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The eternal problem of the English language learner: British English or American English

Although there are numerous sites presenting differences between these two variants of the English language (I have also reviewed one of those websites here), there is a simple way to …

German to English and English to German dictionaries and glossaries / Multilingual dictionaries and glossaries / Training resources and materials for translators

From my list of favorite links: the Daimler Global Media Site

This website can be used as a terminology resource for automotive translations from German into English and English into German. My guess is that the materials are initially written into …

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Translator training webinars: “Understanding and Implementing Effective Translation Quality Evaluation Techniques” held by GALA

This is an interesting webinar on metrics that can be used for evaluating the quality of a translation, held by GALA (Globalization and Localization Association). The authors of the presentation …

German to English and English to German dictionaries and glossaries

From my list of favorite links: Fachwörterbuch Deutsch / Englisch from Industrie Schweiz

I don’t know when or how I found this online glossary with over 45,000 terms (I do my best to give credit to the blogs, websites or Twitter posts from …

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Book review: The Language Wars: A History of Proper English by Henry Hitchings

This book is one of my favorites when it comes to destroying myths about proper language. Hitchings reviews some of the most common beliefs on what proper language is and …

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From my list of favourite links: Basic Differences Between British and American English

Here is one more quality review of the basic differences between British and American English.

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Translator training: the “Use your language use your English” project

This project, developed by Department of European Cultures and Languages from Birkbeck was a great opportunity for me to test and train my translation skills and has helped me in …

Translator Careers

Interested in working as a translator for the EU? Here are some sample tests

The European Commission is one of the biggest employers of translators worldwide. The selection process involves the testing of general abilities such as verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning but also …

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The EU bookshop: resources for translators and other linguists

I found this great link on the WantWords blog and I would like to share it with my readers as well.   The terminology and linguistics section of the EU …

Training resources and materials for translators

OPTIMALE: Erasmus Network for Professional Translator Training

This article is about the OPTIMALE project because, even if the project ended in 2013, it has made available a series of resources that can be found on their website …

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  • The eternal problem of the English language learner: British English or American English
  • From my list of favorite links: the Daimler Global Media Site
  • Translator training webinars: “Understanding and Implementing Effective Translation Quality Evaluation Techniques” held by GALA
  • From my list of favorite links: Fachwörterbuch Deutsch / Englisch from Industrie Schweiz
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