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We are all aware that language is not only essential to specialised disciplines such as linguistics and translation but is, in all its forms, at the core of human experience and civilisation. It is such an integral, natural part of our cultures and social lives that it may be worth stopping for a minute, not […]
Relationship Between Language and Thought Read More »
The world we live in is getting somewhat smaller globally. As a result, culturally mixed families are increasingly common, as well as people starting a family abroad. This trend implies that many children are being raised as bilinguals or even tri-linguals sometimes! It is estimated that there are as many bilingual children as monolingual ones
Raising Bilingual Children Read More »
Music is very complex. It conveys emotion, it is used to communicate an idea, and it follows many rules. It often takes a musician four or five years before they actually fully grasp their instrument; it could be ten or fifteen before they master them. If you think that this sounds familiar, then you are
Language and Music: One of the same? Read More »
Language has always been a very powerful tool to exert influence, strength, power. It is important to perform many activities and it is certainly crucial to politics: no political activity can be performed without language. Since today we talk about global politics, mainly conducted at a supranational level, and therefore in multicultural and multilingual contexts,
Translation, Politics and Power Read More »
Nowadays in order to survive and thrive in a global economy, many companies have realised the need to explore markets for its products and services. Reaching an international audience faces several challenges, including effective communication of your products and services in a foreign language. Being able to adapt your products in the
Engage international audience for your business in 5 steps Read More »
Every one of us has probably experienced at least once this mixed feeling of loss and frustration over the inability to articulate or find the exact word that conveys how we feel. This very feeling that I have just tried to describe, which has no particular name in English, perfectly illustrates the subject of this
Untranslated feelings Read More »
Learning a new language means learning a new culture. If you want to approach a culture which is very different from your own, learning eastern languages is one of the best ways to do it. In this article, I will focus on four reasons why you should study Russian. Visiting Russia, from Moscow to
Four reasons why you should learn Russian! Read More »
After audiences growing tired of the well-known formula of James Bond films and the slow decay of the action genre into a never-ending repetition of cliches invented in the 80s and 90s, “The Bourne Identity” kicked off a series, which raised the bar in many ways. It was praised for its exceptional story writing, gritty
7 Reasons How Languages Make Jason Bourne Cool Read More »
Everybody has had a dream job. It’s the job which you talked about when as a child people kept asking you “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, the career in which you think you would break through once that all your desires have been accomplished. We all knew some children who
Does knowing another language make you a translator? Read More »
Verbal and nonverbal communication. Do we need both? Have you ever come across a saying of an ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle “Man is by nature a social animal”? Don’t take him wrong, he didn’t mean to offend human beings comparing us to animals. Quite on the contrary, Aristotle spotted in human nature something that
Do all people smile in the same language? Read More »
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