Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie – 150 lat! | Polish Interpreting

Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie – 150 lat! Posted on 17. May, 2012 by Kasia in Arts, Calendar, Culture, Current News, History The National Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie) starts celebrating its 150th anniversary this May. The anniversary celebrations begin May 17-20 with the reopening of refurbished interiors, a new exhibition (nowa wystawa), concerts (koncerty), movie screenings...

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What is on the menu? | Polish Interpreting Services and Interpreters

What is on the menu? Posted on 16. May, 2012 by Kasia in cooking, Countries, Culture, food, Health, Languages, Phrases Dining out in Poland can be a great experience. All the wonderful, tasty food, so different than food in US… Looking at the menu in different Polish restaurants may be a little confusing sometimes. Sometimes, even with the english menu, you may be surprised what you actually...

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Dee Snider on Broadway Album: 'Career

Dee Snider recently unveiled the first video from “Dee Does Broadway,” his album of show tunes, which Razor Tie released on May 8. The video is for “Mack the Knife,” the English language translation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “Moritat” from “The Threepenny Opera,” and it fits perfectly with Snider’s vision in creating the album.   “When I had...

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Ethnic precincts using own language signs | Polish Interpreting

  Ethnic precincts are being created in our cities with immigrant business people using signs in their own language to peddle their wares. A Massey researcher has studied 500 linguistic landscape photos taken at five Auckland locations and says they could cause annoyance and repugnance from English speaking Kiwis. The locations include Northcote, Dominion Road, Meadowlands Shopping Centre in...

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DARPA Awards BOLT Program $7.1 million

06:48 GMT, May 15, 2012 MENLO PARK, Calif. | SRI International has been awarded a $7.1 million contract for Phase 1 of a five-year, $41.5 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract under DARPA’s Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program. BOLT is an international research initiative to develop breakthrough language technologies. “Machine translation...

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Joke? Police? Safety? | Polish Interpreting Services and Interpreters

Joke? Police? Safety? Posted on 14. May, 2012 by Kasia in Culture, Current News, Regulations, Safety I was reading Polish news and came across this really strange thing… Residents of Zachodnio-Pomorskie were left rubbing their eyes in amazement this week when they were confronted with the peculiar sight of a car perched on top of a large tree. The bizarre event occurred in the north western...

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