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By Tim F Nash
CIOL Linguists' Voices
Linguists are living through a period of profound change. Advances in technology and AI, shifting market demands, new ways of working and downward pressure on remuneration are reshaping the work of linguists.
Industry consolidation and outsourcing of contracts, combined with cuts in languages education and research, and changing public...
By Danielle Boaler
I have recently completed my tenth year as an MFL teacher in the UK and this year I covered the Head of Spanish role while my colleague was on maternity leave. I have always found languages a tricky subject to win students over on. ‘Why bother learning another language if everybody else speaks English?’ As a nation, we need...
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CIOL Council Member Emma Gledhill reflects on thirty years in the languages profession which, as she says, “teaches you a few things.” One is that whenever translation is reported to be on life support, it's actually just changing. And you can change with it.
Jobs are Changing, Not Disappearing
Over the last thirty years, the profession has seen three major...
By Dr Eyhab Abdulrazak Bader Eddin
Can one little word make ‘love’ into a dirty word? Is it possible to show intimacy towards someone in one moment and contempt in the next by calling them “thou”? Does adding Sir to the beginning of Master indicate ignorance, question someone’s social standing, or cause offence? Why should Your Grace be appropriate...
What is Women in Translation Month?
Each August, Women in Translation Month highlights books written by women in languages other than English and draws attention to the role translation plays in connecting readers with voices from around the world.
Established in 2014 by Meytal Radzinski, the initiative was launched to increase awareness of the...
Left to right: Jhumpa Lahiri, Octavio Paz, Rabindranath Tagore
‘Bad English’ in self-translation isn’t always a bad thing, says Ursula Deser Friedman. It can be an act of revolution
In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) became the first Asian Nobel Laureate for his poetry collection Gitanjali: Song offerings, which he had translated from Bengali into...
By Emily Boaler
There can come a time as a linguist, when we start to feel a bit stuck in our work, especially when we find ourselves in a role or sector that no longer fulfils our purpose or needs. However, renewed purpose may lie within a sector where we have little or no experience – a leap into the unknown for sure, but with languages as our super-power it...
The new Chair of the UK Parliament’s languages group on how judgements over his Geordie roots, a year abroad in post-Pinochet Chile and a love of language learning contributed to his political awakening and dedication to sociolinguistics
So, Darren, what made you want to join the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages (APPG ML)?I was first elected as...