How big is your goal? What’s your timespan? Who’s keeping you accountable? You’re wondering which goal I’m referring to, aren’t you? Well… that of learning a new language, of course! As the founder of an English editing company, I get asked the same question repeatedly: “How can I improve » Read More
The first Roman emperor famously said: “When you gain a new language, you gain a new soul.” I am not sure that I’ve gained a new soul after having learned English but I’ve gained a good ‘rice bowl’ – something which allows me to make a living. “Why do you » Read More
Do you struggle to understand Latin abbreviations? Maybe you hadn’t even realised they came from Latin. Nowadays there are only a handful of Latin abbreviations that are used regularly in English. In less than 5 minutes you can have them all at your fingertips. A quick reminder » Read More
We talk to French journalist and author Anne Garrigue about the rather entrepreneurial way she launched her latest non-fiction book. As contributors to the project – we translated it from French into English and did all the proofreading work – we’ve taken great pleasure in stepping into the » Read More
I believe that our brains are so clever that when we want to express something our word retrieval system pulls out the ‘right’ word from our memory banks. Only, sometimes that word is in the wrong language, meaning not the language in which we are conversing. I don’t » Read More