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International Translation Day

  • Submitted: 30th September 2016

International Translation Day is the annual event for the translation community. Today the event is being marked with a day long conference of events in…

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Learning Swedish with Pippi Longstocking

  • Submitted: 1st July 2012

Now some people may laugh, but I have a very particular way of teaching myself a language and that is to read children’s books. Not…

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Travelling with Dan Brown

  • Submitted: 21st June 2012

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was very popular when it was first released in 2004 and long after.However it was also widely criticised,…

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Learning Spanish with Gabriel García Márquez

  • Submitted: 12th April 2012

  I like to think that Gabriel García Márquez was my Spanish teacher. He was in many ways and it's from his pen that I…

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Spanish with Cuentos de la Alhambra

  • Submitted: 14th March 2012

There is a book which took the language learning experience following the French learning thanks to Phileas Fogg to another level... If like Phileas Fogg,…

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