16 Feb

Understanding Linguistics: Follow the bagel (Pt. 06/12)

I will never forget the first time I had to teach an English as a second language class to an

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16 Feb

How to proofread translations

Ensuring a quality translation requires more than extensive terminological research and grammatical accuracy. Translations should be proofread before they are

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16 Feb

Why learn a dead language?

Last week we discussed minority languages in the UK and their revival. But what happens when languages disappear all together?

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16 Feb

Great British Dialects

Although Britain is a small country, it has many regional dialects and different accents. Foreign visitors arriving in the port

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16 Feb

CROESO I BRYDAIN

Although English is the official language of the British Isles, minority languages dating back hundreds of years are still spoken

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16 Feb

Tourism translations with flair

This week one of our English translators offers some advice about translating for the tourism sector. The first translations assigned

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16 Feb

Proverbs and idiomatic expressions

Translating is transposing a concept, a message, a symbolic idea into another language. It is therefore important to be aware

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16 Feb

NEXT STOP BRISTOL

  This week our blog features a special entry from one of our English translators: she shares her experiences as

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16 Feb

Understanding linguistics: grappling with meaning (Pt. 05/12)

In our previous article, we briefly looked at how cultural linguists study the complexities of human cultures as they relate

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16 Feb

Understanding Linguistics: Becoming other (Pt. 04/12)

As we briefly discussed in our previous article, scores of scientists over time have extensively studied the act of phonation,

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