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Zoe Moores, David Orrego-Carmona, Pia Ghosh, Tom Bartindale, Delvin Varghese and Margherita Angelucci:
The Action Translate Team, based at the Universities of Warwick, Northumbria and Monash
What is Action Translate?
Action Translate is an all-in-one team, initiative and crowdsourcing platform that supports volunteer translation initiatives....
My journey and learning method
by Giulia Bonanzinga
Learning a new language as an adult is both exciting and daunting. On one hand, there is the dream of opening doors to travel, study or career opportunities. On the other, daily life is already full, and the thought of adding hours of grammar drills or endless vocabulary lists can feel...
By Cat Burns
It is no secret that the role of translators is evolving, and quickly. Linguists have always needed to be agile and adaptable, but in a world increasingly influenced by machine translation and artificial intelligence, apprehension about the impacts of automation on the profession has grown. As a vendor manager at an LSP, I’ve witnessed this ...
The results, along with some detailed and very thoughtful comments, provide a candid snapshot of our community's relationship with digital...
By John Worne CIOL CEO
I attended a really upbeat event with Duolingo last week focusing on what we can do to promote language learning in the UK.
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-...