Teaching the language love
A number of recent articles in the UK and US press point to a lively interest in foreign language learning and teaching that isn’t necessarily
Words to Good Effect
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Love your job and tweet about it? Take part in our poll
One of the things I like about Twitter (and there are lots) is that nearly all the translators I follow there seem to love their
Book covers (2): an archive of book cover designs and designers…
…for the purpose of appreciation and categorisation. Or, if you like book covers, a website to get lost in: The Book Cover Archive. The beautifully designed
Book covers (1): transformed in translation
“Birdsong”, by Sebastian Faulks. UK version (left) and Chinese version (right) A recent Observer newspaper article warns us, Don’t judge a book by its cover,
Top 100 Language Blogs – voting now open
Voting is now open for the Top 100 Language Blogs 2010 competition organised by LexioPhiles, for which we’ve been nominated in the “Language Professionals” category. Voting
Four and twenty embedded tweets for much less than sixpence
A quick up-date to yesterday’s post comparing embedded tweet tools. Publitweet have now tweaked the code for their Blackbird bookmarklet to reduce font size a
Not a political blog – but tomorrow we vote
This isn’t a political blog but the following two articles are well-written and worth reading. Johann Hari (an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the
Embedding and emailing your tweets
It’s now possible to embed tweets directly into your blog using free tools such as Twitter Media’s Blackbird Pie, Publitweet’s Blackbird bookmarklet, or Tweetshots. I’ve
The “K” word on Twitter
One of the things I love about Twitter is the way it puts you in touch with interesting people you wouldn’t otherwise meet. It’s always
Serendipity and the scents of war
I wrote the other day about scent, as one of my favourite words (serendipity’s another). Scent isn’t a word you’d normally associate with the war