Resources
The RLN provides a wide range of free language resources to help your business access new markets, improve international communications and utilise language services.
How To guides
Our range of How To guides provide advice for businesses on choosing and using language professionals such as translators and language trainers, improving international communications and employing multilingual staff.
Browse our full range of How To guides 
Cultural briefings
Our two-page cultural briefings serve as a useful introduction to new markets and incoude general information such as business etiquette, basic phrases, geography and economy. These guides currently cover 29 countries including Brazil, China, India, the Middle East and Russia.
Browse our full range of cultural briefings
Top Tips information sheets
Top tips to help your business better understand the process behind and how to commission language services such as translation and website localisation:
Download top tips for working with translators
Download top tips for localising your website
Business language research
You might also be interested in some business language research commissioned by the RLN to find out more about employer demand for language and cross-cultural skills in West Midlands businesses.
Find out more about this business research
Useful language and culture books
The RLN has compiled a list of useful language and culture books which might be helpful to those involved in international trade. The books cover topics such as language, cross-cultural communication and business etiquette.
Download book list (pdf 28KB)
RLN West Midlands bi-monthly e-zine
You can read the latest from the RLN WM in our bi-monthly e-zine, The Business of Language. Please visit our news pages to browse our newsletter archives.
Read the latest edition of the Business of Language
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