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Designing translation-friendly marketing assets

Making marketing materials work out of the box across multiple countries can be tricky. We've put together some hints and tips to consider when designing your marketing materials in English, so that it makes the translation process quicker and more cost effective. Our top tip: leave plenty of space!
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Comms’ year in review – 2015

It is nearly the end of 2015, which has been another busy year for Comms Multilingual. We have decided to sum up our key facts and figures into an end of year infographic. Find out how many staff, projects and languages we work with, as well as a couple of other interesting facts!
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What is the Difference Between Translation and Adaptation in Psychometric Testing? (Guest Post)

Taking psychometric test items abroad is about so much more than translation. In our second guest post, Dr. Joy Matthews-López talks about some of the considerations she has faced in the past adapting her items for Mexico.
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E-ATP Conference 2015 – Closing thoughts…

We recently attended the E-ATP conference 2015 in Dublin. Read a little about the keynotes, as well as our CEO's team, Team Yellow, which won this year's certification 'hackathon'! If you work in the assessment or testing industry, E-ATP should definitely be on your agenda!
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Test Adaptation: A Psychometric Perspective (Guest Post)

Comms has been asking industry thought leaders to provide guest contributions for our blog. In her first post for Comms Multilingual, Dr. Joy Matthews-López, Senior Psychometrician at the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) writes about test adaptation and equivalence of translated and adapted versions to the original.
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Optimising your translation and localisation projects: cost and time

What's the best way of slimming down a translation or localisation project to make it as efficient and cost-effective as possible? We look at some common ways of optimising the content to make sure you're not paying over the odds.
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Upcoming Conferences & Exhibitions

Comms Multilingual is proud to be a Sponsor at the 2026 IAEA Annual Conference!

September 27, 2026 - October 02, 2026
Comms Multilingual is proud to sponsor the IAEA Annual Conference 2026 in Toronto, bringing together professionals from across the international educational assessment community to explore fairness, technology and the future of multilingual assessment.
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