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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...

Anne-Lise Vassoille
Dec 8, 20225 min read
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October in a linguistic (autumnal) nutshell
As October draws to a close, we thought it might be fun to share some October-related language facts. 1. Spring forward, fall back Did...

Rachel Zayer
Oct 31, 20223 min read
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Banning ‘foreign’ words: a linguistic or political exercise in language preservation?
Oh, how I was amused when I stumbled across this post on social media: “Marine Le Pen”, announces the headline, “wants to ban foreign...

Rachel Zayer
Apr 4, 20225 min read
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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...

Anne-Lise Vassoille
Feb 22, 20226 min read
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Place names: Echoes of our linguistic heritage. And why people think Carlisle is in Wales.
Evidence of multi-cultural communities of ‘Viking’ Cumbria can be seen in the place names reflecting the different languages that were...

Rachel Zayer
Feb 2, 20225 min read
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Calling yourself out on calling others
Ever accused someone of being deaf: “Are you deaf, or what?” Ever scoffed at someone for being “so lame”? How does it sound when put like...

Rachel Zayer
Nov 16, 20215 min read
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Planning to raise your children bilingual? Decisions, concerns and plans
Language is identity, emotion and belonging. Teaching your child your native language in a context where there is another dominant...

Paula Vara Moralejo
Nov 4, 20218 min read
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Localising animation movies for a worldwide audience
We can all agree that there are some things in life that can be enjoyed by all ages, and animation movies are definitely one of them....

Caterina Piagentini
Oct 1, 20214 min read
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Emoji: global emerging language or global fad? 🤷♀️♀
I’ll let you in on a secret: I did actually just google how to add emojis to Word documents. I wasn’t even sure it was possible. But it...

Rachel Zayer
Sep 6, 20216 min read
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A look at multilingual podcasts
If podcasts were a person, they’d definitely be the new cool nerd kid on the digital block. A kid with an insatiable curiosity for the...

Paula Vara Moralejo
Aug 23, 20214 min read
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Learning the local language could change the way you travel the world
As a linguist, life-long language learner and travel enthusiast, one of the very first things I do whenever I plan to travel abroad is to...

Caterina Piagentini
Jul 21, 20213 min read
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Football, an international language within a thousand languages
Going home or going Rome... One year later than expected, the UEFA Euro 2020 has given us some epic games, ending with the great final(e)...

Marina Martinez
Jul 6, 20214 min read
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Rhyme, rhythm and reason: Translating children’s verse
It was on a recent walk with my daughter that the idea for this blog came about. She was picking the petals off a daisy, one by one, and...

Rachel Zayer
Jun 24, 20215 min read
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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...

Anne-Lise Vassoille
May 19, 20215 min read
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How to nail your client’s tone of voice
Achieving the right tone of voice when translating or transcreating marketing materials for a brand is essential, yet tricky. Whether a...

Paula Vara Moralejo
Apr 16, 20214 min read
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The creativity backstage: Brilliant translations of film titles that differ from the originals
Having two hands does not make you a pianist and knowing two languages does not make you a translator. But to be a translator, you need...

Marina Martinez
Mar 30, 20214 min read
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Colourful Language and the Art of Translation
If there’s one word that springs to mind when I think about the definition of “language”, it’s that language is “colourful”. And I don’t...

Rachel Zayer
Mar 11, 20214 min read
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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...

Anne-Lise Vassoille
Mar 3, 20215 min read
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The Power of Transcreation
As you may already know, translating consists of reading and understanding a text in a foreign language to, later, generate a text with...

Marina Martinez
Feb 11, 20213 min read
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Translating content for social media: The importance of social media localisation
More and more businesses are turning to social media channels to establish their brands. From the well-known Instagram, Twitter and...

Caterina Piagentini
Dec 4, 20202 min read
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