Translation, Linguistics and Freelancing in the 21st Century
Those of you who last month read about the reported short of decent English translators for the EU may be interested to listen to this interview on Radio 4’s PM programme aired yesterday. Quite a lot of airtime was dedicated to the subject on the programme, with some interesting points raised. You can listen again
...I recently had a bad experience with an online grocery delivery service provided by one of the UK’s major supermarkets. You may wonder why on earth a freelance translator is choosing to blog about supermarket shopping, but stay with me, my blog has not been hijacked by a consumer rights blogger.
The relevance of this bad
Well, it’s not my actual birthday, but instead the 1st birthday of this blog! Well, it was actually last Friday, so you’ll have to excuse my tardiness to my own party.
I actually feel like I’ve been blogging for longer than just 1 year, in a good way. It’s hard to imagine how I engaged in
This seems to be a week for links on my blog, but I can’t resist posting yet another one to a fantastic article by Agnès Poirier on the decreasing number of Brits studying languages, and offers some observations as to why that might, or might not, be. Here’s a sample:
I don’t know what’s most irritating
Stephen Fry’s ‘Fry’s English Delight’ is currently airing on BBC Radio 4 every Monday morning at 10am. The programme’s website can be found here, where you can listen to the latest edition at any time. I’ve just listened to the first edition, which discusses the use of metaphor in the English language. Absolute word-nerd heaven…
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