by itltranslations | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorised
Did you know that the 16th of October is Boss’s Day? We wanted to take this opportunity to introduce our Boss, Company Director Corinne! Corinne’s parents started International Translations Limited back in 1976, and Corinne took over the running of the...
by Libby Mimnagh | Oct 9, 2019 | Culture, Languages, linguistics
Most of us are aware that the word ‘autumn’ is used mainly by English people, and ‘fall’ is used mainly in America. But why does this season have two completely different names depending on where you are in the word? It might surprise you to...
by Libby Mimnagh | Oct 2, 2019 | Business, International Markets, Translation
Translation services can be of real use to businesses for a number of reasons. We wanted to go into just a couple of these below! Translation services can help you: Reach a wider audience It’s the aim of every business to increase sales. Therefore it is of...
by itltranslations | Sep 27, 2019 | Culture, Google Translate, Languages, Translation, Travel
There are lots of little things you can do to make travelling in a country where you don’t speak the language a little easier. We wanted to offer some useful tips below: The main and most obvious thing that will help is to learn the language! This might seem to...
by Libby Mimnagh | Sep 17, 2019 | Languages, Translation
Today marks the opening of the 2019 United Nations Grand Assembly. But what actually is the United Nations, and what does it do? About the UN. The United Nations is an international Organisation that was founded in 1945, after the end of the second world war, when...
by itltranslations | Sep 11, 2019 | Languages
The following is the insight of a 15-year-old high school student, Emma, who spent a spent week with us for work experience: As a year 10 student who, despite having completed my Spanish GCSE a year early with an intention to go on to learn more languages to the...
by Libby Mimnagh | Sep 4, 2019 | Languages, linguistics
Languages are extremely complex things, so it’s not surprising that children learning their first language often make a few mistakes here and there! These mistakes are more formally known as ‘errors in early word use’ or ‘developmental errors’....
by Libby Mimnagh | Aug 28, 2019 | Accents and Dialects, Languages
It has been reported in the news that there is growing concern that virtual assistant devices, like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, may be causing a decline in regional accents. This claim seems to be backed up by a recent survey by The Life Science Centre in...
by Libby Mimnagh | Aug 21, 2019 | Languages
Most English speakers aren’t very knowledgeable about tonal languages, as English itself is a non- tonal language. A non-tonal language simply means that, although tone might convey some emotional information about the speaker, tone does not indicate anything about...
by Libby Mimnagh | Jul 24, 2019 | Uncategorised
There are a lot of words in the English Language (over 170,000 words in the English dictionary alone, which doesn’t take into account things like slang and jargon) so it’s understandable that the average English speaker only knows between 20,000 and 35,000...
by Libby Mimnagh | Jul 17, 2019 | Accents and Dialects, Culture, Languages, linguistics
It is easy to forget just how much of an impact the language we speak has on our life. We take language for granted as our means of communication, but the language we speak actually has much more impact on our lives than most of us realise. Would it surprise you to...
by itltranslations | Jul 3, 2019 | Languages
This week we are lucky to have a fantastic work experience student with us, who has written the following guest blog to give an insight into what language learning at school is like! Without further ado, here is Grace explaining what language learning is like as a...
