Breaking the language barrier in business

Regular listeners will recognise Levent Yildizgoren, managing director of TTC wetranslate. In this special edition of the podcast, Geoffrey Bowden, founder of the European Association of Translation Companies, turns the tables on Levent. Both men have successful track records in the translation industry and both have come to the UK from overseas. Today Bowden runs a successful PR agency and runs a radio station where he uses his journalistic background to put politicians on the spot. Here he puts Levent in the interviewee’s chair to find out more about his life, the origins of TTC wetranslate and his work with the University of Essex building the Translation Challenge. This inspiring competition brings real business leaders to the table and challenge students to translate for them. Levent talks about how the challenge is helping to close the gap between academics and business.