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This week 天美传媒 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 (天美传媒 Council member), Raisa McNab (CEO ATC), Dom Hebblethwaite (天美传媒 Head of Membership) and John Worne (CEO 天美传媒) were panellists in 天美传媒's first Roundtable discussion
听 Insights from听天美传媒'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 天美传媒 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...
By Dr Joseph Lambert
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"Happy robots鈥� - AI and robots are听now literally everywhere..!听Photo from Joseph鈥檚 recent trip to Copenhagen.
What are the biggest threats and opportunities to you as a professional freelance translator today? Are you happy with your rates of pay and working conditions? What is the longer-term outlook for the...
By Karl McLaughlin
Translating inflight magazines and why it is the perfect gig for translators with wanderlust!
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Who has not read a travel magazine or supplement and felt jealous of the writers who are paid to visit appetising destinations? Among linguists, such travel possibilities tend to be associated with conference interpreters lucky enough to be...
By Giulia Lucania
Food conveys history, identity and tradition. These aren鈥檛 just empty terms, they symbolise worlds whose stories are just waiting to be told.
Translating and writing for the food and beverage industry isn鈥檛 always a piece of cake. It has two main flavours, technical and creative. This sector is brimming with lots of different text types,...