A group of 1300 “jovencitas eufóricas” sang, cheered, and wrestled with security guards outside the W Hotel in Santiago’s posh El Golf neighborhood, hoping to catch a glimpse of the one and only Canadian heartthrob… JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!!! The crowd’s energy made my inner teenybopper swoon! Justin Bieber had tweeted, “Chile is beautiful” and this message […]
Last night I spoke at the Meetup in Viña del Mar. The event was excellent! Here is the blurb we used to advertise it: Leslie Forman, a California native who spent four years working in China, will speak about the new frontier of connections between California, China, and Chile (EN ESPAÑOL.) She is the daughter […]
Our trip to Chile’s IV Region has brought us up close and personal with Chile’s most high-profile wind energy projects. Parque Eólico Totoral On Ruta 5 Norte between Los Vilos and La Serena, you can see these turbines at the top of the hill. Built by Norwegian developer SN Power, it contains 23 125m wind […]
This week I learned a bunch of new vocabulary in Chinese! 挖土机 [wātǔjī] = bulldozer 港口[gǎngkǒu] = port 皮卡 [píkǎ] = pick-up truck 地形 [dìxíng] = landscape, topography Why did I need these words? I’ve recently started doing some Chinese-Spanish translation work for mining companies. In China I worked in many different industries, but mining […]
September 2, 2011
Several well-intentioned people have suggested names for my hypothetical future China-Chile translation and consultancy business.
I came to Chile as part of Start-Up Chile, a program of the Chilean government to attract world-class early-stage entrepreneurs to start their businesses in Chile. The program is awesome. Here are the top 10 reasons why: 1. Start-Up Chile, Movistar, and Urban Station have worked together to create a gorgeous office for us! Here […]
Lately I have been talking a lot about heat, and thinking about the language we use to describe heat. In a meeting with several senior professors of mechanical engineering, I learned that “heat exchanger” translates to intercambiador de calor, and stretched my brain to explain concentrated solar power technology in semi-intelligent Spanish. Slightly more sophisticated […]