The Language Shop Ltd

As the year draws to a close, we wish all our clients, Freelancers, and Suppliers a Very Merry Christmas 🎅

Did you know that The Language Shop provides qualifications and training for linguists? tls.learn is a service for interpreters to improve their interpreting skills. It offers information, support, industry-leading qualifications, and training to those who want to start, progress and develop a career as a public service interpreter. Learn more on our website: https://lnkd.in/gTBPMdZX #Linguisttraining #interpretertraining

The Language Shop provides interpreting, translation and technology solutions to the public sector, charities and businesses. Our interpreters work in over 250 languages and are all highly qualified and experienced. We offer not only face to face interpreting, but also video and telephone interpreting, which can be provided as a scheduled or on-demand service. To find out more about our services visit our website: https://lnkd.in/grRytKWy #Translation #Interpreting

In our newsletter we include a 'language fact file' - facts about a different language each month, we also give you some basic phrases to try and learn. This month we give you facts about Turkish. To sign up to our newsletter simply click the link below: https://lnkd.in/gyYpPiJw Language fact file: Turkish is an official language in: Turkey and Cyprus. Number of native speakers: approximately 75 to 80 million. Learn some: Thank people in Turkish by saying Teşekkürler – pronounced ‘te-sheh-ku-ler’. Fast facts: Turkish is officially part of a language group, which includes Azerbaijani and Kazakh. Some linguists believe that it is part of an even bigger central Asian language group and even has links with Japanese. Learners of Japanese and Turkish have noted many similarities between the two languages, mostly in terms of their structures. In Turkish, many jokes revolve around two characters: Temel and his best friend Dursun. There are hundreds of jokes featuring these two characters, and sometimes Temel’s wife, Fatma. The characters are from the Black Sea coastal area, where the people are said to be funny and witty. Avid readers of the Monthly View may remember that there is a whistled form of Turkish in the hilly province of Giresun, some villagers developed this system to communicate quickly over long distances and tricky terrain. It is 400 years old and still used by approximately 10,000 people, according to the Turkish government. #Turkish #LanguageFacts

Every month in our newsletter, we get to know a bit more about one of our linguists. This month, meet Kutal Mete Tekin, an interpreter working in Turkish. To sign up to our newsletter simply click the link below: https://lnkd.in/gyYpPiJw The Linguist’s Story Tell us about the work you do for TLS. I work as an interpreter for TLS. My preferred way of explaining that is being the bridge between different cultures. Nowadays anyone can use a translate app and roughly communicate with anyone, but those apps only do a basic job and cannot translate the nuances in the language. Because most of the time a language is not as straightforward as a mathematical formula, so what someone wants to say may not be clear to a computer programme. What's been your favourite project at TLS? I don't think I have a single favourite project but I can say that I enjoy the medical calls far more. In medicine every patient is different and that means every consultation we do is different. It keeps you on your toes. What has been your biggest challenge? The biggest challenge is unfortunately something that happens quite often. When someone is in need of help desperately, whether that being about housing, medical or personal security, as an interpreter it is hard not to connect with them emotionally. I know that the professional we are connecting them with will help through whatever problem they have but the challenge is when I hang up and start another call with another client, I have to let those feelings go as well. It is possible, and you certainly get used to it, but sometimes at the end of the day I think back to that call and whether that person has received the help they needed or not.    Can you tell us about a time your work has made a difference to someone’s life? One time I was interpreting for a medical call and I noticed that the patient's family member, who had acted as an interpreter for them on their previous appointment, had misinterpreted something. They thought the patient was supposed to get chemotherapy and they worried for a month until their follow up appointment that they had cancer. Turns out what the healthcare professional said was cryotherapy, which is a much simpler procedure. I will always remember the happiness in the patient's voice when they realised there was a mistranslation, and they actually don't have cancer. I think this story also proves the importance of using professional interpreters instead of friends and family because as much as that family member wanted to help them, they ended up giving them a month long of anxiety due to misinterpreting. Tell us something interesting about you. I'm also a part-time motorsport photographer. I attend events around the world and take pictures of cars on the racetrack.

The overall objective of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilise efforts in support of mental health. The day provides an opportunity for all people working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide. Find out more at the World Health Organisation: https://lnkd.in/e42DJyh #WMHD #MentalHealth #MentalHealthDay

'Shanah tovah' to those who are celebrating Rosh Hashanah! Rosh Hashanah means 'head of the year' and is a special festival that celebrates Jewish New Year. The festival dates vary from year to year. In 2024, it begins on Wednesday 2 October and ends on Friday 4 October. The dates of Jewish festivals come from the Hebrew Calendar, so the Jewish New Year begins in autumn, as opposed to on 1 January. #Shanahtovah #RoshHashanah

Ensuring that everyone can access NHS services is vital. Our Language Services framework provides a way of supporting delivery to service users who speak, communicate in, or read languages other than English. For more information visit our Language Services framework page: https://lnkd.in/eppm9QUE

Each month in our newsletter we give you a list of upcoming cultural, religious, and awareness dates for your diary. To sign up to our newsletter simply click the link below: https://lnkd.in/gyYpPiJw October’s dates at a glance Religious/Cultural  2 –   Feast of the Guardian Angels, Catholic Christian  3 –   Sharada Navaratri begins, Hindu  3-4    Rosh Hashanah, Judaism  4 –   Feast of St Francis of Assisi, Christian  6 –   Fast of Gedaliah, Judaism  9 –   Birthday of Guru Ram Das, Sikh  12 –  Yom Kippur, Judaism  12 –  Dussehra, Hindu  17-23 Sukkot, Judaism  18 –  Feast of Saint Luke, Christian  20 –  Birthday of the Guru Granth, Sikh  24 –  Shemini Atzeret, Judaism  25 –  Simchat Torah, Judaism  28 –  Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Christian  31 –  All Hallows’ Eve, Christian  31 –   Reformation Day, Protestant Christian    Awareness and Events  1 –   Anniversary of the Introduction of the Equality Act  1 –   International Day of Older Persons  5 –   World Teachers’ Day  6 –   World Cerebral Palsy Day  10 –  World Mental Health Day  10 –  World Sight Day  11 –  International Day of the Girl Child  11 –  National Coming Out Day  15 –  International Day of Rural Women  16 –  International Pronouns Day  17 –  International Day for the Eradication of Poverty  18 –  Anti-Slavery Day  18 –  World Menopause Day  18 –  Show Racism the Red Card’s Wear Red Day  26 –  Intersex Awareness Day  29 –  World Stroke Day

International Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security. The Language Shop provides interpreting, translation and technology solutions to the public sector, charities and businesses. Our qualified interpreters have over 250 languages between them and our rigorous recruitment procedure guarantees you always receive qualified and experienced linguists for every booking. Find out more about our services at: https://lnkd.in/grRytKWy