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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 interviewThis month’s guest read history and educational psychology in England, his home country. He holds an honours degree in educational psychology from the University of London.
Read interviewOur guest translator, Alan Hoffman, a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School [1] , was for nearly 50 years a trial lawyer in Boston. He…
Read interviewKevin Hirschi is a Ph.D. candidate (and presidential fellow) in the Applied Linguistics program at Northern Arizona University where he has taught French and English. He is…
Read interviewDr. Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is widely known as a constitutional scholar and legal historian. During the 2019…
Read interviewDiane Murez, a trilingual writer born in Baltimore, studied for a year at the Gymnasium Goetheschule in Hannover on an American Field Service scholarship. After graduating summa…
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 interviewCarmella Abramowitz Moreau is a translator specializing in culinary translations from French, and living with her family in the 3rd arrondisement of Paris. The interview that follows…
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