Top language, translation, marketing and networking tweets: April 2014

Hi everybody! How've you been? It's high time I shared some interesting, useful and fun tweets with you about translation, languages, marketing and networking. All these tweets were published in April and according to Topsy.com they got the most shares, retweets and replies. I had a great time while looking through those links, reading the articles that I missed because it's simply impossible to see everything on Twitter! I hope these links will be as useful for you as they were for me. As usual, you can see the names and Twitter usernames of all people who shared them, as well as hashtags they used. So you can follow these great twitterers and/or type the same hashtag in Twitter and look for more cool tweets on the same topics!

Language tweets:

Alyssa Milano @alyssa_milano
These 9 Words Don't Mean What You Think They Mean. j.mp/OLPFpm #language /via @matthiasrascher

Medical Xpress @medical_xpress
Touch influences how infants learn #language medx.cc/317454918 @LifeAtPurdue

Oxford Dictionaries @oxfordwords
Can a word really be untranslatable? oxford.ly/1hlgE84 #translation #language

hyperlingo @hyperlingo
Learning A #Language Is For Life, Not Just For Business hypl.in/1jV2lpw

Max Planck Society @maxplanckpress
RT@nytimes The #language is, like, totally not degrading nyti.ms/1kiPAbA

Rosetta Stone @rosettastone
What is a foreign #language worth? About $67,000 by the time you retire! econ.st/1jLRm2r via @TheEconomist

hyperlingo @hyperlingo
Moral Judgment Influenced by What #Language You Speak hypl.in/1kaqQOb

Rosetta Stone @rosettastone
Will #French be the world’s most-spoken #language by 2050? f24.my/1jaiYxJ

Matador @matadornetwork
Traveling to #Italy soon? 10 extraordinarily useful Italian phrases: bit.ly/1euOlzy #language #travelstoke pic.twitter.com/DHUhWokNz1

Language Svc Corps @nlsc
When Not to Speak Your Second Language to Your Children parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/whe… #language

GuardianTeach @guardianteach
"Learning a #language in primary is great, but teachers need proper training first" gu.com/p/3z55f/tw via @guardian #mfl

Maital Rozenboim @memer
Multilingual people have multiple personalities, according to Noam Scheiber #language Interesting article: goo.gl/uISvoh

Max Planck Society @maxplanckpress
The best way to learn a foreign #language? Don't focus on the language! onforb.es/1nsldzT via @forbes h/t @DAADnewyork

Translation tweets:

Catherine Christaki @linguagreca
Cheat sheet: Twitter hashtags for translators ow.ly/vUTey by @LingoIO #xl8

Jayne Fox @jaynefox
"A good film poorly translated becomes a mediocre film. Don’t allow our films to be translated on the cheap." hollywoodreporter.com/news/roman-pol… #xl8

Emma Goldsmith @goldsmithtrans
Just discovered a new #xl8 blog: Tina and Mouse. A Minimalist Comic on Translation. Great fun! ow.ly/w6MBq

Judy Jenner @language_news
#xl8 business insight of the day: Don't just tell clients: "No, I'm not available." Offer solutions. Refer a colleague. Go the extra mile.

Emma Goldsmith @goldsmithtrans
A look at the New Features in #Studio2014 SP1: the good and the bad ow.ly/wjGVM #xl8

Catherine Christaki @linguagreca
12 time (and therefore money)-saving tips for home-based freelance translators ow.ly/vtL49 by @Claire_Cox16 #xl8

SDL Trados @sdltrados
MyMemory for Studio 2014 is now on the OpenExchange! Access the world’s largest translation memory for free! ow.ly/vANl4 #xl8

Catherine Christaki @linguagreca
Freebies for Freelance Translation Professionals ow.ly/vQI9T by @NYAcomm >Great e-books #xl8

Alessandra Vita @avinterpreter
What are the main differences between translators and interpreters? via @Scheherezade_SL #xl8 #1nt pic.twitter.com/gWzvLRacvT

Jayne Fox @jaynefox
Here's my new blog post on CPD – all about webinars for translators. foxdocs.biz/BetweenTransla… #xl8 #xl8cpd pic.twitter.com/bCrlqA2NuB

John Evans @evansjohn75
A day in the life of an English translator at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation ow.ly/weKmW #xl8

Nikki Graham @nikki_graham
Useful Links tranix-translations.blogspot.com/p/useful-links… over 80 links which might be especially interesting to ES-EN translators & vice versa #xl8 #t9n

Oxford Dictionaries @oxfordwords
Can a word really be untranslatable? oxford.ly/1hlgE84 #translation #language

Localization News @l10ntweets
Does U.S. Spanish Exist? bit.ly/1jRAerh #translation

Susan Buchanan @susan_buchanan
How hard is it to translate a piece of work? My article on Janet Emson's blog bit.ly/NNwDhV #translation #authors

Rina Ne'eman @rinaneeman
Fun for translators - Why Germans Don't Play Scrabble. This one is for @Jeromobot. #translation #xl8 pic.twitter.com/I2QxTbCQBt

Marketing and networking tweets:

Guy Kawasaki @guykawasaki
Online #marketing tips that won't break the bank ow.ly/vOy1w #marketingtips

Jeff Bullas @jeffbullas
7 Ways To Get More Engagement Out of Your Photos on Facebook bit.ly/13jCQ8a #socialmedia #smm #marketing

Jeff Bullas @jeffbullas
6 Ways to Expand Your Social Media Reach ow.ly/jmke7 #socialmedia #marketing

Jeff Bullas @jeffbullas
10 Top Google Plus Tools for Digital Marketers ow.ly/oBCOl #googleplus #marketing #socialmedia

Jeff Bullas @jeffbullas
15 Steps for Creating a Successful #SocialMedia Giveaway Contest ow.ly/g39rU #Marketing #SMM

Marsha Collier @marshacollier
The ideal length of a #Facebook post is less than 40 characters bit.ly/QBNDK6 #marketing pic.twitter.com/caBwraNphd

Reg Saddler @zaibatsu
6 Online #Marketing Metrics You Need to Know ow.ly/3jJpQu pic.twitter.com/5kavUzuR2J

Bored Panda @boredpanda
30 Of The Most Creative Business Cards Ever (48 pics): boredpanda.com/creative-busin… #networking #business #design pic.twitter.com/omSqJKEIMZ

Harvey Mackay @harveymackay
You don't have to know everything as long as you know the people who do. #business #networking

Max Martinez @maxmartinez
#Networking isn't about the amount of ppl you know, but instead how well you know them. You don't build a #startup out of business cards

Inc. @inc
Is in-person #networking becoming a lost art? bit.ly/1jwQFcv @weisul

As for the highlights of this month, don't forget to check out the #bp14conf hashtag for lots of cool tweets from the Freelance Translators Conference in Budapest that took place just a few days ago! I loved the translators' Oscars selfie :-) More about the conference and its tweets in my next Top Tweets post!

Olga Arakelyan

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