French senior citizens link up with language students in lockdown theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…

A bit of Friday fun...Quiz: What do you know about languages? bing.com/search?q=Bing+…

We must protect interpreters who risk their lives to work for the British Army

Viral TikTok reveals Squid Game translation errors that completely change the show dexerto.com/entertainment/… via Dexerto

Lost in translation? What gets lost in that one-inch block of text theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Director of GCHQ Sir Jeremy Fleming explaining to Bernadette Holmes MBE and Chair of CIOL Qualifications that there are always jobs for Linguists at GCHQ! CIOL #professionallinguists #languageshow

Human Rights lawyer Debora Kayembe speaks French, 4 dialects of Swahili, Lingala, Kikongo, English, Portuguese and is learning Turkish (sorry if missed some). She needed multiple Swahili dialects to investigate war crimes in Eastern Congo CIOL Dr. Debora Kayembe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Language Show

Professor Antonella Sorace explaining how science shows that multilinguals have greater mental flexibility, better understanding of the perspectives of others and less emotional decision making. Antonella Sorace Language Show #languageshow

Couldn't agree more, a fascinating and varied discussion on the value of languages! #languageshow

Jocelyn Wyburd Jocelyn Wyburd, Director of the Language Centre at Cambridge and CIOL Qualifications CIOL board member, explaining how and why language students can position themselves as the Global Graduates that employers find so attractive! Language Show #languageshow

On CIOL’s new Recognition, Validation and Certification (RVC) scheme for language education, vocational learning and assessment programmes for linguists Translation Studies at Bristol @pathexams #languages #languageprofessionals #universalunderstanding #standards #rvc ciol.org.uk/stamp-quality-…

The incomparable Susie Dent closing her keynote speech at CIOL conference by giving her thoughts on swearing #ciolconf22

County Champions!!!

Thanks to Nicole of Trados for the presentation and for covering the questions from Chartered Institute of Linguists members #CIOLExperts22 #translators

I've written a blog for Chartered Institute of Linguists, CIOL Voices, on whether Machine Translation is replacing professional translators or if “Augmented Translation” is the future for the language profession. What do you think? ciol.org.uk/machine-transl… #machinetranslation #ciol #translation

What’s the point of studying languages if you then don’t use them? With thanks to CIOLQ’s Chair and Director of the Language Centre at Cambridge Jocelyn Wyburd and her work on “Global Graduates” for the inspiration, I've written a blog for Chartered Institute of Linguists ciol.org.uk/what%E2%80%99s…

The calm before the... APPG meeting on MT & public policy. Delighted to present with John Worne for Chartered Institute of Linguists CTS Surrey and @lnunesvieira on human-machine translation workflows, lessons for gov, with the case for greater public & public policy awareness clearly made.