9 intercultural love stories for language and movie lovers
Movies and series can be a great way to practice your language skills and to travel (at least virtually) to different countries. Provided...
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Rachel Zayer
- Oct 31, 2022
- 3 min
October in a linguistic (autumnal) nutshell
As October draws to a close, we thought it might be fun to share some October-related language facts. 1. Spring forward, fall back Did...
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Caterina Piagentini
- Jun 23, 2022
- 3 min
The Power of Doing Google Search Right, for Linguists
Not everyone working as a translator realises that in order to be a good translator, you also need to be a good (or perhaps even an...
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Rachel Zayer
- Apr 4, 2022
- 5 min
Banning ‘foreign’ words: a linguistic or political exercise in language preservation?
Oh, how I was amused when I stumbled across this post on social media: “Marine Le Pen”, announces the headline, “wants to ban foreign...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
- Feb 22, 2022
- 6 min
From Fat Tuesday to Shrove Tuesday: what’s behind the names of some famous celebrations?
Why is there a fat Tuesday every year? Why do we sing “The First Noel” at Christmas time? And do people really celebrate being “intensely...
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Rachel Zayer
- Feb 2, 2022
- 5 min
Place names: Echoes of our linguistic heritage. And why people think Carlisle is in Wales.
Evidence of multi-cultural communities of ‘Viking’ Cumbria can be seen in the place names reflecting the different languages that were...
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Rachel Zayer
- Nov 16, 2021
- 5 min
Calling yourself out on calling others
Ever accused someone of being deaf: “Are you deaf, or what?” Ever scoffed at someone for being “so lame”? How does it sound when put like...
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Paula Vara Moralejo
- Nov 4, 2021
- 8 min
Planning to raise your children bilingual? Decisions, concerns and plans
Language is identity, emotion and belonging. Teaching your child your native language in a context where there is another dominant...
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Rachel Zayer
- Sep 6, 2021
- 6 min
Emoji: global emerging language or global fad? 🤷♀️♀
I’ll let you in on a secret: I did actually just google how to add emojis to Word documents. I wasn’t even sure it was possible. But it...
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Paula Vara Moralejo
- Aug 23, 2021
- 4 min
A look at multilingual podcasts
If podcasts were a person, they’d definitely be the new cool nerd kid on the digital block. A kid with an insatiable curiosity for the...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
- Aug 5, 2021
- 6 min
Summer Reading List for Language Buffs
A dystopian classic, a black comedy on male delusions, a sweeping historical work of fiction set in post-war Japan and a spy novel that...
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Caterina Piagentini
- Jul 21, 2021
- 3 min
Learning the local language could change the way you travel the world
As a linguist, life-long language learner and travel enthusiast, one of the very first things I do whenever I plan to travel abroad is to...
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Marina Martinez
- Jul 6, 2021
- 4 min
Football, an international language within a thousand languages
Going home or going Rome... One year later than expected, the UEFA Euro 2020 has given us some epic games, ending with the great final(e)...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
- May 19, 2021
- 5 min
Set in their ways or progressive: How do languages move with the times?
If translation is a form of art, as we often like to say here at Launch in Translation, then each language is the clay we mould to create...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
- Sep 28, 2020
- 4 min
4 linguistic lessons we can learn from movies
"Are you talkin’ to me?"... The question needs to be raised, for, ever since their transition from silent to “talkies”, movies have given...
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