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Shifting Trends: Shopping & Spending Online

For a number of years, consumer spending has been shifting from traditional bricks-and-mortar stores to online retailing sites. In the UK, Europe’s leading e-retailing economy, online spending was £58.8bn* compared to total retail sales of £293bn** last year. Online spending is set to grow its share by increasing 15% year-on-year compared to just 0.7% sales [...]

Language Connect’s Office Design: Style in Scripts

We recently decorated Language Connect’s head office in Bermondsey Street with a creative design that reflects the company’s focus on languages. Our brief was to create a unique, inspiring and colourful design based on different writing scripts. We put community involvement at the heart of the design process by advertising within local art colleges to [...]

Developing a multilingual blog

During the early years of the internet, English used to be the predominant language on the web. Native English speakers accounted for the majority of the online population, but with the global spread of internet usage, they now only account for 26.5% users on the web. As most bloggers are focused upon English, they could potentially be missing out on [...]

China’s rising dragon: E-commerce

With the world’s largest manufacturing base and a burgeoning middle class, China’s rise to the top in e-commerce is inevitable. U.S. dominance of the e-commerce market is close to being dislodged by China whose online shoppers (currently 145 million) are increasing in number at an astonishing rate. It is expected that Chinese online consumers will [...]

Top Tips on Learning Foreign Languages

A lot of people who already speak two languages seem to believe that they won’t be able to learn anymore after that. However, this isn’t true. In fact, the truth is: if you already speak two of them fluently to begin with, you will have a much easier time learning languages. Naturally, if you want [...]

Strategies to Capture the Foreign Market

The advantage of being in business for yourself is that you get to set the limit as to how far you can go. Most huge multinational companies have started small. They first conquered the local market before moving on to the international arena. Are you thinking of taking your company global? Bear in mind that [...]

Portable Translation: Reviewing Translation Apps

Like many other smartphone utilities, a good number of translation apps have been introduced in recent times offering different levels of translation and interpretation functionality. Well-known technology companies like Google have created their own translation apps which have received positive press and recommendations from popular publications. Their use for quick translations on the go comes [...]

The Global Connect: Open for Guest Blogging Opportunities

Great content is the cornerstone of successful websites, and we understand the importance of providing insightful content to our readers. In order to provide quality content regularly, we now accept guest blog posts on our blog The Global Connect. We welcome posts on topics from languages to localization and multilingual online marketing. Guest posts could [...]

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