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by Cristina Titone - cApStAn LQC intern
"Linguistic Quality Assurance is a set of processes designed to ensure that multiple language versions of documents meet the highest standards of linguistic, cultural and functional equivalence": This is the definition of one of the main services offered ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The next wave of innovation in education may well be "extreme", say the authors of this recent article for Medium (1). Formal education, designed in an analog world and forcing everyone to take the same ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Content translation tools on Wikipedia allow editors to generate a preview of a new article based on an automated translation from another edition. Used correctly, these tools can save valuable time for editors, in particular ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Leonardo da Vinci had a voracious and prolific creative talent, says the author of this article, and today's models of assessment and methods of teaching are not receptive, or conducive, to creative impulses and disruptive, ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Former Asymptote Journal editor-at-large Tiffany Tsao spent three years translating into English the award-winning "Sergius Seeks Bacchus", by Indonesian poet Norman Pasaribu. By working so closely together, she says, the labels of "translator" and "author" ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Talk about what camp means has resurfaced lately thanks to the camp-themed Met Gala. First noted to mean the use of exaggerated actions or gestures in 1909 in the Oxford English Dictionary, It has ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
About 32 million unique online vacancy postings from seven EU countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, UK) have been collected by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and processed ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Stories and curiosities about different cultures, languages and traditions abound among cApStAn's very international linguist team. A charming story shared on the internal blog by South Korean linguist Shinoh Lee sparked off a discussion on how ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Yes, according to "La Francophonie" (OFI), a formal group of 58 nations across five continents, where French, spanning is officially or broadly spoken. Fifty years from now, they say, French will be spoken by 477 ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Education is changing to better cater to Gen Zers' specific needs, e.g. their wish to be the "architects" of their educational experience and to engage with the world as it changes. At Bennington, "pop-up" courses ... Read more >