This year's BCBF (Bologna Children's Book Fair) was a whirlwind event as ever. Joined by our CEO Jerry Froggett, our Head of Production Kasia was at the trade fair to meet up with our publishing clients and speak on the Discovering Hidden Gems with the European Union...
Local name: íslenskaLanguage family: North Germanic (part of the Indo-European family)Number of speakers: Current estimates range from 300,000 to 400,000 speakersWriting system: LatinOfficial language in: IcelandOne of the most often repeated mantra in linguistics is...
Believe it or not, in Ancient Greece the sky was not bright blue. It was bronze. Ancient Greeks were not colour blind, but instead of thinking in colours, they thought in a scale of brightness – and to them the sky seemed incredibly bright, just like shiny bronze...
Whilst showcasing at last year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse, a major event on any publisher’s calendar, we struck up meaningful conversations with stakeholders from across the globe. One of those conversations was with Dr Philip Laubach from German publishing house IMAGINE...
Over a fifth of England’s primary pupils speak English as an Additional Language (EAL). Yet educational resources in cultural spaces often fail to reflect this reality. As a result, children who speak languages such as Polish or Urdu at home are being cut off from...
Translators – the linchpin of localisation As technology advances and ever more lofty claims circulate online, it’s tempting to think you can enter a text into an automation tool and get optimum translation results in seconds. There is no denying that technology plays...
On behalf of a UK-based publisher, our veteran project manager Melanie collaborated with our translator Lisa on a remarkable literary translation. Our client had approached us with an 18th-century piece of French literature penned by one of the grandfathers of...
Home to well over six million people, Bulgaria is renowned for its rugged mountain landscapes and Black Sea resorts, which draw in throngs of visitors from across the globe. Indeed, tourism is one of the country’s fastest-growing industries today. Exportation also...
If you work with texts and editing as much as we do, you’ll be only too aware that there are a million ways errors can slip in. The causes are many – lapses in concentration, pesky autocorrect functions changing a word where it shouldn’t, or miscommunication in the...
Our two team members Eve Stenger and Alicia Pretot recently translated a whopping 63,000 words of content for a human rights organisation. Dedicated to safeguarding children’s rights, remedial action, gender equality and non-discrimination, this organisation advises...