You were born in France. When and how did you learn English? At secondary school where it was my first foreign language. But I was better at Italian although I took it up later; so at the baccalauréat and thereafter at university, where I read French lit, Italian became my first foreign language with English in a […]

  ROS SCHWARTZ   34 Heriot Rd, London NW4 2DG   Tel. +44 (0)20 8202 7877 – E-mail: ros@rosschwartz.co.uk       TITLES TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH       Holy Virility, Emmanuel Raynaud, Pluto Press, 1982. Sociology/history.   I Didn’t Say Goodbye, Claudine Vegh, Caliban Books 1984 and E.P. Dutton (New York) 1985. Interviews with

Source : Réseau Ontarien d'Education Juridique Les systèmes judiciaires diffèrents d'un pays à l'autre. Deux systèmes judiciaires très répandus sont le droit civil et la common law. Souvent, le choix d'utiliser un système plutôt qu'un autre se fonde sur l'histoire du pays ou de la région en question. Par exemple, la France utilise le droit civil

CEATL – annonce   The Centre National du Livre français embarks on a project for a literary translation school 04-02-2012 - Training and education | France To satisfy the desire shared between French publishers and translators to train new generations of professional translators, particularly in the so-called ‘minority’ languages, and following the report commissioned from Pierre Assouline on The

Talking of editors, readers may not always realize that translators are not the only people to have had a hand in the text. In a good publishing house, an editor (as distinct from the copy-editor, who comes later and regularizes spellings and other minor problems) will always read through the text, and ideally the editor

by James Nolan Deputy Director, Interpretation, Meetings & Publishing Division, United Nations (ret); Head of Linguistic Services, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ret). Mr. Nolan was our Translator of the Month in May 2013. He is the author of "Interpretation. Techniques and Exercises”, published by Multilingual Matters; (October 2012) and "Spanish-English/English-Spanish Pocket

The following interview was conducted in English between Los Angeles and Beirut, Lebanon.   Lina Choueiri – The interviewee           Jonathan. G. – The interviewer                                                         

 Our latest contributor, John Wellington is 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, Miami, Paris and London.  His paintings

  Shaul Ladany, 78, our interviewee of the month, qualifies as a linguist on account of his knowledge of 8 or 9 languages (in 3 alphabets – Cyrillic, Latin and Hebrew). But readers may find equal interest in a life-story filled with adventures and achievements (both scholastic and sporting). For this reason, in the following

  L'interviewé/e L'intervieweur/euse 1/20 Christina Khoury Jonathan G. 2/20 Charles Moncrieff(entretien imaginaire) Jean Findlay 3/20 La famille Hulse Jonathan G. 4/20 Viktor Lazić Jonathan G. 5/20 Aileen Clark 6/20 Guénola Pellen  7/20 Sharlee Bradley Isabelle Pouliot   8/20 Gian-Paolo ACCARDO Nathalie GREFF-SANTAMARIA  9/20                     Anthony BULGER Éditions Assimil 10/20 Nicolas RAGONNEAU Anthony BULGER

  D'autres contributeurs et contributrices au fil de 2020:       Thibaut BOUXIERE Magdalena  CHRUSCIEL     Michelle DRUON Nadine GASSIE Brian HARRIS CynthiaHAZELTON Tina KOVER Jean LECLERCQ Françoise LE MEUR Dominique MATAILLET René MEERTENS Isabelle POULIOT   Joëlle VUILLE   Elsa WACK