Minister makes history with EU speech in Gaelic

Today is a momentous day for language, especially the Scottish Gaelic language and therefore the Scottish people. In the last census of Scotland, which took place in 2001 there were a total of 58,652 Gaelic speakers. The overall pattern for the language has been one of steady decline. However despite the shortage of Gaelic speakers, [...]

Plea for interpreters for Dorset-based Olympic sailors

Today Translations, the professional translation agency has learned that professional translators and interpreters are being called on to assist international sailors taking part in the 2012 Olympic sailing events in Dorset. Weymouth and Portland will play host to 400 international athletes at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sailing events for the games are to [...]

Disappearing languages

Losing Our World’s Languages At Today Translations we have taken a serious interest in the way language is used around the world and how it evolved to be so. When we recently learned that every 14 days a language dies we were shocked to say the least and even more devastated to hear that by [...]

Better safe than Suri

What exactly is in that exotic baby name? Now you can find out with a Today Translations Name Translation Audit Celebrities and their crazy baby names: they do love ‘em. And why not? Which is all very well when those names are pretty well-understood by the public at large. There’s not much wrong with the [...]

Is Glaswegian lost in translation?

It’s “fly cup” time at Charmaine’s Prize Bingo in the heart of Glasgow’s historic Gallowgate, close to the city centre. The tea break means there’s no bingo lingo to be heard, but the walls echo with patter sharp enough to bring a smile to the tear-stained faces of the china clowns who look on mournfully [...]

We can translate Glaswegian, nae-borra

Well, it looks like Today Translations will go down in history as the company that advertised for Glaswegian interpreters. Since we placed the ad – in Gumtree, Craigslist and the Glasgow Herald – we seem to have generated something of a media storm. Apart from the Herald, we made The Sun and The Times. On [...]

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