Last Friday saw the official launch at the International Travel Show TT Warsaw of three new tourist heritage trails across Poland’s Mazovian Province. The trails, which are accompanied by expertly-written guides available in four languages, a mobile app and dedicated website, are the latest in a line of initiatives of the Mazovian Regional Tourism Organisation, […]
I suspect many of you will have heard by now of Wojtek the bear soldier, an orphaned bear who was adopted in 1942 in the mountains of Iran by soldiers from the Polish II Corps of Anders’ exiled Polish army. The story of Wojtek the Bear is as fascinating as it is incredible and moving, […]
Today I came across a Polish website that had obviously been translated into English by what are referred to in the industry as statistical machine translation engines. The English section had a subsection called “The Ladies Work”. It took while to figure out that this wasn’t a breach of the Sex Discrimination at Work Act. […]
Earlier today I had the pleasure of addressing three classes of primary school children at my boys’ local school. Kilted (day wear) and complete with powerpoint presentation and projector my job was to deliver, in English, a lively and entertaining talk about Scotland to Polish children between the ages of 9 and 11. The classroom, […]
Copies of the Chopin Route made available to attendees of the Chopin Competition Prior to the official launch of the Chopin Route guide book, those lucky enough to have a ticket for the 2015 Warsaw Chopin Competition finals received a copy this week. The guide, one of three routes which Lacrosse translated under an […]
A visit to the Polish Tour Salon tourist fairs in Poznan last week brought home the message that Poland is finally competing at the highest level for tourists from the domestic market and for incoming tourists, by producing sophisticated, well-researched and well-written material. A senior industry specialist we spoke to demonstrated she understood that translation […]
Lacrosse is delighted to announce that it has become a member of Elia, the European Language Industry Association, an organization committed to promoting ethics and quality standards throughout the translation and localization industry. Elia encourages those entering the industry by organising the Elia Exchange with participating universities. The programme gives students opportunities to improve their […]
The British-Polish Chamber’s magazine “Contact” carried an article about the very successful Export Forum that Southern Poland office chief Urszula Kwaniewska organised with the Marshal of Silesia’s office in Katowice with COIE. Lacrosse got a good write-up for the presentation we did there. As the author of the “Contact” piece writes, we pointed out some great examples of […]
Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium has hosted the greats of football like Cristiano Ronaldo, Bobby Charlton and George Best. Last week the stars of the translation world took to the field at the conference centre there which hosted the Language Industry Summit of the UK Association of Translation Companies I attended last week. This year […]
We are trying hard to keep up with the sightings of the new information boards for tourists appearing throughout the Mazovia region. This one in Czersk, near Gora Kalwaria was seen on Saturday at the Mediaeval festival, which took place at in the grounds of the castle. The Dukes chose Czersk in the 15th century […]