Modern languages evolve, new words get created all the time and some even make it to the Oxford English Dictionary.…
It was announced earlier that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office is to cut funding to the BBC World Service.…
It was good to read in the Evening Standard (20/1/2011) that, as part of the opening ceremony for the 2012…
Do you have any pronunciation pet hates? If people ask you where you stand on ‘aitch’ versus ‘haitch’, do you…
I have recently been reading a few articles about the dwindling take-up of Modern Foreign Languages in schools and other…
I am beginning to despair at our use of English in this country. I won’t profess to be an expert…
I was disappointed to read that Martin Rilker, Associate Director of Dalkey Archive Press, at a recent Literary Translation Conference…
Did you know that last year was the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures? No, neither did I (until…
Translation works best when it is read: choose subtitles over dubbing You will often find linguists are also world cinema…
The August/September 2010 issue of The Linguist, the magazine published by the Institute of Linguists, features a very interesting article…