Your professional translator

Hi! This wonderful post was prepared by my dear colleague and friend Jehanne Henin. Jehanne is a native French speaker and a professional translator from Russian, English and Croatian into French specializing in EU affairs, environment, renewable energy and tourism. You can learn more about her if you visit her website . Jehanne is also an active Twitterer, so I am sure she will be happy to see you among her Twitter followers. You can find her Twitter profile here. So here are some great facts about the French language that Jehanne prepared for you:

Hi! How are you? I hope you've had a good week and are ready for a new blog post which is actually not going to be about translation. It is going to be about learning foreign languages. Please meet Aaron G Myers, the Author of "The Everyday Language Learner's Guide To Sustaining". If you click here his website will open in a new window . He contacted me this week through Twitter and gave me a link to his Guide which you can find here . I followed the link and as I began reading I realized how special this little booklet really is.

It has been a long time since I recommended something useful and interesting here. So I decided to do it now. Hope you don't mind that =) When I started writing I had a plan to divide all links into categories like 'language teaching', 'translation' etc. But as I started looking through those links that I had saved in order to share them later with you, I realized that ALL of them have to deal with language teaching! So here they are: 1) This week I came across a wonderful blog that helps foreigners learn Russian. Here it is . It doesn't just give you new vocab and grammar, but describes some cultural issues that stand behind some phrases and words we use. I find it excellent! 2) I also found a great resource for teaching English to children . It has a real wealth of ideas. 3) I have also started to use a great online resource for those trying to learn French . I really like it. Hope it helps me to improve my French ;-) 4) And finally, I really fell in love with...