Category: Translator life
Faces of Gengo: Enrico
Enrico, an Italian native from Verona, met his American wife-to-be while vacationing in a tiny mountain village in the Alps. Some 20 years later, he now lives with his wife and four children in the U.S. where he is our English to Italian Language Specialist. What languages do you speak and why/ho...
Hall of fame: Michael
In our new blog series, we aim to recognize all Gengo translators who reach specific milestones in their work. A translator in three language pairs (Japanese to English, German to English, and French to English), Michael is one of our Gengo Wordsmiths who has translated over 500,000 units. Locate...
Faces of Gengo: Nozomi
As Gengo’s Director of Marketing Communications, Nozomi’s role centers around defining and managing the company’s brand image as well as raising awareness for Gengo. To achieve this, she focuses on numerous outbound and inbound marketing activities, sales communications for our Tokyo office, as w...
Faces of Gengo: David
David, our Product Manager, is responsible for deciding what we should be focusing on to make Gengo successful and then working with the engineering team to make it happen. To do this, he weighs what is important to our customers and translators against time and resource restraints. As well as th...
Faces of Gengo: Kenta
A Japanese to English, English to Japanese and German to English translator, Kenta started translating while at college in Japan. Now he lives and works in Germany as a neuroscientist studying how the brain changes as we learn, and translates for fun. What languages do you speak? As well as being...
What is a Gengo Wordsmith?
In our ongoing effort to recognize our translators and the skilled work that they do, each month we applaud our hotshot translators who have translated more than 500,000 units during their time as a Gengo translator. Those who achieve this impressive feat are rewarded with the title of Gengo Word...