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The Council of Europe recently advertised on the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ website for an English Language Checker to check legal texts and ensure they are clear and comprehensible. The job was located in Strasbourg, France.

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Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 - 4:08pm
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Jobs

By Antonica-Roxana Clinciu

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As a recent graduate in English Language and Literature, with a fluency in English and a native command of Romanian, I find myself standing at the threshold of a vast linguistic landscape, eager to immerse myself in the art of interpretation and translation. It's not merely a career path I'm drawn to, but rather a calling rooted in a...

Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 - 12:43pm

By Debbie Butler


As we celebrate International Women's Day, as a longstanding member of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ team, a member of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee and as a linguist (German) myself, I feel it is well worth recognising the remarkable contributions of female linguists, interpreters and translators as we celebrate International Women’s Day. Many women...

Published on Friday, 8 March 2024 - 10:19am
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The Linguist

By Spencer Hawkins
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How can the translator hope to render complex theoretical concepts in another language? Spencer Hawkins looks to Freud to argue for a controversial translation approach.


The meaning of theoretical concepts such as Anlehnungstypus (Sigmund Freud’s name for the opposite of narcissism) is debated among native speakers. So how can translators...

Published on Thursday, 22 February 2024 - 4:27pm
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The Linguist


By Gwenydd Jones MA, DipTrans, MCIL, Chartered Linguist

The Translator's Studio

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Since I have no functioning crystal ball, this article is my opinion in 2024 about the future of translation. If you’re asking yourself whether AI is going to replace translators, I’d like to throw a couple of questions back at you:

First, have you used ChatGPT to...
Published on Wednesday, 21 February 2024 - 1:00pm
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The Linguist

By Nataliya Yachmeneva

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Nataliya Yachmeneva outlines the challenges of cybersecurity translation and understanding the concepts behind the terminology


We all bear witness to the breakneck speed at which the concepts of IT and cybersecurity have been evolving, together with software and hardware designed to counteract growing cybercrime. No...

Published on Wednesday, 7 February 2024 - 5:41pm
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The Linguist

Thoughts from the steering group of the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Scottish Society


In many ways, Scotland is a great place to be a linguist. It is a multilingual, multicultural and inclusive society. Linguistic diversity is part of the national identity: while English is the main language, over 150 other languages are spoken in Scottish homes.

Historically, Gaelic was the main language...

Published on Wednesday, 31 January 2024 - 4:54pm

Mentoring in troubled times
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By Steve Doswell, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Chair of Council


Today, 17 January 2024, is International Mentoring Day – a day to celebrate the power and impact of mentoring in personal growth and development, our working lives, education and in building our communities.Ìý

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ offers a free Mentoring platform, supported by an expert UK-based third-...

Published on Wednesday, 17 January 2024 - 11:55am
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The Linguist

By Maureen Cohen

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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...

Published on Friday, 5 January 2024 - 10:58am
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The Linguist
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News

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ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ AI Voices – a white paper on AI in translation and language services

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The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ (ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½) has released a white paper titled ‘ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ AI Voices’, which explores the risks, opportunities, and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) for linguists, especially professional translators. The white paper provides expert voices and initial...

Published on Thursday, 7 December 2023 - 11:19am
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News