Movies and series can be a great way to practice your language skills and to travel (at least virtually) to different countries. Provided...

Let’s get straight to the point: I cannot think of a single linguistic topic that is the object of more scorn and mocking than machine...

Why is there a fat Tuesday every year? Why do we sing “The First Noel” at Christmas time? And do people really celebrate being “intensely...

Following on from my own blog on subtitling, when I took a look back at my first steps into what is still a new skill for me, I decided...

Having recently gone back to freelancing, I took the opportunity to broaden my horizons and try my hand at other kinds of translation...

A dystopian classic, a black comedy on male delusions, a sweeping historical work of fiction set in post-war Japan and a spy novel that...

If translation is a form of art, as we often like to say here at Launch in Translation, then each language is the clay we mould to create...

As we have already discussed in a recent blog about transcreation, an essential component of localisation consists in adapting the...

When thinking of my origin story on how I became a translator, I find myself torn between two images, one of complete certainty about my...

Let’s face it: As linguists, our natural tendency is to translate at all cost. Beyond our mere inclination to protect our own language...

"Are you talkin’ to me?"... The question needs to be raised, for, ever since their transition from silent to “talkies”, movies have given...