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Article on Cognitive interviewing

Cross-Cultural Cognitive Interviewing: Seeking Comparability and Enhancing Understanding Field Methods, November 2011; vol. 23, 4: pp. 331–341., first published on October 9, 2011 By Gordon

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Online Etymologies Dictionary

In this post we would like to present etymonline.com, an online dictionary of etymologies.Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and

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Translators Quiz

A Word Game from Oxford Dictionaries.com website!  Do you know your contronyms from your homonyms or your antonyms? Translators are often confronted to these words

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Multilingual Glossary on Agriculture

This multilingual glossary on agriculture was compiled by the RUAF Foundation (an international network of resource centers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security) <a href=”http://www.youscribe.com/catalogue/dictionnaires-encyclopedies-annuaires/ressources-professionnelles/multilingual-glossary-on-agriculture-432347″

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New Spanish Grammar

Do you still have queries regarding the latest changes of the Spanish Grammar?  And your are not planning to get the 3800 pages printed version.

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Translation Blogs

The ATA website provides a list of translation- and interpreting-related blogs. Blog Trekker Index A-C About Translation Alltop Linguistic News ALTATalk Blog Another Word Applied

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OECD Macrothesaurus

The Macrothesaurus for Information Processing in the field of Economic and Social Development represents a continuation of the combined efforts of many organisations over a

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Search Engine

Search Engine Colossus is an international directory of Search Engines., giving you links to search engines from the USA, EU countries, Australia, Canada, China, India,

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Transopedia

We came across yet another interesting blog entry. It is a glossary compiled by Zsolt Sesztak a professional English to Hungarian translator and it includes

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Oxford Textbook of Medicine

The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is the foremost international textbook of medicine. Unrivalled in its coverage of the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal

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COCA

 The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English. It

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Google – Ngram Viewer

Google has released a massive, searchable database that will give linguists and historians a new tool for quantitatively understanding how language and culture have changed

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