Translation Thursday – Russian reads
Discover contemporary Russian fiction at the British Library tonight Boris Akunin, Alisa Ganieva, Andrey Kurkov and Zinovy Zinik are going to be at the British Library…
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International Translation Day
International Translation Day is the annual event for the translation community. Today the event is being marked with a day long conference of events in…
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Learning Swedish with Pippi Longstocking
Now some people may laugh, but I have a very particular way of teaching myself a language and that is to read children’s books. Not…
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Travelling with Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was very popular when it was first released in 2004 and long after.However it was also widely criticised,…
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Learning Spanish with Gabriel García Márquez
I like to think that Gabriel García Márquez was my Spanish teacher. He was in many ways and it's from his pen that I…
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