by Avantpage | Jun 20, 2016 | Elections Translation, Language Spotlight
This election season many campaigns for politicians and ballot measures are looking at Asian Americans as a key voter group. The number of Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters almost doubled from 2 million in 2000 to 3.9 million in 2012. What’s more, almost half...
by Avantpage | Nov 23, 2015 | Language Industry, Language Spotlight
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) was launched in 2011 to provide an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. The US is a founding member and today the OGP has 69...
by Avantpage | May 21, 2015 | Company News, Healthcare News, Language Spotlight
For Hmong refugees arriving in the United States forty years ago, life was confusing, stressful and complex. As political refugees from Laos, many Hmong established communities in California. The Hmongstory 40 project was created to trace the immigration experience of...
by Avantpage | May 8, 2015 | Company News, Healthcare News, Language Spotlight
In 2008 native Cambodian Avantpage linguist Channdara Sos was proud to be City University of Seattle’s Distinguished Student Speaker for Commencement. Channdara “Dara” Sos is one of Avantpage’s many dedicated translators, and we caught up with him in between...
by Avantpage | Apr 22, 2015 | Language Spotlight
Chinese translation and localization projects are among the most common requests our clients make, and with good reason. More than 1.2 billion people worldwide speak Chinese and it’s one of the fastest growing consumer markets in the world. Chinese is the second most...
by Avantpage | Mar 6, 2015 | Language Spotlight
The preservation of endangered languages is a mission critical task for linguistic and translation professionals around the world. Beyond the historical implications of protecting indigenous languages, it’s important to safeguard the native tongue of global cultures...
