She was Estonian, he was French and I was driving up a clutch-judderingly steep hill in south -west France listening to France Musique on the car radio. In summer, France proliferates with music festivals and they become the staple diet of the national music station. I found myself listening to a live interview being conducted in front of a concert audience.
Though it remains one of the most widely written about subjects, words will never fully illustrate the atrocities of the First World War. However, the closest links we have to this darkest of periods are retained in the letters of the time.These letters were written either in the blood, filth and fog of the trenches, or from towns destroyed and afflicted with the fear of imminent death.
We all enjoy killing time on the internet chuckling at embarrassing mistranslations. This popular pastime has even catapulted some botched translations, such as "All your base are belong to us" and "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave," into internet infamy. Well, you get what you pay for.
The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, to give them their proper moniker, are upon us again. It has become de rigeur in recent years to regard Glastonbury as the UKs numero uno music bash, but three days of rock and roll in the rain of Somerset has got nothing on eight weeks of seriously good concerts in South Kensington.
YouTube announced plans last month for several new features, including a feature that will enable users to ask their viewers to provide translated subtitles for videos. With a community of more than 1 billion viewers across the globe and the majority of video content being created in English, this new feature makes a lot of sense.
When your CEO starts talking about Cyber threats to the business it might be unnerving to some; when the boss rolls up her sleeves, learns to code computers and starts to build workflow technology systems to mitigate the risk of fraud and cyber-attack you know theyre pretty serious about security.
Before the start of the Brazil - Columbia World Cup quarter-final game, with teams lined up to swear national fidelity through their respective national anthems, the UK ITV viewing audience was told, confidently, by Clive Tyldesley the match commentator that the two team captains will read out a statement condemning all forms of discrimination.
It was a dark and stormy night when Today Translations first set sight on Roger James Elsgood. Well, actually, it wasn't. It was a benign autumnal evening at the National Liberal Club where we had sponsored an evening of entertainment put together by our board member Sir Timothy Ackroyd.
London translation company and cultural consultancy firm Today Translations is proud to announce that the trailblazing systems it has developed over the past seven years has empowered it to become the first specialised language firm to be granted ISO27001:2005 certification for its global systems - the international standard for information security assurance.
Fifteen of Houston's top businesswomen from the GHWCC (Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce) across the retail, energy, legal and medical sectors came to London to meet their counterparts, share knowledge and forge new partnerships.
