by the LKTeam | 19th October 2020 | Language, Team, Trilingualism
When I first sat down to make a few notes for this blog post, I checked the date of my last post and almost fell off my chair in disbelief. 14 months! How in the world did that happen? Where did that year go? OK, let’s not delve into that particular powder keg –...
by the LKTeam | 30th April 2020 | Language, Translation
The power and resilience of language to adapt as it is buffeted, battered and bruised by the very world that creates it is quite incredible to behold. This year, we have seen brand new words and concepts that quite literally did not exist a few short months ago take...
by the LKTeam | 3rd July 2019 | Language, Switzerland
A couple of weeks have passed since my last blog post, and my 15-month old is happily pursuing his insouciant and incessant babbling. Although he had mastered mama and papa (not just the words but the actual concept as well) a few weeks ago, currently everything he...
by the LKTeam | 11th April 2019 | Language
In my previous blog post, I introduced you to the wacky world of raising trilingual children, and since a little time has passed, I wanted to give a little review of how we are currently faring with the OPOL (One Person, One Language) method. For the sake of this...
by the LKTeam | 7th March 2019 | Language
As with all master craftspeople, artisans, and (word)smiths, we translators have a variety of highly sophisticated tools at our disposal to help us piece together the perfect puzzle presented by each and every translation task. Computer-assisted translation tools...
by the LKTeam | 16th January 2019 | Language, Switzerland
Type “trilingual families” in Google today, and you hit about 1,320,000 results (thank you, Google). But growing up as a child in a trilingual family thirty-odd years ago, I am sure that there was not this abundance of research articles, books and blog posts regarding...
