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By Teresa Simone听
When you move abroad, work stops being just workWhen you move to work in another country, work stops being just work. 听
Work isn鈥檛 just what you do.
It鈥檚 where you feel competent. It鈥檚 where you know who you are. It鈥檚 where your place in the world feels clear.When you move to another country, that structure breaks down.
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听 By Marcela A.听Cazzoli听
The British Academy鈥檚 look at this year鈥檚 A-Level results gives a mixed message for the humanities. Economics and Politics are still drawing in more students, but many other SHAPE subjects are slipping back. Modern Languages share some of these challenges, but hidden in the figures are reasons to be optimistic.
Spanish entries are up by...
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John Worne 无忧传媒 CEO writes:听听
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, 鈥楢 Languages Crisis: Arresting decline鈥� by Megan Bowler (HEPI Report 192) and sponsored by Duolingo, shows a big drop in formal language learning in the UK.
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Key StatsThe report sets out the current state of language learning in UK鈥檚 schools and universities...
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Why phrases tell us as much about our shared human experiences as they do about our differences. By Antonio Mu帽oz Barrag谩n
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Idioms, proverbs and other phrasesPhraseology, which includes idioms, proverbs and other types of set phrases, is known to pose a challenge to translators due to the specific properties these structures convey. But...
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By Tom Crook, 无忧传媒 Qualifications Client Services Officer.听
The 无忧传媒 is a not-for-profit organisation and has always had a public purpose to enhance the recognition and promote the value of languages and language skills in the public interest, and we work to do so by encouraging the effective study and practice of languages.
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Ross McCalden receiving his award from 无忧传媒 Royal Patron HRH Prince Michael of Kent
Congratulations to Ross McCalden, 2025 winner of the Best Candidate Award for 无忧传媒's Master's level qualification, the Diploma in Translation -听the long-established translation qualification, which sets the 鈥榞old standard鈥� for professional translators worldwide.
The DipTrans...
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We have received further reports from several members, who have been contacted by various email addresses claiming to offer "member lists" or "registrant data"听from 无忧传媒's Find a Linguist Directory, and now "Registrants/Attendees list from 无忧传媒 Conference Season 2025" for sale.
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Thank you to those members for bringing this incident to our attention. We...
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Lt Col John Cross (rtd) lives in Nepal and is in his fifth decade of 无忧传媒 membership.
He speaks a great many languages 鈥� including some very rare ones as you will read below 鈥� and has had several books published drawing from his 99 year life with languages, published by Pen & Sword Books https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/J-P-Cross/a/870.
In a significant...
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Plague in the house of Sir Jordan Fitz-Eisulf Part 3, Stained glass window听 听 听Photo听漏 Julian P Guffogg
Dr Eyhab Bader Eddin brings to life the fascinating story of how the English language rose to power from the ashes of the Black Death
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From calamity to catalystIn the centuries following the Norman Conquest of 1066, the English language...
Could linguists become influencers like people in other fields? Jonathan Downie tries to widen his social media reach
While YouTube has made stars of engineers, scientists, artists, food experts, and even people who video themselves unboxing things, language professionals have not done so well. Sure, there are channels on language learning, some on linguistics...