Try explaining to a foreigner why the phrase "neither fluff nor feather" (ni pukha ni pera) is a wish for good luck, a...

Every one of us has been tricked at least once by the external similarity of words in different languages. You see a familiar ro...

When a language disappears, the world loses more than words. It also loses ways of describing nature, family ties, migration his...

A good translation rarely appears “in a single burst of inspiration.” At the beginning, many people think that excel...

A good translation often feels invisible: the reader simply gets a clear, accurate, and natural text. But behind that ease there...

The translator’s job often looks simple from the outside: “If you know a language, you can translate.” In real...