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🎉 New Year, New Beginnings! 🎉 As we step into another year full of possibilities, it's the perfect time to reflect on our past achievements and set exciting goals for the future. What are you most looking forward to in 2025? Share your resolutions or dreams with us in the comments! #NewYearNewYou #2025Goals #Inspiration

We hope your day was filled with the joy and warmth of the season! 🌟🎄 May the spirit of Christmas bring you and your loved ones closer, celebrating love, connection, and holiday cheer across all languages and cultures. #ICLS #ChristmasDay #HappyHolidays

Christmas came early this year!😎🎁 A little over a year and a half ago, while trying to finish up graduate school and staring down another PCS to begin IRT, I was sitting flat at a L2/R2/S1+😩 - already a slight dip from the year prior when I first left DLI. However, thanks to a ton of support I wrapped up this year with a modest L3/R2+/S2+. A testament to balancing hours of self-study while pushing myself to make the most out of IRT. (✅2024 New Year Resolution) Here's to consolidating these gains💪 in 2025! International Center for Language Studies | Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center #LanguageLearning #French #ICLS #DLI #DLPT #OPI #ForeignLanguageTraining

Just in time for the holidays! We got the chance to take our ESL students to the holiday market in DuPont Circle, then, we went to KRAMERBOOKS AND AFTERWORDS, INC. to purchase coffee and books! 🎄

Every word you learn brings you closer to your goals. Keep showing up, keep learning, and soon you’ll unlock a whole new world of possibilities. #LearnWithICLS #LanguageLearning #Motivation

A day well spent in the heart of D.C.! Our teacher Allison and our ESL students had an amazing time exploring the festive @dcholidaymarket, soaking up the holiday cheer and discovering unique treasures. 🎄✨The adventure continued at Kramers, a one-of-a-kind bookstore beautifully blended with a cozy restaurant and coffee shop—perfect for unwinding and connecting. What a memorable way to embrace the season and experience the charm of D.C.! #ICLSDC #VacationEnglish #ESL

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I have been blessed in recent days with the opportunity to speak on three amazing podcasts. Last Wednesday I spoke with Robin Ayoub, Vice President of Lionbridge Canada, and former President of Canadian Language Industry Association | Association canadienne de l’industrie de la langue. Robin hosts the Localization Fireside Chat podcast covering a very wide range of topics in the #translation, #interpreting and #localization ecosystem. Robin is also an old friend who I also recently bumped into in Riyadh at the International Translation Forum (https://lnkd.in/dQQef5pF), hosted by Dr. Hailah Alkhalaf, PhD, FHEA's team at the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia (KSA). We had actually done the interview there in the board room of the وزارة الثقافة Ministry of Culture, but we had to re-do it due to some sound issues. We mused over the wonderful hospitality of the Saudis (you have to try camel) and their strong push to invest in #language studies for both men and women. Everyone seemed to have a doctorate in KSA and I was called "doctor" repeatedly, which made me squirm but they were all very much convinced that I somehow deserved that title... I then had the pleasure of talking with Florian Faes, of Slator. We discussed my crazy business travel schedule this year, having attended: - the Association of Language Companies UnConference in Cancun (February), - VAMOS JUNTOS in Lima, Peru (March) [best event of the year by far!] - SlatorCon in London (May), - my wild and surreal bus ride to Kyiv (June), - Asociación Argentina de Servicios Lingüísticos (AASL) Annual Retreat, held in Mendoza (August), - Association of Language Companies Annual Summit in Montreal and SlatorCon in Menlo Park (September), - GlobalSaké —for growth’s sake in San Francisco followed quickly by LocWorld in Monterey (October), - the International Translation Forum in Riyadh (November), - the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) Road Show in Cordoba (last Friday). We also touched on my upcoming trip to Tanzania and Ethiopia where I will be speaking at the 5th Africa International Translation Conference (https://lnkd.in/diHVJVmr) in Zanzibar, on February 7-8, 2025. Wow! Finally yesterday Mark Shriner, of Breeze Docs and memoQ, hosted Renato Beninatto, of Nimdzi Insights, Karen Decker, President of Association of Language Companies and International Center for Language Studies, and Andrzej Nedoma, former owner of XTRF™ Translation Business Management and lidolang a SeproTec company, and myself to talk about VAMOS JUNTOS, the 3rd Annual Summit of Juntos - Association of Language Services of Latin America and the Caribbean to be held in Mexico City on March 14-15, 2025. What a year! Woo hoo!