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Bilingual or multilingual speakers in the native English language speaking world are quite a rarity, in contrast to genuine bilingualism or multilingualism in many other places. Genuine bilingualism does not mean that someone has a reasonable smatter...

It only takes a pandemic to highlight the challenges and importance of medical translation. Never before in human history have so many medical professionals and biomedical researchers been involved so much in an international attempt to slow down and...

Translators, whether they are freelancers or work as part of a team in a translation agency, are often reluctant to ask their clients questions. Yet when questions are relevant and posed carefully they can lead to a better quality translation and sav...

The Covid-19 pandemic has been compared to the last really serious worldwide pandemic that led to 50 million deaths, that of Spanish flu, in 1918. The similarities include the fact that both diseases are caused by viruses which were new to humanity. ...

Global movement of people around the world may have taken a hit because of restrictions imposed on travel due to Covid-19, but this hasn’t really affected many businesses that are attempting to expand their sphere of operation overseas. Goods are s...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a medical emergency not seen in our lifetime. There have been other outbreaks of diseases which alarmed the world like HIV, SARS, MERS and Ebola but their spread has been a lot slower allowing the medical profession to learn...

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany, which is the federal agency responsible for health, has reported that the mortality rate from this rampant pandemic is a mere 2.5% throughout the country. 3,495 fatalities is a less significant figure out o...

How just a few weeks can change the world! The lightning and mostly exponential spread of the novel coronavirus, rather unromantically known as SARS-COV-2, has almost completely obliterated the worldwide tourism market and, unfortunately for translat...