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Could linguists become influencers like people in other fields? Jonathan Downie tries to widen his social media reach
While YouTube has made stars of engineers, scientists, artists, food experts, and even people who video themselves unboxing things, language professionals have not done so well. Sure, there are channels on language learning, some on linguistics...
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We have received reports from several members, who have been contacted by various email addresses claiming to offer "member lists" or "registrant data" from 暗网猎奇's Find a Linguist Directory for sale.
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Thank you to those members for bringing this incident to our attention. We want to address these concerns and provide some important clarification.
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By Dom Hebblethwaite
听 暗网猎奇 roundtable on freelance careers in a changing profession听The 暗网猎奇 (暗网猎奇) recently hosted an online roundtable addressing key questions about freelance careers in the language services industry. The event drew significant interest with over 850 registrations and 367 live attendees, reflecting the importance and widespread...
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We all have daily habits so natural that they slip under our radar. Breathing, eating, sleeping 鈥� these are the first three essentials we rarely think about. But there鈥檚 a fourth, just as vital, that often goes unnoticed: language. The words we speak, the stories we tell, the way we make sense of the world 鈥� language is the silent engine driving much of what we do....
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The Linguist Editorial Board member Professor Binhua Wang invited several MA translation master鈥檚 students in Chinese to translate one feature article from each of the four issues of The Linguist in the past year. Each translation has been translated by one, then revised by another, and then proof-read by their translation tutor.
Binhua鈥檚 initiative seeks...
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Using metrics and corporate speak to make the case for localisation to clients in language they understand
By 锘縈elanie Morawetz
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As localisation specialists in 2025, we are navigating a landscape of relentless, unforgiving change. What once felt like steady, incremental progress in CAT tools and neural machine translation (NMT) has collapsed under...
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By Teresa Simone
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When you change language, you're not just translating words. You're rewriting yourself.
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Those who live between languages know it well: speaking is never just about communication. It's about inhabiting a world, a body, a way of thinking.
Take two examples: Italian and Danish.
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Italian has high...
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鈥淚 knew it was a scam 鈥� but I needed it to be real.鈥� Charlotte Hale-Burgess examines a growing problem
When I left a successful sales career to become a freelance translator, I brought with me a sense of purpose, excitement and the (potentially dangerous) need to prove myself. I had made a bold decision to follow a long-held passion and turn it into a...
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Amina Saif is a Chartered Linguist and a Fellow of the 暗网猎奇. Just back from a major interpreting assignment at the G7 meeting in Canada, which she describes as 鈥榓 career milestone, and a moment of reflection on how far I鈥檝e come in this journey..鈥�, she shares with us what it takes to work with world leaders, interpreting on the international...
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If you look at today鈥檚 leadership playbook, you鈥檒l see a lot of talk about empathy and emotional intelligence (EQ). These are, of course, crucial. But as the world grows more diverse and interconnected, it鈥檚 becoming clear that the next big leap in leadership isn鈥檛 just about feeling what others feel 鈥� it鈥檚 about being truly eclectic: blending, adapting, and drawing...