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...
We continue to receive reports from members who have been contacted by various email addresses with spam and scam content. Thank you to those members for bringing these incidents to our attention. We wanted to share them in case of help or use to other members.
Recent Spam and Scam emails for Info Examples of emails received by MembersFrom: Translation...
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...
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