Sunday, September 30, 2018

International Translation Day 2018

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This day, 30 September, has been declared International Translation Day by UNESCO and the International Federation of Translators. The date ...
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Thursday, September 20, 2018

We Can All Be Polyglots

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Cardinal Mezzofanti A friend in Paris has sent me a recent article from an unexpected source, The New Yorker . It's by one of their...
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Saturday, August 11, 2018

A 4-Year-Old Polyglot Translator

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Bilingual young children are commonplace in the village where I live. They speak Spanish and Valencian. Moreover, once they go to school ...
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Friday, July 20, 2018

The Queen of Spain Thanks Her Tactile Interpreters

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A little over a hundred kilometres to the south of where I live lies the resort town of Benidorm . IMHO it's a blight on the Spanish...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Was Koko, the 'talking' gorilla, bilingual?

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Many people felt a pang of sorrow last week at the news that the most famous and most studied of gorillas, Koko , had died peacefully ...
Monday, June 11, 2018

The Ethos of School Language Brokering

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First a terminology round-up. The term language brokering came into use in the 1990s in the USA. The story of its later subdivision into...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

NPIT4 at Stellenbosch

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Today the 4th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT) opens at Stellenbosch University near Cape...
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