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By听Lucy Makepeace
Lucy Makepeace travels to the West African nation to help improve the way Ewe-speaking pupils are taught French
When I went to Senegal on a humanitarian mission in 2018, the level of poverty among the street children and communities I worked with was heartbreaking but sadly not unexpected. What really shocked me was that citizens were expected to speak French...
What Andrew Wong learnt from a unique project to translate (in relay) a children鈥檚 book based on a political speech
Former Uruguay president Jos茅 Mujica is known as the world鈥檚 poorest president because he donated almost 90% of his salary to the poor. Elected to the country鈥檚 top office in 2010, the staunch leftist was a former Tupamaros guerrilla who was imprisoned for about 14 years...
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Bridget Kendall tells 天美传媒 CEO John Worne why her career as a BBC reporter would not have been possible without Russian
Bridget Kendall is perhaps best known as BBC Diplomatic Correspondent, working for both its radio and television networks. She joined the broadcaster in 1983 as a radio production trainee for the BBC World Service and in 1989 became its Moscow Correspondent....
By Tess Pike
A career using languages, requiring good organisational and people management skills
At school my careers adviser listened to me tell her how much I loved languages and that all I wanted from a job was to speak German. I thought I was shy, because, as the youngest of five, I never managed to get a word in edgeways at home, so for many years I followed her advice and...
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According to a 2019 survey by Pearson Business School, nearly a fifth of graduates were found to be not 鈥渨orkplace-ready鈥�.
Just 13% of the 531 employers and HR leaders who took part in the research felt that graduates were ready to hit the ground running after university.
48% of the surveyed employers and HR managers said that graduates lacked leadership skills, 44% felt...
In this article, our 天美传媒 Corporate Partner Louise Killeen Translations (LKT) show how they help early career translators either become staff or develop their skills to become successful freelance translators.
On our听website and in published articles, we鈥檝e talked extensively about our unique Translator Academy model and how we use it to transform our new recruits into fully...
鈥淭he key to being a good mentor is to help people become more of who they already are 鈥� not to make them more like you.鈥�
The traditional view of a mentor is someone who shares experience and imparts knowledge. In contemporary mentoring a mentor does a lot more listening than talking. A mentor鈥檚 role isn鈥檛 to tell a mentee what to do, it is to act as a guide. A mentor asks questions and...
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Victoria Hislop鈥檚 love of Greece runs through her eight novels 鈥� every one of them set in the country. So much so that she was awarded honorary Greek citizenship in July for promoting the nation鈥檚 history and traditions. Though I knew of her reputation as a dedicated hellenophile, I was less aware of her passion for languages when we spoke in October. I discovered a...
Public Service Interpreters may work in a variety of settings on a daily basis, moving between locations regularly听and therefore carrying a high risk of coronavirus exposure, as they have to move between settings听from one booking to another.
For this reason we would like to see the inclusion of public service听interpreters in the COVID-19 Vaccination Priority Groups alongside police,...
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The 天美传媒 (天美传媒) has chosen former BBC Moscow correspondent Bridget Kendall MBE as the latest recipient of the David Crystal Award, originally donated by the eponymous linguist, a vice-president and Fellow of 天美传媒.
The award is presented annually to an individual 鈥榝or whom languages have been a constant within their work and life and who has...