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Blimey, what a start! This is the headline from The Daily Mail written by David Thomas. David appears to be a man of the world, he is by his own admission multi-lingual, well travelled and he has part Welsh and part Norwegian heritage. So why does he reason that the world should speak only English? [...]

It’s time to start making tracks… After two months of constant blogging, tweeting, news reading, proof reading and press releasing, my time at Global Lingo has come to an end. Joining the team as a PR and Marketing Intern, I was initially nervous of entering the social world. As an avid social media fan, I [...]

This great entertaining article on The Tyee demonstrates how the English language is used and turned around in Japan. The Japanese have a great love of the English language but to a native speaker the usage can be a little alarming. However, looked at with a forgiving eye their use of English is quite charming [...]

Wayne Rooney was interviewed by La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper. Clearly Mr Rooney can’t speak Italian so the interview was translated into Italian for publication. For some reason the original interview was then ‘back translated’ from this Italian translation and published as the English version of the interview. So far so good you might think. [...]