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I recently attended a workshop at Remark!, the largest Deaf-run and Deaf-led company in the UK, specialising in translation and access, broadcast TV and video production, interpreting and training. As my colleague Bérengère and I approached the new Remark! office, just ten minutes’ walk from our own office on Fleet…

Here is another great contribution from Lily our intern from China! As a native Chinese, I can say that we tend to regard the mastery of a foreign language as having a competitive edge in the business world as well as being fashionable in our daily lives. With the prevalence…

What do you do when you’re not happy about something? Sulk around a bit, have the hump around your loved ones, buy a tub of ice cream or bar of chocolate, or maybe go set fire to some bins, homes, shops and have a good old time looting your local…

Amongst all of the businesses today, the sectors of media and mass communication have been transformed more than ever by the rapidity with which technology has rendered the world borderless. Previously, only big budget media products could ever hope to be distributed worldwide. Nowadays, anything that anyone has produced can…

Being a project manager in a translation company is, for the most part, an enjoyable job. There are, however, the occasional blips which we can’t help to gripe about. Working in a role as a ‘mediator’ sitting on the translation ‘fence’ between clients and freelance linguists we are well placed…

The following is a blog written for us by Lily, a native Chinese , who is working with us as an intern over the next couple of months:   Recently, I was reading an article entitled “Overcoming the Golden Rule: Sympathy and Empathy” (MJ Bennett). It was quite amazing to…

A Freedom of Information request made by Police Review magazine unearthed that the police forces in Britain have spent £82million on translators and interpreters over the last 3 years. You may well be taken aback by this impressive amount, but let’s try to look at this rationally and put this…

I was recently handed a leaflet from a chateau somewhere in western France (I won’t name names), available to the public advertising their facilities and describing the beautiful and picturesque location. The French descriptions, coupled with the glossy photographs make for a quality leaflet, however look a little closer and…

The UK is wonderfully rich in accents, dialects and regional variations of ‘British English’. Almost every county in the UK has their own linguistic identity. To foreigners visiting the UK and even to other British people some accents can be very hard to digest. I’ve certainly had to ask someone…

On 5th July 2011 the Ministry of Justice announced that in order to make cuts in spending it had decided to contract to one single supplier for the provision of all translation and interpreting services. In essence this new Framework Agreement will mean that the well-established National Register for Public…