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CONTENTS
News & editorial
FIGHT TO SAVE
LANGUAGES AT HULL . . . . . 5
INSIDE PARLIAMENT . . . . . . 6
The all-party group met twice this spring
Multilingual TV
SO GOOD THEY
SHOT IT TWICE . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Inside view of how global hits Hinterland and
Keeping Faith were shot in English and Welsh
THE TRAILBLAZERS . . . . . . 11
Influential silent film narrator Tokugawa Musei
OPEN CAPTIONS . . . . . . . . 12
Could working collaboratively help subtitlers
to deal with the challenges of the job?
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Editor M Moore linguist.editor@ciol.org.uk
Sales D Butler +44 (0) 20 7940 3100; deborah.butler@ciol.org.uk
Editorial Board
Chair K Trotman BA MA DipTrans MCIL
R Al-Taie MA PhD MCIL CL
D Butler BA (Hons) (ex officio)
C Fairfoull BA MA ACIL MCIPD AIRP
J Hughes CIOL Student Member
K McLaughlin BA PhD FCIL CL FHEA
M Moore BA (ex officio)
J Oppedisano BA MA DPSI MCIL
E Pavlopoulos LLB MAEd PGCE
J Worne (ex officio)
A Zafar BA MA CIOL Career Affiliate
For a list of Council and committee members,
see www.ciol.org.uk/council
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The Incorporated
Linguist, is the official
journal of the Chartered
Institute of Linguists
Features
THE BIG IDEA . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Making a success of Abraço Cultural
INTERPRETING:
FROM C TO B . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Practical advice for improving a C language
and getting it to the level of near-fluency
EMBASSY INSIGHTS . . . . . . 17
Spotlight on the work of the Goethe-Institut
AUTHENTICALLY
DIFFERENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Why Annie Rutherford added Scottish accents
to her translation of a German bestseller
A WINDOW TO
THE WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
How World Kid Lit is broadening children's
perspectives through translated books
ON BOARD FOR ENGLISH? . 22
What new rules in Norwegian shipping tell us
about the impact of language policy on safety
Reviews
BOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
TOP PICKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Our reviewer's selection of influential titles
Opinion & comment
LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
EN FAMILLE . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
How to support a child with a language delay
Institute matters
A LIFE WITH LANGUAGES . 29
One member's story in her native Macedonian
JUST DO IT: JUST TEACH . . 30
Council member Romana Sustar shares her
tips for online teaching with CEO John Worne
MARIO AND THE ART
OF STORYTELLING . . . . . . . 32
Insights into author Mario Giordano's work
ahead of his talk on the role of the translator
MEET OUR MEMBERS . . . . . 33
Translator Daniel Gwira discusses working in
the UK and his recent return to Ghana
WORKING FOR CIOL . . . . . 34
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