Author: Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs is Director of Languages Beyond 2000, teaching classes in French, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese, all easily accessible on Zoom. Her students are from many leading law firms and banks including Linklaters, Norton Rose Fulbright, HSBC and the Bank of England. Email susanelizabethisaacs@icloud.com, website languages2000.co.uk, LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/susanisaacslanguages/.
Do interpreting apps really work well?
“I think it’s absolutely terrifying,” said my husband, when he tested out the app, and as a linguist, and as a normal human being, I’m inclined to agree. As lawyers, there must often be situations where such an app would be useful, or even indispensable. The question everyone is asking is when will such machines […]
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Languages for lawyers
In the January issue I covered some of the general material on the internet designed to help you learn a language. In this article I look at some of the material covering legal topics as well as describing a few more of the more general resources. If your French is already reasonably good, you can […]
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How to study languages on the internet
You may not realise it, but if you are a lawyer, you are automatically a linguist. When you consider that you may spend hours debating the interpretation of one word in a contract and many thousands or even millions of pounds may hang on that interpretation, you’ll realise that your linguistic skills are pretty finely […]
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