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Sana Ullah Khokhar MCIL is director of Urdu Language Services, an agency providing a wide range of linguistic services, and an interpreter and translator working with Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and English.
On 8 November 2017, Ann Carlisle CEO and Jane Galbraith, Head of Membership, commenced a two-week, two-centre visit to Hong Kong and Shanghai, which focused on three key areas:
Eneida Garcia Villanueva investigates how Scotland’s 1+2 policy of teaching two foreign languages is working five years in
In May 2017, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, announced that he would speak French at a conference because, after Brexit, “slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe”. As premature statements go, that must...
Rosa-Maria Cives-Enriquez explains why she puts story-telling at the centre of her language classroom
Are foreign visitors missing out at popular attractions? Chloe Paver and Matthew Philpotts ask whether translated materials in German museums could do better
On Tuesday 7 November the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) and its awarding body the IoL Educational Trust (IoLET) held their annual Awards Evening at the Law Society, London, in the presence of CIOL’s Royal Patron HRH Prince Michael of...
Do you have the skills and competencies to join CIOL Council, CIOL’s governing body? The call for nominations is now open and CIOL members in the grades of Associate, Member and Fellow are invited to stand for nomination or nominate a fellow...
How translators deal with their emotions can mean the difference between job satisfaction and burnout, but can emotion management be learnt, asks Séverine Hubscher-Davidson
Published in The Linguist, 56/5 October/November 2017...
Janice Carruthers considers the impact of an unprecedented £16m languages research programme, launched last year
First published in The Linguist 56/4