9 intercultural love stories for language and movie lovers
Movies and series can be a great way to practice your language skills and to travel (at least virtually) to different countries. Provided...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
May 20, 20224 min read
The Pros and Cons of Machine Translation
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...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
Feb 22, 20226 min read
From Fat Tuesday to Shrove Tuesday: what’s behind the names of some famous celebrations?
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...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
Dec 20, 20214 min read
Interview with an experienced subtitler
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...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
Oct 11, 20216 min read
Delving into the translation sub-genre of subtitling
Having recently gone back to freelancing, I took the opportunity to broaden my horizons and try my hand at other kinds of translation...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
Aug 5, 20216 min read
Summer Reading List for Language Buffs
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...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
May 19, 20215 min read
Set in their ways or progressive: How do languages move with the times?
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...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
Mar 3, 20215 min read
How to translate local content for your native audience?
As we have already discussed in a recent blog about transcreation, an essential component of localisation consists in adapting the...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
Jan 22, 20214 min read
The Story behind the Lucky Translator
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...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
Nov 25, 20204 min read
To translate or not to translate, that is the question...
Let’s face it: As linguists, our natural tendency is to translate at all cost. Beyond our mere inclination to protect our own language...
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Anne-Lise Vassoille
Sep 28, 20204 min read
4 linguistic lessons we can learn from movies
"Are you talkin’ to me?"... The question needs to be raised, for, ever since their transition from silent to “talkies”, movies have given...
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