Posts Written By Mary Gilbey

  • Historic A Levels: would you cope?

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    Going up into the loft, unless this is an everyday occurrence, can be a chastening experience: all those memories and relics of the past gathering dust. Routing through the accumulated detritus recently I came across my old French A level papers. They were scary. Paper I on June 11 1964 lasted from 2 – 5 and consisted of two questions.

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  • Come and visit us at the Hunts Business Fair

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    Not long to go now until the Huntingdonshire Business Fair at Wood Green Animal Shelters, Godmanchester. Pop by and visit the Anglia Translations stand and have a chat about how we can help you to expand into new markets. You could also be in with a chance to win a bottle of champagne! So don’t be shy, pop on by!

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  • Do the French know their “ognons”?

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    A grammatical ding dong is currently engaging the minds of French intellectuals (all the French consider themselves intellectuals), and the furore is about the proposal to abolish the circumflex accent, that funny hat-like object that hovers over all the French vowels. This revolutionary change was first proposed and agreed 26 years ago by the Académie Française, but fears of a

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  • Barbara Esam

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    Like most translation companies, Anglia has a panel of expert and experienced linguists based principally in their native countries, and we have worked with them for many years. The relationship we have with translators based in China or France or Sweden is both distant and yet intimate. Although we rarely meet them, indeed very often we do not know what

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