Academia Translations

24/07/2018

Retweeted Sarah Bawa Mason ():

Translating for Brexit - see the official ITI response to Dominic Raab.

https://t.co/qGvj3FqRbq https://t.co/WEbtiYs1iD

20/07/2018

Oh dear. If ever there was a time to get it right...

It sounds "very mythical" in German, and Dutch people are having a harder time reading it in Dutch than in English.

11/06/2018

The pressures of being an at a high-stakes summit: https://t.co/9TPjLVa4KR …

President Trump doesn't speak Korean and little is known about Kim Jong Un's English skills. The best interpreters serve as both linguists and diplomats. They understand the politics behind the words.

11/06/2018

The pressures of being an at a high stakes summit: https://t.co/9TPjLVa4KR

President Trump doesn't speak Korean and little is known about Kim Jong Un's English skills. The best interpreters serve as both linguists and diplomats. They understand the politics behind the words.

23/05/2018

On and Social Mobility: https://t.co/BhbhxIEb0c You can listen to my interview on this old chestnut on our website: https://t.co/kNfX3hDwKs

Sir, I was intrigued by Jonathan Meades’s remarks on an apparent decline in the prestige of Received Pronunciation (“Queen’s English does not deserve its snobby status, critic declares”, May 22).

23/05/2018

Looking forward to listening to The Future of by on . Warming up with this interesting article:

English is spoken by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, but do new translation technology and "hybrid" languages threaten its status?

22/05/2018

Is it really easier to between related ? Take a look at our latest blog post:

According to the US’s Foreign Service Institute, the easiest languages to learn for native English speakers unsurprisingly include Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch. The reason? These are the most similar languages to English. Students can learn vocabulary easier if it is similar to words they ...

11/05/2018

You are never too old to become fluent in a foreign :

from www.shutterstock.com Monika Schmid, University of Essex A new study on second language learning has recently taken the British media by storm. A range of headlines – from the BBC to the Daily Mail and The Guardian – all trumpeted the depressing message that it’s impossible to become fluen...

02/05/2018

Retweeted Verbatim Services ():

BBC News - Critical window for learning a language

Scientists say there is a cut-off age for learning a language fluently.

02/05/2018

Oops! Macron calls Australian PM's wife "delicious" in a translation mishap: https://t.co/Lo0wJ4CFm1

French President Emmanuel Macron accidentally called the Australian Prime Minister's wife "delicious" in an apparent translation mishap.  The French leader slipped up when he was thanking Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy for their hospitality during a two-day visit to Australia.  Wrapping up...

30/04/2018

What we lose when we lose a :

Linguists generally agree that almost half of the world’s nearly 7,000 languages will be extinct within the next century as dominant languages take over