9/9/13 - surveillance
1. The act of observing or watching. 2. Secretive observation of a person or group, especially one suspected of wrong-doing.
View ArticleWord of the day: Braille
Louis Braille, a young French boy, was playing with a sharp awl in his father’s workshop when it slipped and wounded his eye. Infection spread to his other eye and at the age of 5 he was left...
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Guest Post: What's it like to go and study languages at university?
Today's article comes from Tom, who you guys will hopefully remember since he gave us an insider's perspective on the UK A-Level exams in German and French a few weeks ago. I love this article and what...
View ArticleWords in the News: Bungling
The Daily Mail leads on Prince Andrew's rage over bungling police who challenged him to identify himself in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Full story >> VOCABULARY If you bungle something, you...
View ArticleLearning Czech: mission impossible?
There is a legend spreading amongst Czechs. We commonly and proudly claim that no one can ever learn the Czech language properly. It goes along with a Czech-originated presumption that Czech belongs to...
View ArticleNaučit se česky – mise nemožná?
V české kotlině koluje mnoho legend, mimojiné i o českém jazyku. My, Češi, s hrdostí tvrdíme, že se nikdo nemůže naučit pořádně česky. Vyplývá to z našeho předpokladu, že čeština patří...
View ArticleCartoon: Palace Raid Sparks New Security Review
BACKGROUND Security is being reviewed at Buckingham Palace after last Monday's suspected break-in, in which an intruder was able to scale a fence and get inside the palace. Police said a man was...
View ArticleReuters Video: Tony Abbott sweeps into power in Australian elections
Conservative leader Tony Abbott wins a landslide election victory in Australia's federal election, defeating the Labor party for the first time in six years. Sarah Toms reports. TRANSCRIPT REPORTER:...
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Make terminology decisions with Googlefight
Every medical translator has experienced this: you are working on a translation, and you're not completely sure about which term or expression to use. So you turn to Google to see which variant gets...
View ArticleAN AMUSING ANNOTATION.
I'm reading Сердце и думка [Heart and head], an 1838 novel by Veltman (and one of the young Dostoevsky's two favorites, the other being Narezhny's Бурсак—see this LH post), and I've just gotten to a...
View ArticleQuando Usar MISS ou LOSE?
Em inglês, o verbo perder pode ser expresso com as palavras MISS ou LOSE. Isso geralmente causa uma grande confusão na cabeça de muitos estudantes. As perguntas mais frequentes são: Quando usar MISS ou...
View ArticleWord roots and routes: root
This is the first of a series of posts in which I will explore some of the ‘roots‘ and ‘routes‘ of English vocabulary. By ‘roots’, I mean the basic elements that embody the meanings of words. This use...
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Word roots and routes: root
This is the first of a series of posts in which I will explore some of the ‘roots‘ and ‘routes‘ of English vocabulary. By ‘roots’, I mean the basic elements that embody the meanings of words. This use...
View ArticleAre Sanskrit and Chinese "congenial languages"?
At an international conference on "Sinologists as Translators in the 17th-19th Centuries: Archives and Context" organized by the Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia of the...
View ArticleWord of the Week: BYOD
BYOD: Initialism for Bring Your Own Device, a corporate policy that encourages or requires employees to bring their own mobile devices to the workplace and to use them to access company information....
View ArticleEnglish-Learner Research: Ed. Dept. Looking for Guidance
The U.S. Department of Education is asking researchers and the public to provide feedback on what research priorities to should focus on for English-language learners.
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Fiction for children - News24
Fiction for childrenNews24It is for this reason that many readers would simply skip over the linguistic relevance of the sentence to convey a moral message on the condition of reading as well as the...
View ArticleExpect Labs' Simon Handley on Deep Learning
Listen to Expect Labs’ Research Engineer, Simon Handley, explain a few recent innovations in...
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A Spanish-Language Indie Sustains Its Box Office Pizazz - Businessweek
A Spanish-Language Indie Sustains Its Box Office PizazzBusinessweekPerhaps it was a post-Labor Day slump or the continuing fallout from apocalypse fatigue, but this past weekend delivered the weakest...
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Language barriers complicate life at 'failing' Buffalo high school - Buffalo...
Language barriers complicate life at 'failing' Buffalo high schoolBuffalo News“Everybody spoke English, and I didn't know that much. It's hard because everyone looks at you like, 'What are you saying?'...
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