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No substitute for professional translation!

By admin | Published: 14 August 2009
Thanks to one of our readers for pointing out this news story about York council coming under fire for relying on online machine translation. There’s a couple of funny examples but there is also an underlying serious point. If you want to communicate details and nuances of your services in a foreign language, the often [...]
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More into Chinese language

By admin | Published: 9 December 2008
There is mixed news in a new report on languages in secondary schools from the National Centre for Languages (CiLT). They looked at a sample of schools across the UK in a survey they have carried out each year since 2002. First the good news. State schools in the UK are starting to offer a [...]
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