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Uncover global languages with captivating interactive atlas

By admin | Published: 28 April 2011
Anyone who shares my fascination with language and uncovering the obscure will enjoy browsing the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. There are reckoned to be over 6,000 languages in the world with some half of those under threat of extinction this century. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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Are you au fait with ok?

By admin | Published: 18 February 2011
Many of us use it everyday. It’s widely understood around the world. But what does it mean and where does it come from? • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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101010: A Global Day of Doing

By admin | Published: 8 October 2010
This Sunday has been dubbed “A Global Day of Doing” by carbon reduction campaign 10:10. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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Foreign idioms: a fun look at the sayings of the world

By admin | Published: 21 August 2009
A fun new book out this summer takes a sideways look at the idioms and sayings of the world. “I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ear and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World” takes its title from a Russian saying which is broadly similar in meaning to the English phrase “I’m not pulling your [...]
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Strategy for surviving recession?

By admin | Published: 11 September 2008
It seems like every day there are new headlines of doom, gloom and forthcoming recession. Whilst the American recession has perhaps had less of an impact on the global economy than it would have done in the past, the overwhelming evidence of global recession casts a grey cloud over small businesses. Earlier this month, an [...]
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