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Chartered Linguist and Linguist Editorial Board member, Bokani Hart, wrote recently on medium.com on the ethics of translation, neutrality and engendering positive social change. Medium also hosts Global Literary Theory which Bokani recommends for more resources. An extract from her article is below, to read the full article click here.

 

In ‘Ethics’,...

Published on Tuesday, 22 April 2025 - 11:26am
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By Chris Hughes

 

Very often, when we're asked to promote the learning of languages in school, the focus is on how languages benefit your career. And that's admirable and valid, of course. But learning another language is about so much more than that. There's a human side to learning languages that opens up full, genuine experiences, and brings benefits and...

Published on Thursday, 17 April 2025 - 12:09pm
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By Dom Hebblethwaite, CIOL Head of Membership

 

The 2025 Chartered Institute of Linguists conference season in March brought together hundreds of language professionals for what I found a series of really energising and enriching events. With the in-person Translators Day and Interpreters Day held at the impressive Convene venue at 22 Bishopsgate (...

Published on Tuesday, 15 April 2025 - 10:10am
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Keep learning everyone!

 

By Mark Robinson

 

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an important subject for professional linguists – and rightly so. For translators, interpreters, project managers – and indeed for many other roles, some of which are evolving in the profession – it matters. CPD ensures that linguists maintain and enhance their languages...

Published on Tuesday, 8 April 2025 - 11:43am
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Recent CIOL Voice’s contributor John Claughton, who is former chief master of King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and co-founder of WoLLoW (World of Languages, Languages of the World) has written a powerful article in the TES Magazine. Some of his key points are here:

 

Languages are squeezed out in UK schools

In a land dominated by literacy and...

Published on Saturday, 29 March 2025 - 2:16pm
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Published on Sunday, 23 March 2025 - 3:38pm
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What do the professionals say?
 

by Andreja Milošević MCIL, translator and interpreter, seen here with display cabinet showing traditional Serbian artefacts produced by vulnerable groups

 

The foregoing text follows up a brief retrospect on implementation of gender sensitivity in the Serbian language which was posted on CIOL Voices in November 2024. It...

Published on Sunday, 23 March 2025 - 10:42am
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By Dom Hebblethwaite, CIOL Head of Membership

 

The role of generative AI (ChatGPT and other LLMs) in professional translation and language services remains controversial, especially when it is used alongside Machine Translation in ways that potentially impact translation quality, linguists' earnings, and professional satisfaction.

 

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Published on Monday, 10 March 2025 - 9:37am
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Mark Robinson CL, CIOL Council Member and director of translation company Alexika Ltd writes on using the internet to improve your language skills.
 

Published on Tuesday, 18 February 2025 - 12:02pm
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Perspectives from an end-user, researcher and trainer

By Martín Chamorro


Scope and some context

It may prove useful to note that my area of practice is technical translation of informative texts with the English-Spanish language combination, which can be considered a language pair with plenty of resource availability when it comes to large language model (LLM)...

Published on Wednesday, 12 February 2025 - 10:54am
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