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Patent Translation Q&A

by Intern | Mar 3, 2021

I am Carys and I am currently completing an internship with the team at Patent Translations International (PTI). As part of the internship, I interviewed two of my colleagues – Charlie and Madeleine – about the work they do in translating patents and managing a patent...

Protecting Multiculturalism & Celebrating International Mother Language Day

by Robin Bennett | Feb 19, 2021

This year’s International Mother Language Day will be held on Sunday 21st February. First celebrated in 2000, this internationally recognised UNESCO event aims to celebrate and protect all of the world’s languages. Recognising the benefits that languages and...

Best Language Apps 2020

by Robin Bennett | Sep 14, 2020

Here is a list of our favourite language apps in 2020 (feel free to suggest any you love): Grammarly (Chrome extension or keyboard addition) – Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant which checks your spelling and grammar across documents, emails and social...

Giulia’s UK Translation Internship Experience During Covid-19

by Intern | Aug 4, 2020

Hi, I'm Giulia and I recently completed my internship at Aktuel Translations. You already heard from another intern's struggles with Covid-19, and I'm here to give you a slightly different perspective, as our experiences had one major difference: I never got the...

Mild Fantasy & Children’s Literature

by Robin Bennett | Jun 30, 2020

Stories that politely pretend that everything is perfectly normal when it’s clearly not. In 2015, I spent an enjoyable summer with an excellent production company (Warpline Films), quietly pottering about the British Isles making a documentary on British Fantasy -...

Christina’s Internship Experience During Covid-19

by Intern | Jun 30, 2020

Hi, my name is Christina and I am currently an intern at Aktuel Translations. This blog entry will be about my experiences as an intern during Covid-19 and about what I’ve learnt from the internship. Before I started my internship at Aktuel, I was studying...

GDPR and translation

by Robin Bennett | Nov 20, 2019

This whole GDPR thing is a bad business, I fear. It’s not just that it’s beginning to look like a bandwagon for consultancy and compliance firms to charge for not a great deal, it’s part of a problem that is only going to get bigger. I think we have far too much of...

Humour in translation

by Robin Bennett | Nov 14, 2019

In spite of my best efforts, I’m at least 62% less funny in French. Yesterday, walking up the lane towards the house with the dog, my neighbour passed me in his tractor. On the other side of the road, my other neighbour was tottering along on his bike. As my tractor...