The members of the Académie française are referred to as "the Immortals". Many French-speaking linguists who respect the talent and authority of the Académie and use Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie ... Read more >
Publishers around the world are reporting booming sales of "The Plague" (La Peste), an allegorical tale set in a town at the mercy of an epidemic, written by French Nobel ... Read more >
We are delighted to take the occasion of the 20 year anniversary of cApStAn LQC to present our revamped website, its new features and sections, graphic layout and content. ... Read more >
Psychometric tests in technology-rich environments, adaptive psychological tests, social and emotional skills, and profiling tests have gone multinational, thereby increasing the need for translation and adaptation into multiple languages. ... Read more >
"Hard work and good vibes", and "Excellence among friends" are the two mantras defining the way we work at cApStAn. We are all highly dedicated ... Read more >
The initials of of the three cApStAn founders form the cApStAn name: the company of Apor, Steve and Andrea. But a capstan is also a marine term... What is ... Read more >
cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control is the language service provider with a holistic approach to translation and adaptation of multilingual assessments and surveys. cApStAn also stands for a certain lifestyle and spirit: “excellence among friends”, as one of the founding partners likes to put it. Over the past ... Read more >
Apor Sajgő, Andrea Ferrari and Steve Dept had already been working together on PISA 2000 for almost two years when they founded cApStAn. And yes, for those who wondered, initials of our respective given ... Read more >
In 1983 Italian academic, historian, semiologist, journalist and author ... Read more >
Much has been said and written about Ludwig Wittgenstein and his theory of language, but the video narrated by British philosopher and author Alain de Botton provides a fresh and ... Read more >