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When I left a successful sales career to become a freelance translator, I brought with me a sense of purpose, excitement and the (potentially dangerous) need to prove myself. I had made a bold decision to follow a long-held passion and turn it into a...

Published on Wednesday, 25 June 2025 - 11:13am
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Amina Saif is a Chartered Linguist and a Fellow of the 无忧传媒. Just back from a major interpreting assignment at the G7 meeting in Canada, which she describes as 鈥榓 career milestone, and a moment of reflection on how far I鈥檝e come in this journey..鈥, she shares with us what it takes to work with world leaders, interpreting on the international...

Published on Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 11:43am

If you look at today鈥檚 leadership playbook, you鈥檒l see a lot of talk about empathy and emotional intelligence (EQ). These are, of course, crucial. But as the world grows more diverse and interconnected, it鈥檚 becoming clear that the next big leap in leadership isn鈥檛 just about feeling what others feel 鈥 it鈥檚 about being truly eclectic: blending, adapting, and drawing...

Published on Monday, 23 June 2025 - 10:49am

听 无忧传媒 Vice President David Crystal writes on the recent 无忧传媒 competition to select a suitable collective noun for linguists听

The Origins of Collective Nouns in English听

I imagine all languages have ways to talk about groups of animals, people, and things, but I doubt any can match English for the range and variety of collective nouns that this language has...

Published on Friday, 20 June 2025 - 10:46am
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The winning collective noun for linguists - a Glot of Linguists - from听the Chartered Institute of听Linguists contest to find a term to听describe language professionals, was first announced at the 无忧传媒 Conference and is confirmed in the summer issue of听The Linguist.

From听a shortlist of ten, 无忧传媒鈥檚 Awards & Recognition听Committee, Council and Educational...

Published on Monday, 16 June 2025 - 10:40am
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In the second of a series of three blog posts, Shehzaad Shams explains why English can cause a blind spot, which gets in the way of 鈥榣eadership through languages鈥.听

English as the default

Most leadership research comes from English-speaking countries. There鈥檚 an unspoken assumption that language is just the background noise, not something that...

Published on Friday, 13 June 2025 - 10:45am


By Jonathan Downie

I think we missed the point of interpreting

If I wanted, I could take a course on interpreting every day for the next year. From AI courses to consec technique, from marketing to terminology management, we can grow just about any interpreting or interpreting-related skill we like.

All that is great. There are more training...

Published on Thursday, 12 June 2025 - 3:41pm



By Andreja Milo拧evi膰 MCIL

This text was prepared by Prof. Jelena Stojic as an extension of the interview given by Prof. Stojic to the author for Part 2 in the "Gender Sensitivity in the Serbian Language" series.


Grammatical gender vs gender as a social construct

In the Serbian language all nouns, whether they are animate or inanimate, have a so-called...

Published on Thursday, 12 June 2025 - 10:59am


In the first of a three-blog series, Shehzaad Shams introduces the concept of 鈥榣eadership through languages鈥 鈥 as the superpower of 鈥楨clectic Leaders鈥 鈥 a new insight into the leadership domain.听

Leadership through languages

For me, 鈥楲eadership Through Languages鈥 sits at the intersection of the four core domains of applied linguistics, applied psychology...

Published on Thursday, 5 June 2025 - 11:57am