A few months ago I spent two weeks training at the Caracas, Venezuela office of Squire Sanders & Dempsey. It was a GREAT gig. I found the entire office freakishly tech savvy. They would often finish my sentences as I showed them new features or guess how something should or would work based on what they already knew. Not having a full time technician or trainer (i.e, Hand-holder, Tear-Wiper) in the office has taught them to fend for themselves (how's that go about survival of the fittest?). It was really cool. And while they had to get used to my castilian accent (my family's from Uruguay) - I had to get used to their spanish keyboards. Since we don't really have any "special characters" in our alphabet I didn't need to perform any of the keyboard acrobatics that we often do from the U.S.
How are you supposed to ask your client ¿Donde está mi dinero? without the proper punctuation? Well, leave it to Microsoft to offer yet another cool tool: an International Character Toolbar. It enables you to easily insert international characters from 26 languages into Office 2003 programs. It's an add-in and it's free (we like that).
And just for fun - tell someone you love them in a new way today (girls really dig this stuff, you know):
| Language | I Love You |
|---|---|
| Danish | Jeg elsker dig |
| Dutch | Ik hou van jou |
| Esperanto | Mi amas vin |
| French | Je t'aime |
| German | Ich liebe Dich |
| Indonesian | Saya cinta kamu |
| Italian | Ti amo |
| Japanese | Aishite imasu |
| Latin | Te amo |
| Mandarin Chinese | Wo ai ni |
| Polish | Kocham cie |
| Romanian | Te iu besc |
| Russian | Ya vas liubliu |
| Spanish | Te amo |
| Swedish | Jag alskar dig |
| Turkish | Seni seviyorum |
Thanks to FactMonster
