We are super excited to present our upcoming medical coaching workshop! Due to the massive response and positive feedback to our previous medical workshop, more people are collaborating with us to offer their professional skills and talents! This time Lori Dowling and Lucia Franjo, both medical coaches, will be giving their invaluable insights into the…
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MEDICAL INTERPRETING ROLE PLAY 24TH SEPTEMBER 4PM CET
Dear fellow linguists and interpreters, You are cordially invited to secure your place at Say It Global Translations’ first online community event on September 24th at 4pm CEST (3pm BST). The event will look at the work of a medical interpreter (SP<>EN) in a role-play event between a doctor and patient, featuring esteemed Dr Richard Simons of the George Washington…
JOIN OUR COMMUNITY!
Language, Communities and Trivia – Part 2 Part 2 of our blog about language, communities and trivia looks at how different languages bring communities together, but also can find themselves under threat as a result. Numerous words, of course, are borrowed and absorbed from other languages into the native lexicon (and not just English), reflecting…
JOIN OUR COMMUNITY!
Language, Communities and Trivia – Part I Say It Global Translations is working hard to be a community of linguists, professionals, language students, experts and language lovers from all over the world, who can be part of a safe language community hub with access to talks, resources, learning tools, work projects and a “language lounge”,…
Cor blimey, guv! Take a butcher’s at this!
In the 1820s, when an official police force was first established in London by Robert Peel (Bobby is short for Robert – hence policemen became known as bobbies, as in the phrase “a bobby on the beat”), a secret localised collection of phrases was developed by London’s East Enders, where crime and mischief were…
OLD ENGLISH SAYINGS
Without knowing it, most people use many established sayings in their everyday chat without ever having considered the meaning or origin of such phrases. Many can be traced back in the mists of time to medieval England or to particular people or events. Their semantic journey may have altered the original definition, but language and…
Homophones – pitfalls, puns and problems!
A homophone sounds like an innocent linguistic term. Two words which sound the same, but have different meanings entirely. English natives are used to them. “Right” and “Write”. “Hear” and” Here”. “Rough” and “Ruff”. Why worry when it’s clear from the context which word is being used? But hang on. Is it so obvious? Could…
A New Model for Language Services
Our profit-for-purpose business model strives to foster a mutually supportive language community and a healthier working principle for business and people as a whole. The social side of the company not only underpins our commitment to supporting a specific disadvantaged group (the linguists’ community and other associations such as NGOs) but makes us transparent as…