We're all guilty of peppering our speech with words like um, like and well. Although such words don’t bear any real meaning, they do win us some time whilst something is still lingering on the tip of our tongue. These little words are called 'filler words' as they...
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...
This is your second time with First Edition as you first started with us in 2011 and have been "away" for 8 years. Is it a different experience now? Has anything changed compared to the first time? Eight years, three children, a global pandemic and remote working –...
Last month we greeted a new team member, Brigitta at the Commercial Department and today we are glad to welcome another new (well… returning) team member at our Editorial Department. Everyone, meet Karima! Some of you might remember her from 9 years ago when she first...
We would like to welcome a new team member at First Edition today, Brigitta Bacsai, the latest addition to our busy commercial team. Some of you might have already been in touch with her this week, as she might have answered your enquiries, queries and helped you get...
Last year we started a new blog series, "Meet the Translator", in which you could read about the translation professionals behind the scenes: those people who use their years of experience and vast knowledge to prepare the translated version of your important and...
Back in the olden days, so-called sorts or types – which represented individual letters and symbols – were selected and placed in a form one by one to make up a page. The aptly named typesetters specialised in this onerous task. With the advent of the digital era, the...
As you might expect from the team at a translation agency, we are avid readers who often enjoy translated literature. This week James has brought us an interesting lockdown-read, Death and the Penguin by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. The novel is about an aspiring...
Laughter truly is a balm during these difficult times so when Jenny, one of our favourite English editors and proofreaders, got in touch to tell us about her special knitting and crocheting project, we all welcomed the respite – and decided to share Jenny’s ingenious...