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By Adriana Nesheva
How to fashion the perfect text when translating product descriptions for clothing brands
Product descriptions are a crucial component of fashion brands. While some may consider them boring or unnecessary, they can play a significant role in the purchasing decisions of consumers. When selecting apparel, many want to know more about the...
Thanks to tireless work by Baroness Coussins (pictured above), UK Government has accepted amendments to the proposed ‘Victims’ Code’ intended to set out and protect the rights of victims of crime.
Baroness Brinton said:
“My Lords, from these Benches we pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for her absolute and consistent determination that we...
The British-German Association (BGA), a long-established UK-registered educational charity, seeks a new Trustee to head the Youthbridge work promoting German in secondary schools.
Central to the work of the British-German Association is the promotion of German-language teaching in British secondary schools, particularly in the state sector. We describe this as our...
By Jonathan Downie
As remote interpreting platforms start to offer AI services, Jonathan Downie outlines how interpreters might respond
Conference interpreting was in shock. At the start of 2023, KUDO, a leading remote interpreting platform, announced that they had launched “the World’s first fully integrated artificial intelligence speech translator”. Many...
By Sarah Cutts MCIL
Having previously worked in-house for ten years, and in my own freelance business for seven years, I have provided many certified translations from Spanish and French into English and have helped clients in various situations.
I mainly work with private individuals, who sometimes have no idea what they need in terms of certification. Obviously,...
By Professor Michael Kelly OBE, recipient of the David Crystal Award 2024
I fell in love with languages at the age of 11, in my first year at the Hull Grammar School, when I started to learn French and Latin. I was amazed that you could talk about things in such different ways. I soon realised that a door had opened into new worlds that I had never suspected. It...
By Una Dimitrijevic
Even if machines one day become perfect at interpreting our words correctly, I’m not sure they’ll ever be able to do the following things that are always required of us as interpreters:
The Council of Europe recently advertised on the CIOL website for an English Language Checker to check legal texts and ensure they are clear and comprehensible. The job was located in Strasbourg, France.
By Antonica-Roxana Clinciu
As a recent graduate in English Language and Literature, with a fluency in English and a native command of Romanian, I find myself standing at the threshold of a vast linguistic landscape, eager to immerse myself in the art of interpretation and translation. It's not merely a career path I'm drawn to, but rather a calling rooted in a...
By Debbie Butler
As we celebrate International Women's Day, as a longstanding member of the CIOL team, a member of the CIOL Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee and as a linguist (German) myself, I feel it is well worth recognising the remarkable contributions of female linguists, interpreters and translators as we celebrate International Women’s Day. Many women...