Machine Translation - An Opinion

Rusty Translation

Following on from the post about online dictionaries, I thought that I would pay a little attention to another resource that language learners, at some point or another, likely have come across and used: the internet machine translator. The most well known online, at least to me, are probably those offered by Google, [...]

Talking Hands

Perfetto!

Italy is a country with a strong visual culture. How things look is a crucial component of the fabric of cultural identity. You can see it in every city, from the architecture right down to a person’s outfit. So, when it comes to language, it has to be mentioned that Italians don’t just speak [...]

Audiovisual Resource for Learning French

French Resource

This week, I came across quite a gem of a website: Ina, or L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel. It’s the national French archive for all of France’s television and radio archives. The vast majority of the content is freely available, the website is easy to navigate and there is lots of material on all [...]

Online Dictionaries for Language Learners

Word Search

Online dictionaries are excellent resources for language learners: you can get quick and easy access to a whole world of words, even during a lesson, without having to flick through a giant paper dictionary. Even more useful, the internet is a much better medium for keeping up to date with modern language, with [...]

Found In Translation

Found In Translation

For those of you considering learning a language to help you with your careers, I want to bring to your attention one of the most exciting and diverse professions you can have in the modern world: being a translator. Translation is one of those strange jobs: something really essential, especially in today’s [...]