Beyond the Words in top 25 Language Professional Blogs 2016

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“The votes were cast, and Beyond the Words is a huge success!“ – that’s how the message from the competition organisers starts. For the third year in a row Beyond the Words ended up in the top 25 language professional blogs in Top 100 Language Lovers 2016. Yet again this blog was named among 99 other […]

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3 tips for delivering great presentations

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Whether it’s a networking event, classroom, meeting with customers or conference speech, sooner or later you’ll be there too: in the spotlight, delivering a speech. There’s no one simple recipe for a great presentation. There are however a few things you can do to make your speech better and more engaging. This is what you […]

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Spotlight on Fun For All 2014

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Every two years Barcelona becomes the place to be for all video games translators and researchers. Finally, last week the long expected Fun For All: III International Conference on Translation and Accessibility in Video Games and Virtual Worlds took off in the sunny centre of Barcelona and brought together game localisation specialists, translators, researchers and enthusiasts. I […]

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Selfie, selfies and self-obsession

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Last week Oxford Dictionaries named „selfie” as the word of the year 2013 after revealing that its usage has increased by 17,000 % over the last 12 months. Incredible as it may seem, the popularity of the word signifies an increasing phenomenon of self-centred and self-obsessed generation. Selfie is defined as “a photograph that one […]

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