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February 19, 2020 9:00 amOur very talented colleague Tamás Schlemmer, translator in the Hungarian Translation Unit of the European Parliament, has developed some very... View Article
Linguistic Identity and Language Portrait
February 4, 2020 9:15 amThere are different kinds of identities, social identities, national identities, racial identities, ethnic identities, etc. A notion, which is however... View Article
Formatting new terms
December 2, 2019 9:15 amIn this article, we focus on creation of new words – neologism. Why a new word is created? How a... View Article
Differences between Eurish, Globish and “natural” English
November 18, 2019 11:42 amThe author of the following article, Hannah Critoph, is translator at the English Language Services of the European Court of... View Article
Video-Fix: How to Tell Accents Apart
October 27, 2019 9:30 amThis week’s Video-Fix is on accents and how to tell them apart. Dialect coach Erik Singer shows us the delicate... View Article
The Status of English in the EU
October 9, 2019 10:29 amEnglish is the most widely spoken foreign language in the European Union (EU). It therefore serves as the working language... View Article
Self-Similarity in Texts: Fabulous Contributions to Computational Narratology
October 7, 2019 2:31 pmAfter some time spent to introduce theses of other fellow graduates and researchers, the moment is finally arrived for me... View Article
Scottish Gaelic
September 30, 2019 11:00 amScottish Gaelic or Gàidhlig is spoken in Scotland (Alba), mainly in the Highlands (a’ Ghaidhealtachd) and in the Western... View Article
Irish Gaelic
September 23, 2019 11:00 amIrish Gaelic or Gaeilge is a Celtic language, just like Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), Manx Gaelic (Gaelg/Gailck), Welsh (Cymraeg), Breton (Brezhoneg)... View Article
Video-Fix: Shibboleth! Show me how you say it and I will tell you who you are
September 22, 2019 10:24 amThe Shibboleth [/ˈʃɪbəˌlɛθ/] is “a word containing one or more sounds difficult to be pronounced from a non native... View Article
