Focus on… Interpreters
Interpreters… Who are they? What do they do? An interpreter is often confused with a translator. In fact, it is partially true as the translator works with the written word and the interpreter...
View ArticleLanguages? Sprachen! Langues?
26th September marks the European Day of Languages. Europe is such as small part of the globe and yet it has such a heritage of languages. Denmark, Holland, Iceland, Croatia may not be large in size,...
View ArticleFrom Tsars to Oligarchs
A language is a living thing. It changes, modifies itself and moves on. Like a sponge, it grasps all of the innovations and finds ways of expressing them. This often happens through borrowing. In no...
View ArticleFocus on Ukraine
As the country hosting Euro-2012 Football Championship along with Poland, Ukraine has naturally enjoyed a certain interest over the past few months and this curiosity will only grow as we head towards...
View ArticleStreets, Lanes, Squares… What a Tangled Web we Weave
One of the things which have amazed me since my move from Russia to the UK more than 10 years ago is the English way of naming their streets. There seems to be a tendency to follow history and...
View ArticleTranslator v Interpreter: which one?
As a full member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, I sometimes happen to explain to our clients the actual difference between translation and interpreting. The general public and even...
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Why free machine translation may cost a lot
It’s hardly possible to find or imagine a business which doesn’t use at least some most common modern technologies in its day-to-day operations. The days of paper-only records and fax machines are...
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Russian translators network in Nottingham
“Never miss an opportunity which, coupled with knowledge, leads to success” – would be a fair description of the general feeling among Russian translators and interpreters at the networking lunch we...
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Raising awareness about what we do
The article Spreading the Word by Sarah Griffin-Mason in the May-June issue of the ITI Bulletin struck a chord with me. It encourages us as linguists to educate the general public about the value we...
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How I tested Skype Translator in Russian
This autumn Skype has released a new version of its video translation/interpreting software which handles Russian. The story made it to major Russian news sources with a great deal of excitement...
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