Creativity and Language Learning
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya Angelou Can learning a new language increase one’s creativity?...
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- Jun 3, 2013
Going Native
Bilinguals learning a second language at an early age are growing in number in our increasingly global and racially mixed society. Until...
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- Apr 15, 2013
Switch Up
Its more than a line from a Black-Eyed Peas song. It’s something most of us do daily whether we are conscious of it or not. Most of us...
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- Feb 25, 2013
Martini Learning
What’s the best way to learn a new language? With a martini of course. Learning a lovely little bit of Italian, you may struggle in class...
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- Feb 4, 2013
Ready, Set, Translate: Teaming Up in the World of Words
How do you get a bunch of lone wolves to work together? The secret, of course, is that wolves are actually not lone wolves by nature, but...
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- Dec 24, 2012
The Day Before Christmas: A Translator’s Tale
‘Twas the Day Before Christmas and all through the agency, Translators finished jobs without complacency. Many “know” our job and what is...
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- Oct 14, 2012
The Wild Life of Words
Not to personify here, but did you know words are born, die and have mid-life crises? According to a team of statistical physicists,...
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- Oct 7, 2012
Translating Idioms: Not Quite a Dime a Dozen
While they can be dismissed as unimportant parts of speech, idioms add spice and life to a language. They are born from their culture of...
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- Sep 24, 2012
Why Bother?
If English is becoming a lingua franca with a billion speakers, why bother learning a foreign language? Isn’t it enough to speak...
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- Sep 17, 2012
The Future of English
What happens when two people who need to communicate with each other learned different mother tongues? In the days of the Ottoman Empire...
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- Sep 14, 2012
Schreibtischtäter [ˈʃra͜iptɪʃtɛːtɐ]
Musings on the raw material of a translator Your average translator is somewhat of a bookworm, and most definitely a pencil pusher (if...
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- Jun 16, 2012
I Eat Your Liver
Nothing reveals the character of a language and thereby—to a certain degree—of its speakers more than idioms and colloquialisms,...
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- Jul 4, 2011
Les Merveilles de l’Oreille
A few weeks ago I had the chance to interpret press interviews for German rock band Rammstein at the Forum in Los Angeles and witnessed...
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