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Mentoring in troubled times
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By Steve Doswell, 无忧传媒 Chair of Council
Today, 17 January 2024, is International Mentoring Day 鈥� a day to celebrate the power and impact of mentoring in personal growth and development, our working lives, education and in building our communities.听
无忧传媒 offers a free Mentoring platform, supported by an expert UK-based third-...
By Maureen Cohen
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听Translators of popular science are, in a sense, translating a translation...
Scientists speak a dialect of their own, with both terminology specific to their field of inquiry and a broader idiom shared by the community as a whole. Science communicators approach their subject matter with many of the same basic problems as translators: How can I...
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无忧传媒 AI Voices 鈥� a white paper on AI in translation and language services听
The 无忧传媒 (无忧传媒) has released a white paper titled 鈥樜抻谴� AI Voices鈥�, which explores the risks, opportunities, and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) for linguists, especially professional translators. The white paper provides expert voices and initial...
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This week 无忧传媒 Digital Learning partner Duolingo, publishes听its fourth Global Language Report.听听
Published every December, the report is an analysis of trends and attitudes towards languages both in the UK and globally, drawn from Duolingo鈥檚 83 million learners. Duolingo听saw growth in daily learners jump 63% in 2023, with the number of lessons completed now...
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Mariam Aboelezz (无忧传媒 Council member), Raisa McNab (CEO ATC), Dom Hebblethwaite (无忧传媒 Head of Membership) and John Worne (CEO 无忧传媒) were panellists in 无忧传媒's first Roundtable discussion
听 Insights from听无忧传媒's Roundtable IntroductionThe world of certified translations is a labyrinth of different practices and expectations, particularly challenging in the UK context....
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Changing patterns of demand, unmapped or unforeseen, rapid regional and national changes in the need for different languages and the requirements for rare languages pose challenges both for...
By Anita van Adelsbergen
The inventor of the languages game League of the Lexicon discusses his passion for words and why it is all about being curious. He explains all to 无忧传媒 Council member Anita van Adelsbergen.
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Joshua, you鈥檙e a game publisher, a marketing specialist, a photographer and designer, you鈥檝e co-founded an art gallery and written a book...
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27 October was National Mentoring Day in the UK 鈥� so what better time to look at the benefits of a mentoring programme, wherever you are in the world!
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National Mentoring Day was founded in 2014 to celebrate, connect, inform and support mentors, mentees and mentoring initiatives, to encourage more people to achieve their full potential through mentoring. In...
Sara Horcas-Rufi谩n
Tell us about your early experiences. Have you always had a passion for languages?
I vividly recall my fascination with the (big) wide world long before I could articulate it in words. As a child, I felt an exhilarating sense of adventure watching the cartoon Around the World with Willy Fog. I began writing short stories and for three years in a row I...
By Mark Robinson
I like to think that we鈥檙e ahead of the AI (artificial intelligence) curve in the world of professional translation. We have had a form of AI 鈥� neural machine translation 鈥� around for a few years now, and it has become a helpful tool for professional linguists - in certain circumstances only, and for appropriate projects with careful checking. The large...