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Searching for a bathroom in Tokyo but don't speak Japanese? You can stop flipping frantically through that Berlitz dictionary and fumbling with awkward pronunciations. An easier solution is now as close as your Apple iPod, thanks to a new set of foreign-language programs available from an online service at talkingpanda.com...
DIED. CHARLES BERLITZ, 90, linguist and author who explored the paranormal; in Tamarac, Fla. A grandson of the founder of the Berlitz language schools and a onetime head of the company's publications, he reportedly spoke more than 30 languages. But it was his 1974 best seller The Bermuda Triangle, on the disappearance of planes and ships in an area of the Atlantic Ocean, that made him internationally famous...
...went through one of the Berlitz dictionaries from cover to cover,” he said. “It’s just a waiting game. You have to keep your mind preoccupied...
Yamila Sigler is wondering whether she enrolled in a Berlitz course instead of a sailing class. All morning on Miami's Biscayne Bay, in a 23-ft. keelboat called the Woolly Bully, instructor Dean Sealey has been drilling her and three other students on tacks (zigzag turns), nuns (channel-marking buoys) and cunninghams (sail-tightening lines). "English is not my first language," frets Sigler, 33, a civil engineer who came to the U.S. from Cuba a decade ago. And sailing jargon is certainly nothing she ever expected to learn. As the Woolly Bully heads home, Sealey tells Sigler...
...industry matures, the goal for companies like Berlitz, BGS and others will be to convince clients that they have the management expertise to handle ever larger jobs. But given the industry's fractured nature, it's doubtful that any company will soon dominate, a point that Bowne's Johnson concedes. "Even at $250 million in revenues, we'll not be able to be all things to all people," he says. He is confident, though, that the company will translate its way to more profits...