Episode 14: Why translation is important.

Wondering how translation works, or why translation is important? Won't Google Translate and AI just take over from human translation soon anyway? In Episode 14, Cate talks to Dr Charlotte Ryland, director of the Stephen Spender Trust and Queen's College Translation Exchange, about what translation is, and why it just might be the answer to the UK languages 'crisis' in schools. Read the accompanying blog on our website here.

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As the UK faces a languages crisis, with numbers dropping up to 50% in take-up of GCSE Modern Languages since 2003 and a £48bn deficit in the UK economy due to a shortage of linguists, join languages teacher and entrepreneur Cate Hamilton as she talks to scientists, linguists, wordsmiths, and other interested guests about why being multilingual is (and always has been) normal, and why linguistics matters now more than ever. Let's talk about talking!