Electronic translator makes travellers’ life easier

Switch, an HSBC Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Malta company, has devised a credit card-size language translator which promises to be a traveller’s best friend. The user-friendly electronic phrase book translates some 705 set phrases into Maltese. The phrases are categorised into eight different sections which include the most common jargon used in restaurants, hotels and accommodation.

The production of this electronic translator is part of the HSBC Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Malta Company Programme, which offers post-secondary students the opportunity to set up and run their own business, while competing on both a national and an international level.

Some 250 sixth form students representing 10 companies take part in this programme which this year is focused on the environment and information technology.

This is the fifth year that HSBC is supporting the Company Programme both financially and in terms of expertise and consultancy by the bank’s staff. So far some e175,000 have been committed by HSBC towards the Company Programme to help these young entrepreneurs develop their innovative ideas into concrete products that make business sense.

“Year on year, the aim of Young Enterprise Malta is to see a good number of Maltese youths develop their own innovative ideas into sustainable projects.

By going through this process, these students experience some of the realities of business life.

Through these first steps in the real world, they start developing a path to success in life,” said Josef Camilleri, Chairman of Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Malta.