I was shocked and saddened to wake up the other morning to more news of the crisis in the teaching of foreign languages in our schools  Over recent years, the number of students opting to take Spanish and German has been steadily declining but now the same trend is bei...

The world of translation may seem rather mysterious, or even daunting, to the uninitiated.

This is hardly surprising given the huge range of possibilities available on the market, particularly via the Internet, with promises of “free online translations”, “machine trans...