May 4, 2023Blog Post Marketing in Japanese vs. American TV Commercials What makes something resonate with a target audience? It all starts with understanding the culture of that target audience. When […]
April 25, 2023April 25, 2023Blog Post Don’t Display Your Japanese Text Wrong Take a look at the Japanese text in the picture – does anything look wrong?
April 7, 2023May 4, 2023Blog Post What’s Up With Japanese TV? All TV, regardless of country or genre, has one main goal: Draw in viewers. Sounds pretty basic, right? However…
March 10, 2023March 10, 2023Blog Post Wordplay Transcreations in Japanese Wordplay is all around us – it can create a humorous moment in a movie or TV show (i.e. Shrek […]
February 13, 2023February 13, 2023Blog Post A New Way of Reading Something cool I’ve been experimenting with lately: changing how I read to improve how well knowledge “sticks” with me. Even […]
January 30, 2023January 30, 2023Blog Post What Goes Into Digitalizing a Language? Most of us take it for granted that the languages we use are digitalized enough that we can easily use […]
December 14, 2022December 16, 2022Project Making Scrabble Multilingual in C# with GitHub Collaboration Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to play Scrabble in another language? Together with my teammates – Min […]
December 13, 2022March 17, 2024Project The Importance of Process: Getting ROAR Magazine Off the Ground From 2022-2023, I managed ROAR Magazine, an online magazine produced by the Translation and Localization Management program at MIIS. Although […]
November 21, 2022Blog Post Perfectionism and Decision-Making At the beginning of 2022, I made a commitment to work on leadership, and one of the skills I wanted […]
November 5, 2022November 5, 2022Blog Post Daylight Savings 2022 Ends Q: When is the latest sunrise of the year? A: If we’re going by what our clocks say, it’s TODAY, […]