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Today Translations is a translations service provider, founded by Jurga Zilinskiene in 2001, based in the City of London.〔(Financial Times - Suppliers to the Square Mile, 22 March 2011 )〕 The company has a global reach, with over 2,600 staff, providing and interpreting and translating in more than 160 languages.〔(CityAM - Investment Bank Wannabe Lays His Soul Bar at Goldman Altar, 21 January 2010 )〕 The firm was funded with £13,000 of Zilinskiene’s own savings and continues to operate without external funding.〔(NicheGeek - How to Start a Six Figure Online Translation Business, 17 September 2006 )〕〔(Arabic eBook, 2008 )〕〔(The Independent - Business Essentials, 6 June 2004 )〕〔(Growing Business, 1 June 2004 )〕〔(Telegraph - Starting Out, 26 June 2007 )〕 The firm uses database software Zilinskiene designed and evolved from the start of the business.〔〔〔 The company was noted in the media for polls to find out the ‘world’s most untranslatable word’〔(BBC News - Congo word 'most untranslatable' )〕 and another to identify ‘the world’s most romantic word’.〔(Reuters - Is this the worlds most romantic word? 12 February 2010 )〕 It has also attracted press attention for other stunts, including the hiring of regional Geordie〔(The Guardian - Language firm advertises for 'Geordie translators', 12 October 2010 )〕 Glaswegian,〔(The Times - Is Glswegian lost in translation? 18 October 2009 )〕 Scouse〔(Liverpool Echo - Wanted: Scouse translators for Liverpool's foreign visitors, 9 October 2010 )〕 and Glaswegian translators. The recruitment of regional interpreters was seen as controversial in some media, but Zilinskiene disagreed, saying, "People in Newcastle and Liverpool shouldn’t be offended by this. The accent gives them a strong regional identity and they should be proud of it".〔(Daily Mail - Interpreters hired to translate Geordie and Scouse accents for foreigners, 8 October 2010 )〕 They have also advertised for speakers of Brooklynese. The company maintains that its regional recruitment campaign was motivated by a genuine need to enable foreign business people to do business more easily in the regions. According to Zilinskiene, "We are aware that some of our foreign and UK clients can find the Glaswegian accent difficult to decipher. While it's unusual for us to want someone to translate a dialect of English, there is a clear demand".〔(Daily Record - London firm launches hunt - for Glaswegian translators, 14 October 2010 )〕 ==Awards== *Shell LiveWire Award for Young Entrepreneurs in 2003.〔(PNE Group - If Only I Knew )〕 *Duke of Edinburgh Award for International Trade in 2006.〔(British Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania - BCC Paper, Winter 2006 edition )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Today Translations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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