CETRA Language Solutions passed an annual audit of its ISO 9001:2015 international quality management standard certification earlier this month. The audit was performed by the Performance Review Institute. CETRA is one of the few language service providers in the United States to hold this prestigious certification. CETRA updated its certification from ISO 9001:2008 to the […]
CETRA Ireland Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of CETRA, Inc, is celebrating its seventh anniversary this month. CETRA Ireland, which is located in Limerick, leads the company’s website globalization and software localization services. CETRA Ireland also expanded CETRA’s ICT and market research client base in the EMEA market. Founded in 2012, CETRA Ireland staff includes […]
As we continue to recognize the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019), we have been talking about endangered languages and how it is possible to save an endangered language. According to UNESCO, there are 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, and 2,680 languages spoken by indigenous people that are in danger. In addition, UNESCO notes there […]
Imagine an automobile company putting a new car to market without road testing it first. That is the equivalent of market researchers putting a multilingual survey out in the field without it having gone through an online review. Both the road test and online review work out the bugs, and ensure that the product or […]
We are often contacted by legal clients who need interpretation services for a court case or other legal proceeding. In some cases, it is the first time that a paralegal or legal assistant is requesting interpretation. Part of our role is to serve as cultural consultants and advise clients on the best approach when language […]
We are pleased to welcome Sally Yoon to CETRA. Sally is a translation project manager in our Seoul, South Korea office. Sally brings to CETRA experience as a localization project manager and linguist, and has provided translation, editing and management services for global clients. Sally has been interested in language since high school, and earned […]
Our CEO, Jiri Stejskal, recently traveled across several countries in Asia visiting clients, and he came across many examples of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) translations gone awry. From airports to restaurants to resorts, the mistranslations ranged from comical to nonsensical. They included chiefs making dinner recommendations and calls to not take out a hand from a handrail. […]
CETRA’s President & CEO, Jiri Stejskal, will be a speaker at the TAUS Global Content Summit in New York City on March 21, 2019. Jiri is an invited speaker for the program’s “Quantum Leap Conversation,” during which speakers will discuss if human parity in machine translation (MT) is good enough, and lead a deeper dive […]
We started off our year-long series on indigenous languages by focusing on languages that are endangered of becoming extinct. The blog series is in recognition of the United Nations naming 2019 as The International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL2019). This month we take a closer look at how a language can be “saved.” Language Documentation […]
We are pleased to welcome Luize Smite to CETRA. Luize is a translation project manager in our Limerick, Ireland office. Luize speaks five languages, and earned her BA in Applied Languages in Japanese, Spanish and German at the University of Limerick. Her Bachelor’s thesis examined the cognitive effects of bilingualism. Luize was previously a project […]
