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Apr3Thu12:00 Freelancer frustrations: bad pay...Freelancer frustrations: bad pay...Apr 3 @ 12:00 – 13:00Chartered Institute of Linguists webinars If you’ve ever faced the frustration of delayed or unpaid invoices, you’re not alone. Late payments and financial disputes are common struggles for freelancers, but are they the result of bad clients or inefficient processes? … Continue readingApr29Tue19:00 Inteligencia artificial y enseña...Inteligencia artificial y enseña...Apr 29 @ 19:00 – 19:45
Conversación entre María García y Gemma Delgar en español. Forma parte del ciclo de conversaciones en abierto Cápsulas de traducción (con inscripción previa). Cápsulas de traducción es un ciclo de conversaciones en línea entre especialistas de prestigio, procedentes de diversos ámbitos de … Continue readingMay22Thu12:00 Interpreting at prison visitsInterpreting at prison visitsMay 22 @ 12:00 – 13:00Chartered Institute of Linguists webinars Join lawyer-linguist Sue Leschen FCIL CL as she draws on 22 years of expertise to guide interpreters through the unique challenges of prison visits. From high-security prisons and mental health institutions to young offender facilities, … Continue reading -
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Category Archives: Fun
How climate change is impacting language globally
Are you currently experiencing solastalgia and perhaps a little morbique? It would be more than understandable if you are, even if you may be perplexed by the vocabulary that is currently emerging in relation to climate change. Solastalgia is a … Continue reading
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Microrrelatos curso 2021/2022
Este semestre, en el Grado en Traducción, Interpretación y Lenguas Aplicadas, una de las tareas propuestas en la asignatura Lengua A IV (Español) ha sido la creación de un microrrelato a partir de una serie de títulos sugeridos por las … Continue reading
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Is language in decline?
Recently a student told me that he did not know the expressions agua de borrajas and vísteme despacio, que tengo prisa. Or maybe he had heard them but didn’t know what they meant. He went on to say that “desgraciadamente … Continue reading
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NFT, vax, perseverance, strollout, vaccine
What do these words have in common? They are the English words of the year 2021, as chosen by lexicographers and users of various eminent anglosphere dictionaries. NFT NFT is the Collins Dictionary word of the year 2021. NFT, the … Continue reading
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Métissage
Use of indigenous words rather than foreign loanwords, or vice versa, is a matter of personal preference. Both may have their attractions. The use of “hoard” rather than “collection”, or “make it up” rather than “invent”, reaffirms the writer’s Anglo-Germanic … Continue reading
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