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ITI and CIOL have written to The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, the UK's Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero as below:
Europe Economics Report on Impact of Growth of Data Centres on Energy Consumption – Translation case study
FAO The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
We learned this week, courtesy of a...
By Mark Robinson
On a recent visit to Volterra in Tuscany, I took time to explore the Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, one of Italy’s oldest museums and a treasure house of Etruscan artefacts. Among the urns, sculptures, and delicate jewellery, one fact stood out: the Etruscan alphabet - adapted from the Greeks - was the very script that later formed the basis...
By Pham Hoa Hiep
The full version of this article was published in MultiLingual magazine's September 2025 issue.
Recently, my sister called from Australia, worried about my job as a freelance translator now that AI is everywhere. “If work has become scarce, maybe it’s time to go back to teaching,” she suggested.
She’s not...
Why each language version tells a different story, and the power dynamics behind the platform. By Guilherme Fians
Few would disagree that the airplane is one of the great marvels of modern engineering – and we could confidently call that a consensus. But consult Wikipedia about who invented it and the answer depends on the language you read. On the English-...
GCHQ National Language Competition November 2025
Calling all UK secondary schools!
CIOL is pleased to help GCHQ spread the word about their online National Language Competition in November this year for Year 9 (England and Wales) / S2 (Scotland) / Year 10 (N Ireland) pupils across the country. (Teachers in Scotland: please note the change from S3...
by Dr Eyhab Abdulrazak Bader Eddin
A trilingual realm unfolds
Imagine walking into a 13th-century English courtroom. The judge addresses the court in French, the clerk scribbles notes in Latin, and the plaintiffs mutter to each other in English.
This vivid scene captures the reality of post-Norman Conquest England, where three tongues coexisted in a...
This is the final post in a series of three follow-up posts to the CIOL roundtable Freelance linguists: navigating careers in a changing profession featuring Ilenia Goffredo, Karine Chevalier-Watts and Ibrahim Kadouni. It explores and expands on the panellists’ ideas and contributions. Watch the full roundtable video here.
Building windmills
‘There are two...
This is post two in a series of three follow-up posts to the CIOL roundtable Freelance linguists: navigating careers in a changing profession featuring Ilenia Goffredo, Karine Chevalier-Watts and Ibrahim Kadouni. It explores and expands on the panellists’ ideas and contributions. Watch the full roundtable video here.
What is happening?
‘We feel a little bit...
An academic and personal reflection on ‘language attrition’
by Dr Pier Pischedda, MCIL Chartered Linguist
Losing touch with your mother tongue
As much as we can learn a language, we can also lose it. This is a familiar topic in linguistics, and as linguists, we often discuss how maintaining a second language requires constant study and active use,...