Thanks to the globalised world we live in, there are more and more multilingual conferences. Sometimes due to a tight budget, English is used as a lingua franca and those speakers not able to deliver their speech in English magically disappear from the programme. Yet, more professional and international conferences include multilingualism in the package. Unfortunately, both […]
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The Foreign Language Effect – Mandela was right!
Interpreting TranslationWhat if I tell you that a person does not think in the same way in his/her mother tongue and in a foreign language? Is it possibile to end up making a decision instead of another merely based on the language used in the conversation leading to such a choice? The answer is yes! Such […]