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Our linguist, Alexandra was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and has lived in Belgrade, Berne (Switzerland), Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Leiden (The Netherlands). She has a BA in…
Read interviewBy way of a brief description, the Caribbean archipelago is a chain of idyllic islands in North and South America, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. Essentially, the…
Read interviewOur interviewer, Susan VO is a French Interpreter with 14 years experience as a staff member and freelancer with the United Nations, the Canadian Federal Government and…
Read interviewFrancisco and Merav, our guest linguists of the month, live in San Francisco. I have known them for many years and seen at first hand their skills…
Read interviewFor several years distinguished linguists were interviewed every month for our French sister blog, Le Mot juste en anglais. Readers therefore understandingly will ask : How have…
Read interviewOur guest interviewee is Ros Schwartz, a prolific, prodigious and prize-winning literary translator (French>English), as this interview and her CV below make clear. Ros was awarded the…
Read interviewJG : You come from a cosmopolitan family and you grew up in several countries, before you settled down in the United States. Tell us about that.
Read interviewJG: You were born in Belo Horizonte (Beautiful Horizon), Brazil. When we speak about your linguistic career, it will seem to the readers that that name [1]…
Read interviewI grew up between Ohio and the southwest of the US and for as long as I can remember I dreamed about traveling overseas. Maybe it’s because…
Read interviewBy way of a brief introduction, the Caribbean archipelago is a chain of idyllic islands in North and South America, surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. Essentially, the…
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