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Help translating department names Portuguese-English

Post by susana.ptg » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:09 pm

Greetings from Portugal,

My name is Susana Araújo and I'm a Portuguese teacher. I'm working with adults who are learning English for business purposes and I need your expertise to find the English meaning for the following names of Departments in a company:

Infra-estrutura
Direcção Corporativa e Financeira
Recursos Humanos e Comunicação
Sistemas de Informação
Compras, Instalação e Manutenção
Administrativa e Financeira
Sistemas de Informação
Compras, Instalação e Manutenção
Administrativa e Financeira
Jurídico e Pessoal
Controlo de Gestão
Área de Sistemas de informação
Suporte ao Utilizador
Sistemas Retail
Sistemas Web
Sistemas Centrais
Jurídico
Remunerações e Relações Laborais
Instalação e Manutenção de Lojas

Do you know any website where I can find more information? I have the Oxford Business English dictionary, but I can't find this information there :?

I appreciate your help in advance!
All the best,

Susana Araújo

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Portuguese to English

Post by eslweb » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:15 am

Infra-estrutura - Infrastructure
Direcção Corporativa e Financeira - Corporate Finance
Recursos Humanos e Comunicação - Human Resources & Communication
Sistemas de Informação - IT / Information Systems
Compras, Instalação e Manutenção - Purchases, Installation and Maintenance Department
Controlo de Gestão - Management Control (?)
Administrativa e Financeira - Administration and Finance
Jurídico e Pessoal - Legal and Personnel
Área de Sistemas de informação - Systems and information Area
Suporte ao Utilizador - User Support
Sistemas Retail - Retail systems
Sistemas Web - Web Systems / Web team
Sistemas Centrais - Head Office (?)
Jurídico - Legal
Remunerações e Relações Laborais - Payroll
Instalação e Manutenção de Lojas - Maintenance and installation

My Portuguese/Spanish is pretty rusty, but these are my best guesses....

I have not got a list of departments on my Website, but I do have plenty of business material that you are welcome to make use of at:
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/bus/index.htm

James

P.S. I will try to make a proper list when I get some spare time and I will post it on the Website.

susana.ptg
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Thank you James

Post by susana.ptg » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:43 pm

Good afternoon James,

Thanks a lot for your precious help!
I'll visit your website and tag it for future reference.

All the best,
Susana

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Just to let you know I added the resource to my site

Post by eslweb » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:25 am

I got a bit of free time today so I added a resource to my site to help you understand business departments in English. Hope it helps.

Its a PDF and can be found on the page:
http://www.jamesabela.co.uk/bus/
(Under Other Business Skills)

James

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