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EURO 2012: STAR Translation publishes football phrases in 14 languages for supporters on the road to Poland.
Co. Dublin, Ireland — April 2012 — STAR Translation Services today published its Euro 2012 Phrase Booklet and Wallchart for supporters. Learn how to scream “Handball” in Polish before going to the football match.

News Release
For Immediate Release
Friday – May 2012

To support the Irish football team in EURO2012 STAR created its EURO 2012 Phrase Booklet to help you say “Handball” and “He Dived” in 14 languages. This is the chance for our supporters to speak some Polish, Ukrainian or even Dutch football phrases. STAR has translated the most useful football phrases from English to the 14 spoken languages of the countries taking part in the EURO 2012.

STAR Translation Services also designed its EURO 2012 wallchart so you can track your team’s progress.

You will find more free football translations on the STAR-TS website. The languages included are: Czech , Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.

Come on Ireland !
• Download the phrase booklet and wallchart from www.star-ts.com/free-football-translation

About STAR:
Based in Dublin, STAR TS provides translation services in over 40 global languages. It translates documents and websites to enable clients to do more international business every day. With more than 800 people worldwide in the STAR Group, we give you confidence in a translated world. http://www.star-ts.com
Damian Scattergood and Paul Quigley founded STAR-TS in 2001. The entrepreneurs have successfully grown the company to one of the leading translation companies in Ireland.

Further information:
Damian Scattergood
Managing Director: STAR Dublin
Email: dsm@star-ts.com
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614

STAR Technology Solutions
Docklands Innovation Park, 128-130 East Wall Road, Dublin 3, Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)1 8365614
Fax: +353 (0)1 8364644
Web: www.star-ts.com

Probably one of the biggest dilemmas for marketing managers today is whether they are seen to be spamming their clients or not. Marketeers have to communicate with current and prospective clients and do so on a daily basis. So how do you know if your emails are being caught as spam or are being received favorably by your clients.

A good place to start your education and testing is with the Swiftpage email delivery system. We use the system ourselves and we find it very useful.

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Online ‘deliverability’ education:
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By STAR Translation Services

Building Brics

Our newsletter this month focuses on our core business of translation.

During Seachtain na Gaeilge we promoted our Irish translation services on social media like YouTube and Facebook. Meanwhile we are also focusing on expanding markets in the BRIC countries. STAR already has a BRIC presence supporting Brazil, Russia, India and China so we can share our knowledge on these expanding countries.  Finally we’ve been recognised for our quality and hard work by being nominated for 2 separate awards.

BRIC : Brazil, Russia, India and China are the hot topic of discussion in translation and export markets right now. According to the Goldman Sachs’ report, China and India will become the dominant global supplier for manufactured goods and services. Meanwhile, Brazil and Russia will become the dominant players for raw materials and energy.

STAR helps clients who do business in BRIC countries by providing translation services for Documents, Websites and Manuals. If you’re doing business in any BRIC country – STAR can assist you with your language requirements.

Want More BRIC?

What are the best languages to translate into? As a translation company we provide translation in over 45 languages including Irish from our offices here in Dublin 3. We analyzed all our translation for 2011 and are happy to publish the results for our global readers. The top 3 are:

1. German

2. French

3. Irish

As you might imagine our closest international neighbors are top with German and French being the most popular languages we translated last year. Irish was the 3rd most popular language being our native language.

For more results visit out top 10 languages page.

STAR spoke Irish for Language Week – with the launch of our “Irish Word of The Day” Videos . The short video series taught people how to speak a number of Irish words and sentences. You can watch the videos here on http://www.youtube.com/startranslation

What is the correct abbreviation for Doctor?

This week we are having a big debate about this one and we’re still not decided who won. There are multiple camps in this space.
Share your point of view with us – Which abbreviation do you use and why?

Follow the Dr. discussion here:

Budget 2012s finer details were released recently in the Finance Bill 2012 which contains a significant number of items that favour Foreign Direct Investments into Ireland such as:

• Research & Development (R&D) relief
• Foreign Earnings Deduction (FED)
• Special Assignee Relief Programme (SARP)
• 0% corporation tax rate for new companies.

For further information, see Finance Bill 2012

We’re delighted to tell you we’ve been nominated for 2 separate awards for our service and social media work.

Bord Gáis Social Media Awards 2012
Our Social media work has been recognized by the fact that we are nominated in 4 separate categories. You can see all the nominations here: socialmediaawards.com

Entrepreneurial Business Awards (EBA) 2012:
For our customer services and entrepreneurial drive building our business over the last few years STAR has been shortlisted for the Dublin Entrepreneurial Business Awards!

It is fantastic to have our hard work recognized by the market and our customers so thank you all for your continued support and business.

This month our newsletter focuses on services that can help you grow an international business. As a translation provider we are often asked for advice on a number of different areas from how to establish an overseas office to sourcing products in China.  Whilst our core focus is translation services we work with a variety of companies in many sectors.

This month we highlight two of them for you.

Doing global business…

STAR ISO 9001:2008 Certified

We are delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded with the prestigious ISO 9001:2008 Certification.

With close to 10 years experience providing professional translation services the ISO standard is a further stamp of approval on the quality services we provide.

More Online >

Dyslexic Friendly Spelling Game

We recently announced our sponsorship of “Spelling Rules” a free online game to help dyslexic children improve their spelling.

Developed by Claire McNelis a Digital Media graduate in Galway, “Spelling Rules” was created as an online game that would teach spelling rules in a way that was simple and accessible for dyslexic people without being too academic.

Play Online

New Web Translation Portal

February saw the release of our new translation portal. The new portal allows clients to access up to date status updates on their projects so they know where each language is.

Have you tried it yet? We plan to expand the site in the coming months so try it out and please feel free to drop us a line with feedback and ideas you may have to make your life easier.

Translation Portal

For The Engineers…

Here is a great site from Bryan at Paperfoldabales. Obviously an amazing talent at paper design and engineering. Whether you are 5 or 55 we think the engineer in you will enjoy this site:

http://www.paperfoldables.com/

Big Files For Translation?

Did you know we have a secure server that you can upload enormous files to? Working with large files can be a challenge so you can upload anything up to a 2 gigabyte file directly on our website now.

Upload your files for quotation here:

http://www.star-ts.com/upload-file-translate.shtml