Avec la diversité du monde aujourd’hui, la nouvelle année se célèbre de manière différente d’un pays à un autre. Bien qu’en France, il soit convenu de sabrer le champagne avant de le servir et d’envoyer des cartes de vœux pour souhaiter bonheur et santé, nos voisins à travers le monde ont des coutumes bien différentes.

On the other side of the world our friends in the Philippins are obsessed with round shapes. For the entire holiday period, they dine around round tables and gift each other round fruits and coins. On New Year’s Eve, they wear polka dots to celebrate the circle of life.

In Latin America, and especially in Argentina, Colombia and Brazil, whoever wants to travel in the new year has to walk around the block with an empty suitcase after midnight.

In Chinathere are wishing trees. On New Year’s Eve, people write their wishes on a piece of paper and throw it at one of these sacred trees. If the paper sticks to a branch, the wish will come true in the new year.

Because of the time difference,New Zealandis the first country in the world to celebrate the New Year. In Wellington and other cities it’s traditional to step outside at midnight with your best pots and pans and bang them as loudly as possible.

Every year InCape Verde the New Year’s Eve race is a sporting event that brings together famous African athletes and locals. It takes place right on New Year’s Eve and is also called the New Year’s Eve Midnight Bath, since at the end people jump into the ocean to wash off the previous year.

In more superstitious countries such as Greece, there’s a belief that the first guest to step into the house brings either happiness, if they step over the threshold with their right foot forward, or sorrow, if they step over the threshold with their left foot forward and come empty handed.

Now that you’re the expert on New Year’s traditions across the world, you can no longer be pretend to be caught unaware when you travel! And on that note, Happy New Year from Kalliopé, in every language! 🙂

Anglais : Best wishes 2024

Allemand : Alles Gute Für 2024

Espagnol : Feliz año 2024

Portugais : Feliz Ano Novo 2024

Italien : Buone Feste e Felice Anno Nuovo

Néerlandais : De beste wensen voor 2024

Polonais : Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku 2024

Hongrois : Kellemes Karácsonyi ünnepeket és Boldog új évet kívánunk 2024-re!

Roumain : Sărbători fericite 2024

Ukrainien : З Новим 2024-м роком

Russe : Желаем успехов и процветания в 2024 году!

Chinois : 2024 美好祝愿

Japonais : 謹賀新年 2024

Vetnâmien : Chúc mừng năm mới 2024

Sarah was born of West Indian and Haitian parents. She grew up in a family where several languages were spoken. Her interest in the world’s different cultures has grown with every encounter. When she entered high school, she decided to follow a literary path, studying English and Italian. This choice led her to spend a year in Italy as an Erasmus student, a trip that fascinated her. Back in France, she realized that her career path was too theoretical, so she decided to do a professional Master’s degree in translation at Paris 7. Thanks to her background, in 2010 she began freelancing for 3 years. In 2014, she joined the Kalliopé team as project manager.

Passion and organization.

Her job is to find the right person or people to meet the customer’s specific needs. From then on, she is in charge of the entire translation process. She is the mediator between the translator and the customer. The project manager needs to know everything, because he’s the one who makes the job run smoothly. When the translation is finished, she takes care of proofreading and formatting. Her work requires a strong sense of organization. An organization that was put to work a week after his arrival in January 2014. Right from the start, she was in charge of a very big project: the redesign of a website. This involved translating the content into a dozen languages, including Asian languages such as Korean. On this project, she remembers always being accompanied by her little sheet of paper on which she wrote down absolutely everything. A great introduction that quickly integrated her into the Kalliopé team.

Sarah believes that in our world, we can’t do without translation. Simply knowing English is not enough. She explains, for example, that she works with a hotel group for whom she provides translations in all languages. This work is essential, because even if tourists are more or less fluent in English, some information needs to be translated into their own language. Foreigners need to have information translated by people who know their culture, for a concrete, hard-hitting approach.

Sarah’s Chinese portrait:

If you were a language?

“Italian. It’s a language I discovered when I was in high school, by chance because they offered the option. Despite my English studies, I wanted to continue with Italian and that’s why I left for a year. It’s a language with a very rich history, and it’s also a very pretty, lilting language, which smells of sunshine.”

If you were a country?

“Finland. It’s a country I discovered quite by chance, thanks to some Finnish friends. I’ve been lucky enough to go there twice, and it’s a country that’s so different from anything I’ve seen before. In this country, it’s the place of nature that appeals to me, with its many lakes and forests.”

If you were a culture?

“I’d like to be a mix of different cultures. Taking lots of things from my parents’ culture and others from my friends’ culture. I’d be like a new culture: a cosmopolitan culture.”

JOB OFFER: TRANSLATION PROJECT MANAGER – Type of contract: CDI

Missions :

Complete management of our translation projects, including :

• Analysis of documents to be translated
• Preparing quotations
• Planning (resources, deadlines)
• Research and selection of project translators
• Production monitoring
• Customer/translator interface
• Proofreading
• Billing

Research and selection of new translators: testing – analysis

Using CAT – analysis, projects / packages, proofreading, brief management

Profile and skills:

• Master’s degree 1 or 2 in the field of translation
• Essential mastery of CAT (computer-assisted translation) tools
• Very good level of English and a second language essential
• Sense of service
• Rigor and organization

JOB OFFER: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION PROJECT MANAGER – Type of contract: CDI

Missions :

Complete management of our translation projects, including :

• Analysis of documents to be translated
• Preparing quotations
• Planning (resources, deadlines)
• Research and selection of project translators
• Production monitoring
• Customer/translator interface
• Proofreading
• Billing

Research and selection of new translators: testing – analysis

Using CAT – analysis, projects / packages, proofreading, brief management

Profile and skills:

• English mother tongue imperative
• Good level of French
• Master’s degree 1 or 2 in the field of translation
• Essential mastery of CAT (computer-assisted translation) tools
• Sense of service
• Rigor and organization

INTERNSHIP OFFER: JUNIOR TRANSLATION PROJECT MANAGER – Start date: March/April 2017

Missions :

Reporting to the agency’s project managers, management of our translation projects, including :

• Analysis of documents to be translated
• Preparing quotations
• Planning (resources, deadlines)
• Research and selection of project translators
• Production monitoring
• Customer/translator interface
• Proofreading
• Billing

Using CAT – analysis, projects / packages, proofreading, brief management

Profile and skills:

• Master’s degree 1 or 2 in translation/project management
• Good level of English and a second language essential
• Sense of service
• Rigor and organization

18 years of translating for our clients

From the very beginning, Karine wanted to combine her experience in the field of translation with new technologies to provide her clients with a high standard of specialised translations. The first project manager came onboard in 2008. One year later, Laëtitia Martin-Gonzalez joined the team as a commercial development manager when Kalliopé took over another translation agency. The first major projects started coming in: L’Oréal Professionel asked Kalliopé to translate a large project from Brazilian Portuguese into French and BNP Personal Finance came in with a document on risk management that needed to be translated from French into English in record time. In 2011, Kalliopé took over the translation division of a training company. That same year, the office at Rue Pecquay became too small for the growing team so Kalliopé moved to a new office a few steps away on Rue des Archives.

A strong team for strong growth

By 2016, Kalliopé had built a network of more than 650 translators led by its dedicated project managers . 18 years later, Kalliopé is highly regarded in the industry, its services more sought after than ever before.

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