GDPR has been a point of focus during this first quarter and, together with our ISO 27001 certification, has presented us with the opportunity to consolidate our practices that have long put data security at the heart of our business. This has added significance for Global Lingo in 2018 as we move closer to a fully integrated technology platform.

The beginning of 2018 witnessed significant levels of activity in all Global Lingo services - far exceeding the same period in 2017 and on track to deliver another year of 25% growth.

Our North America business has had a flying start to the year, winning new business in key verticals, and becoming the preferred language services partner for an increasing number of our multinational customers. With our global platform spread across four different time zones, we are utilising our geographical footprint to improve turnarounds and offer seamless 24-hour coverage.

Just in case you thought we were becoming too predictable, six intrepid Glingos are bravely undertaking the UK Three

Peak Challenge on 23rd June in aid of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. All contributions, whatever the amount, are very welcome, and donations go to this very deserving charity. You can read more about the climb and the charity later in this newsletter. To donate please visit https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/global-lingo-duchenneuk .

Wishing everyone a great summer!

Best,

Mark Williams - CEO

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Getting Ready for the EU’s Data Privacy Shake-up

GDPR

The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) later this month will call for greater transparency in how companies obtain, process, and store personal data. Media coverage on Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, cookies, cold calling, and invasive banner advertising, highlight the need for data privacy laws to catch up with the huge and rapid developments in technology and electronic communication.

Security of information has long been at the heart of everything we do at Global Lingo. As well as putting in place robust security controls in our workflows and data management tools, we have long worked hard to ensure our staff understand and are aware of their role in protecting the data they process as part of their everyday lives at Global Lingo, how they use the internet, why we use encrypted communication means, and what rules are in place when accessing our systems remotely.

In 2017, we contracted BM Trada as official external auditor of our Information Security Management System. This will enable us to be certified in ISO 27001 (Information Security) later this year. Not only will this aid us in meeting our Company security objectives but will provide peace of mind to all of our stakeholders that their data is safe and secure in our hands.

Over the past year, the Global Lingo team have been reviewing our systems and the way in which we work, to ensure that we can guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and protection of its own information assets, and any information we process on behalf of others. Our work on GDPR compliance has also enabled us to spread a perception and awareness of information security issues within the business and externally.

Against this background, our updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Business have been recently published on our website, and we have been working with our client and supplier bases to ensure we only communicate with them in the way they would like us to.

On 23rd June this year, several of the Glingo team will be taking on one of the more infamous physical challenges in the United Kingdom: The National Three Peaks.

This involves attempting to climb the highest mountains of England, Scotland and Wales... all within just 24 hours. In total our team will hike more than a marathon including a total ascent of just shy of 10,000 feet.

We’re of course doing this to raise money for a very worthy cause, Duchenne UK. This small but very focused charity is working to help fund and develop treatments for muscular dystrophy.

The team attempting this almighty challenge includes: our founder, Andrew Trotter, as well as Jonny Bates from our US

The Three Peaks Challenge

office, Karl Eastwood and David Willan all the way from Cluj, Romania, Romain Chapman, Kais Alayej and Chetan Khushal.

In doing so they’ll be aiming to raise a whopping £5,000 and we’d really appreciate any support from our clients, suppliers, friends and family alike.

To donate, please go to our JustGiving page: https://lnkd.in/gQ8tskF.

Please also visit the https://lnkd.in/gFqXiCg website to learn more about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and how donations can truly help sufferers of this horrible disease.

A view of Ben Nevis in Scotland, one of the daunting Three Peaks

Profile: Kais Alayej Hello! I’m Kais, and I’m one of the Project Managers at Global Lingo. I’ve worked for the company since April 2015, which I can’t quite believe was over three years ago!

My previous job was in educational training, and I’ve also worked in a number of proofreading and hospitality roles. I’ve looked after the minute-taking side of things since January this year, and am really enjoying myself; I love the feeling of solving problems on the fly, and the new situations that each day brings.

I’m originally from the green fields and open skies of Lincolnshire, and go back whenever I can to see family and friends, and refill my lungs with clean countryside air. But ever since I was a teenager, I’ve loved London, and after spending three years here studying English at UCL, I knew it was where I wanted to live. I feel incredibly lucky to walk along the banks of the Thames every day, taking in sights people travel from all over the world to see.

I’m not as linguistically talented as some others in the company, but I come from a multilingual family: my mum is a French teacher, so speaks English and French fluently, and my dad is Tunisian, so speaks both of those and Arabic to boot.

Thanks to the international makeup of my family, I have more bi- and trilingual aunts, uncles and cousins than I can count! It’s been a few years since I’ve been able to make the previously-annual summer trip to Tunisia, and I can’t wait to return soon.

I’m excited about what the future holds, professionally and personally. I’m blessed with great colleagues, who are as funny and friendly as they are dependable and industrious.

Global Lingo as a whole is on an impressive growth path, and I’m happy to contribute my own small part. Away from work, I’m thrilled to be getting married in January and starting a new chapter in my life; considering I’ve known my fiancée for over 15 years, she would probably say it’s not a moment too soon!

Mix the meat with the onion and let it cook, until the juice from the meat is reduced. Then, add the rice and leave it for five minutes on the stove, mixing constantly.

Now that we have both the cabbage and the meat prepared, we can proceed to putting the final preparation on the tray.

Take a large enough tray, with thicker walls (preferably a clay one) and spread some oil on it. Add a layer of cabbage, one of meat with onion and rice, 3-4 spoons of oil and tomato paste and 2-3 slices of pork or Kaiser, depending on what you’ve chosen to use. Over the Kaiser, add again a layer of cabbage, one of meat, and continue like that until the composition comes to an end. The important thing is to finish the food with a layer of cabbage and few slices of Kaiser.

If you used fresh white cabbage, and not pickled one, besides a cup of water, also put a cup of sour soup. Put the tray in the oven at 150 degrees for 2 hours. Cabbage à la Cluj is ready to be served with sour cream, hot peppers and polenta.

Enjoy!

Courtesy of: https://www.romania-insider.com/recipe-from-romania-cabbage-a-la-cluj-varza-a-la-cluj/

Recipes from around the worldCabbage à la Cluj Cabbage à la Cluj is an original way to prepare the cabbage: spicier, making it more consistent. You can prepare this anytime because it’s an excellent food, easy to prepare.

Ingredients

2 medium cabbages (pickled cabbage is recommended)

1 to 1.2kg minced pork and beef meat

150g rice

2 big onions

6-8 spoons of tomato paste

Kaiser / Pork / Bacon

A cup of sour soup (if you do not use pickled cabbage)

Oil

Pepper, salt, thyme

Method

Cut the cabbage, rub it with salt and then fry it in three spoons of oil. When the cabbage becomes soft, put half of cup of water and keep mixing constantly. Add a sprig of thyme, and mix in the pot until the water evaporates.

After the cabbage is done, you have to boil the rice. Clean and cut the onions, then cook them in two spoons of oil. Add the meat over the onion and season it with salt and pepper.