have offices in London (UK), Chicago (USA), Singapore, Cluj (RO) and Frankfurt (DE).

Web: www.global-lingo.com Twitter: @global_lingo Phone: +44 (0) 20 7870 7100 LinkedIn: Global Lingo

Adam MooreMy name is Adam Moore and I joined Global Lingo in July as Business Development Director. I have worked in the industry for nearly 10 years and am really enjoying being part of the Global Lingo team here in London.

Being from Essex, I have just about mastered the English language and can speak some “Spanglish” when needed. I now live in Borough Green in Kent with my girlfriend (who actually speaks German). We both really love our house and enjoy spending time working on our lovely garden together when we can, which is something I thought I would never like…

Outside of work I am an avid golfer and enjoy playing, watching and talking about golf whenever I can. My handicap is currently 10, and my aim is to try and get down into single figures in the next few years. Some would say I have an unhealthy obsession with Tiger Woods, and he is certainly an idol of mine. I also support West Ham United, but people shouldn’t hold this against me.

I love my holidays and travelling to new places. It was my birthday in November, so my girlfriend and I went to Dubai to celebrate!

Frosso Skoteinioti My name is Frosso Skoteinioti and I joined Global Lingo in August this year, working currently as Acting Global Head of Translation and Interpreting Services. I am very happy to be working with such a talented global team and am looking forward to all the things we will achieve.

I am half Greek half Cypriot but have been in the UK for 14 years and am internally clearly experiencing an identity shift! I am a linguist at heart, having completed my degree in English Language and then obtained my MA in Business Translation with Interpreting – both in the UK. I am the kind of person that will shamelessly point out the difference between “your” and “you’re”, “their” and “they’re” if they are being misused.

Outside of correcting people’s grammar and spelling, I have studied several alternative therapies such as Reiki, crystal therapy and hypnotherapy, amongst others. Growing up in Cyprus and Greece, I have a deep love for the sea and will pass no opportunity for a beach holiday which allows me to indulge in my newly-found love for scuba diving. When I am not chasing translators, meditating, or putting on my scuba gear, you can find me lifting heavy weights at the gym. I am currently undertaking Strongwoman training and am hoping to enter a competition in 2019.

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Ingredients

250g icing sugar (plus a little extra)

3 egg whites (size M)

Salt

2 flat tsp cinnamon

350g ground unskinned almonds

Some flour

Baking parchment

Cling film

Prep: 15-30 mins Cook: 15 mins Makes 50

Zimtsterne (Cinnamon Stars)

Around the world

Method

1. Sieve 250g of icing sugar. Beat 3 egg whites and a pinch of salt with an electric whisk until thick and creamy. Add the icing sugar gradually during this process. For the decoration of the stars, put 6-8 Tbsp of meringue to the side. Mix cinnamon and almonds and fold it in with the meringue. Tip for the dough: The dough for the cinnamon star recipe can be used straight away. Leaving it in the fridge for half an hour does, however, improve rolling out and cutting of the dough.

2. Dust your working surface with icing sugar or roll out the dough between two layers cling film to around 0.5cm thickness. Cut out around 50 cinnamon stars. Keep kneading and repeating this process with the remnants of the dough. Preheat the oven (Electric: 150 °C/Fan: 125 °C/Gas: Setting 1). Place the cinnamon star onto baking trays lined with baking parchment.

Tip for cutting out cinnamon stars: To avoid the dough sticking to the cutter, dip it intro flour every now and then. Dust off any excess flour.

3. Use a kitchen brush or rounded knife to cover the cinnamon stars with meringue. Bake the cookies in batches for 15 min. In the oven. Leave to cool down before storage. Tip for storage: Place the cinnamon stars together with an apple wedge into a cookie jar. This will allow you to keep them for around 2-3 weeks.

Recipe from Lecker.de