The following interview was conducted by Skype between Los Angeles and Montreal S. S. – the interviewee  J. G. – the interviewer                                             Jonathan: Your parents were born in Toronto. You spoke English […]

We welcome back [1] to the ranks of our contributors John Wellington a New Yorker whose art finds its inspiration in Old Master paintings, religious and pop icons, cinema, music, and his fascination with devotion, idolatry and the use of male and female imagery in art and life.  He has shown in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco,

Our linguist of the month was chosen following a chance encounter I had with him on a recent visit to Barcelona. Àlvaro works as a tour guide at Gran Teatre del Liceu (Opera House of Barcelona), which is situated on the Rambla, and has served as an arts center and one of the cultural landmarks

    L'auteur : Joe LurieCreative Consulting and Coaching Across Cultures,Communicating across Cultures PerceptionAndDeception.com  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 8, 2015) reviewed by : Donna Scott, Los Angeles One of the pleasures of reading literature is the discovery of how much alike we humans are in our universal needs, desires and fears; consider the writer's

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW In March, Grant Hamilton,  translator, author of Les trucs d'anglais qu'on a oublié de vous enseigner and regular collaborator with Le Mot juste en anglais, spoke with David Crystal, one of the world’s most eminent English-language linguists [*]. Below is a shortened transcript of their conversation.   David Crystal The Interviewee Grant Hamilton The Interviewer

We welcome our “Linguist of the Month”, Andrew Leigh, a British translator specializing in legal and commercial translations from Spanish and from French into English. Andrew owns Allegro Legal Translations, based in Sheffield, south Yorkshire. Our faithful correspondent, Cynthia Hazelton, like Andrew, holds a law degree and works as a professional legal translator. Cindy also teaches

 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Dr. Geraldine Brodie –l'interviewer  Dr. David Bellos –l'interviewee      University College London University of Princeton    David Bellos is the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French and Comparative Literature  and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University. He is the author of Romain Gary: A Tall Story (published

                Anglais de pacotille       Manship, suffixe anglais à tout faire 14/10/2018 22/07/2017   Veni, vidi, vici : les dictionnaires visuels Le 23 octobre – le 200ème anniversaire de Pierre Larousse   18/05/2017 21/10/2017               Créancier de l'anglais, le français

INTERVIEW   Poet Pascale Petit, our interviewee,  was born to a Welsh mother and French father and grew up between Paris and Wales. Four of her seven poetry collections were nominated for the T.S. Eliot Award. Poems from Fauverie won the Manchester Poetry Prize and she was also granted a Cholmondeley Award. Pascale has been

Contributions precedentes de René Meertens : Anglais de pacotille 14/10/2018 Manship, suffixe anglais à tout faire 22/07/2017 Veni, vidi, vici : les dictionnaires visuels 18/05/2017 Le 23 octobre – le 200ème anniversaire de Pierre Larousse 21/10/2017 Créancier de l’anglais, le français s’est payé en nature 9/10/2016 La grande aventure du mot « peradventure » racontée

Jonathan : You were born in the United States. Where and when did you learn French ? In high school I had four years of traditional instruction in French. Years later, I realized my teachers had taught me all the French grammar I would ever need to know (more than all, in fact: I have