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Why each language version tells a different story, and the power dynamics behind the platform. By Guilherme Fians
Few would disagree that the airplane is one of the great marvels of modern engineering 鈥� and we could confidently call that a consensus. But consult Wikipedia about who invented it and the answer depends on the language you read. On the English-...
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听 GCHQ National Language Competition听 November 2025听
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Calling all UK secondary schools!无忧传媒 is pleased to help GCHQ spread the word about their online National Language Competition in November this year for Year 9 (England and Wales) / S2 (Scotland) / Year 10 (N Ireland) pupils across the country. (Teachers in Scotland:听please note the change from S3...
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We continue to receive reports from members听who have been contacted by various email addresses with spam and scam content.听Thank you to those members for bringing these incidents to our attention. We wanted听to share them in case of help or use to other members.听
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by听 Dr Eyhab Abdulrazak Bader Eddin
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A trilingual realm unfoldsImagine walking into a 13th-century English courtroom. The judge addresses the court in French, the clerk scribbles notes in Latin, and the plaintiffs mutter to each other in English.
This vivid scene captures the reality of post-Norman Conquest England, where three tongues coexisted in a...
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听This is the final post in a series of three follow-up posts to the 无忧传媒 roundtable Freelance linguists: navigating careers in a changing profession featuring Ilenia Goffredo, Karine Chevalier-Watts and Ibrahim Kadouni. It explores and expands on the panellists鈥� ideas and contributions. Watch the full roundtable video here.
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Building windmills鈥楾here are two...
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听This is post two in a series of three follow-up posts to the 无忧传媒 roundtable Freelance linguists: navigating careers in a changing profession featuring Ilenia Goffredo, Karine Chevalier-Watts and Ibrahim Kadouni. It explores and expands on the panellists鈥� ideas and contributions. Watch the full roundtable video here.
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What is happening?鈥榃e feel a little bit...
An academic and personal reflection on 鈥榣anguage attrition鈥�
by Dr Pier听Pischedda, MCIL Chartered Linguist
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Losing touch with your mother tongueAs much as we can learn a language, we can also lose it. This is a familiar topic in linguistics, and as linguists, we often discuss how maintaining a second language requires constant study and active use,...
By Professor Monika S Schmid
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A recent YouGov poll suggested that over 70% of adults in the UK support languages as an obligatory subject in schools, and many regret not having studied them more themselves.
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A longstanding argumentThe argument goes back a long time. In the aftermath of World War I, it was suggested that language...
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鈥業 started getting fewer enquiries in all languages, so not just in my own language pair of English鈥揊rench, but also in the other languages that I was representing through my agency鈥� Karine Chevalier-Watts
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It鈥檚 no secret that many freelance translators and translation agencies started seeing a drop in translation workload in 2024. However, some...