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Scottish Network of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, offering CPD, networking events and support to our members, mainly translators and interpreters based in Scotland. Our directory helps clients find professionals working in 25 languages.

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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Are your dancing ahoes ready for some "ceilidhing"? Wee reminder to our followers that registrations for our autumn workshop (10 October) are closing this Friday, 25th of September. Get your bookings in and join the workshop and our 35th anniversary celebration! 💃🕺🌋
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Join us for an extra special autumn workshop and the celebration of ScotNet's 35th anniversary with a family ceilidh! 💃 🕺 👯 Can't wait to celebrating our 35th anniversary with former, current and future members, family and friends of @itiscotnet.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotnet-au...
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ScotNet Autumn Workshop & 35th Anniversary Celebration Lunch and Ceilidh
Join us for an extra special autumn workshop and the celebration of ScotNet's 35th anniversary with a family ceilidh!
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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
August is Women in Translation month! What better way to celebrate? Head to Durham for 7:30pm on Wednesday 26 collectedbooks.co.uk/products/tra... #xl8 #WITMonth @tinakover.bsky.social
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Translation Slam! Celebrating Women In Translation Month with Dear Dic
Celebrate August as WOMEN IN TRANSLATION month by joining us for a TRANSLATION SLAM focussing on a blisteringly entertaining yet brilliantly subtle and complex novel by the sensational Virginie Despen...
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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Our next picnic is Saturday 27 June, 11-2 in Newcastle. Meet in Leazes Park, near the bandstand. Bring food to share and any outdoor game you fancy. Family, friends and pets are all welcome. We hope to see you there!
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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We're looking forward to our summer picnics. Saturday 13th June: 11am til 2pm in Hexham, The Sele Park, near the Bandstand Saturday 27th June: 11am til 2pm in Newcastle, Leazes Park, near the Bandstand All welcome! Bring food to share, family, friends, pets...
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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Wednesday, 29th April (20:00) at the Grosvenor Picture Theatre in Glasgow Tickets: www.grosvenorpicturetheatre.co.uk/.../das... Thursday, 30th April 2026 (20:00) at The Filmhouse in Edinburgh Tickets: www.filmhouse.org.uk/.../das-deut.... @itiscotnet.bsky.social
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Das Deutsche Volk (The German People)
On the night of February 9, 2020, a racist attacker shot and killed nine young people in Hanau, leaving behind mourning families and survivors who fight not just for their lost loved ones but also for...
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Thanks, @isabeltranslates.bsky.social, for bringing this to our attention. Good news for literary translators. 🤗
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
#Translation CPD in Edinburgh this coming Wednesday 11 March
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
From a small seed to a tree. At @itiscotnet.bsky.social we're celebrating our 35th anniversary. We're grateful to our founders and all the volunteers who've chipped in over the years to help this network grow, adapt and stay relevant. May we all continue to thrive for the next 35 years and more!
Collage of photos from various ScotNet events showing people in various locations and doing different activities. The background shows bits of the ancient Birnam Oak, a sessile oak and the last remaining tree of Shakespeare's Birnam Wood, made famous by his work Macbeth.
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Gentle reminder to book your spot for our spring workshop before the 4th of March 🎺🥁📯📣
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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Neighbours always welcome @itiscotnet.bsky.social #ITICommunity
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Department of Languages at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social is facing serious cuts with a proposal to make 11 of its staff redundant, stop offering undergraduate Chinese and German and eliminate intercultural studies courses. Please sign this petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...
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Save LINCS petition
To Principal Richard Williams, the University Executive and Court The Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University is under threat to lose a third of its staff, f...
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It's dreich out there, but our spring workshop is coming! On the 21st of March in Edinburgh, we'll discuss translation in the area of disaster risk reduction looking at languages and indigenous communities in Latin America, with Dr. Teresa Armijos Burneo. Info: itiscotland.org.uk/events/sprin...
Collage of three photos, two square ones at the top and a landscape shaped under. The first one shows Victoria Street in Edinburgh with The Quaker Meeting House sign visible. The second one is a room showing a speaker next to a screen at the far end and people sitting around tables looking towards the speaker. The landscape photo shows the white blooms of snowdrops on their green stems.
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ITI Interpreters' Development Network @idn-iti.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Our next event will be a session by Chartered Accountant Alison Bowyer on the new HMRC 'Making Tax Digital for Income Tax' scheme (20 Feb, 5:30pm GMT). Tickets go on sale tomorrow, 21 Jan, with reduced prices for IDN members. www.ticketsource.co.uk/iti-interpre... #1nt #MakingTaxDigital 1/2
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Our planned events for 2026: pub gatherings in Edinburgh (last Thursday of each month); Spring workshop in Edinburgh on 21 March (about indigenous language); Walking Weekend in the Spey Valley on 8-10 May; Autumn workshop in Edinburgh (early October); AGM and Christmas lunch in Glasgow, 12 December.
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Happy New Year, @Scotnetters and followers! May 2026 be joyful and heathy, and bring you enjoyable and profitable work and learning opportunities, a clear mind to find them and lots of networking with clients and colleagues! 🤗 📅
A reddish sandy path lined with heath bushes lightly covered in snow stretches from the viewer towards the middle of the photo among green Scots pine with their characteristic red bark and grey-green lichens growing from the base upwards.
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
First event of the year award goes to @itinortheast.bsky.social 😁
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Marian Dougan @mariandougan.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Greatly enjoyed today's @itiscotnet.bsky.social AGM and Christmas lunch. I love our get-togethers, if that's the right word for an AGM. Such lovely people!
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#CPD for consecutive interpreters
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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Did you know that the North East is home to the biggest Festival of Languages in the United Kingdom? The 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 is back from 6 January to 31 March 2026 expressyourselfne.com/2025/10/05/2... #xl8 #1nt #mfl
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Get ready for the 2026 Festival of Languages! – Express Yourself
Schools, community schools and groups will be encouraged to select a range of activities across the three months of Express Yourself to maximise the benefits for the region’s children and young people. There will also be a programme of activities open to UK schools and international schools.
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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The procession of university language closures will trip up UK diplomacy www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/proc...
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The procession of university language closures will trip up UK diplomacy
The government needs to signal its demand for elite foreign language skills before more universities leave provision to inferior alternatives, says Ian Proud
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
One of the perks of waking up at silly o'clock to attend a ScotNet event
Sunrise over a wide Scottish river and grassy hillside as seen through the bus window.
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
CPD
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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Next up: drinks/food at The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle from 5:45pm on Friday 26 September. This is a joint social event with the Medical Network after their Newcastle workshop. Please comment below if you plan to come along
Photo of translators with drinks and pub food around a table at night time
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Florent Moncomble @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org · 20/08/2025
When you struggle to find the equivalent of a word or phrase in another language, do you sometimes find yourself opening Wikipedia, searching for it then navigating to the "languages" section to get its title in the other language? Well, I do, and I got tired of it, hence: #linguistics #xl8 #xl9n
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Look up Wikipedia pages across languages
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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I'm looking for another authenticity/sensitivity reader, this time for dissociative identity disorder. It's for feedback on a character in a graphic novel I'm translating. Ideally they'd have experience with SR, comics, and historical fiction. Got any recs? #BookSky #Comics #xl8 #DIDSky
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
📢 CPD: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses? Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn. Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️ itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
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Autumn Workshop 2025 - ITI ScotNet
11/10/2025 @ 09:30 - 13:00 - ITI Scottish Network invites you to its autumn workshop: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses? with LYNDA HEPBURN To be held at The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh o...
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📢 CPD: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses? Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn. Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️ itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
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LinkedIn
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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
#xl8 🌐 #literarytranslation 💙📚
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
It's never too late to bring your attention to our latest newsletter, published in June. A most refreshing read for these hot summer days! And a good way to catch up with what our members have been up to lately. 😁 itiscotland.org.uk/17991/newsle...
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ScotNet Newsletter | June 2025 - ITI ScotNet
Bursting the Bubble If you’re reading this newsletter, the chances are that you spend a reasonable amount of your time working solo – and for many of us, that’s just the way we like it. However, I’m s...
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Beth Fowler - Translator @bethfowler.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Delighted to have my translation of a short story by Laura Ferrero included in this issue!
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ITI Interpreters' Development Network @idn-iti.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Unsure how to translate а, то, да, ведь, вообще, вот, уж, то, тут, там, же and other pesky #Russian words? @iti-uk.bsky.social's Russian Network is holding an event with Michele Berdy on 21 June in London: Little Words, Many Meanings, Big Problems www.tickettailor.com/events/itiru... #xl8 #1nt
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Buy tickets – An afternoon with Michele Berdy – Blue Lounge, St Paul’s, Robert Adam Street, London
The Russian Network of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting is thrilled to be hosting Michele Berdy, the renowned Russ...
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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This has just popped up in my faceache memories, and I know my fellow word-nerds here will love it too. I particularly like 'againster'; what's your favourite? #langsky #linguistics #words
Meme:
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A random assortment of archaic/disused English words that should still be used:
•	brust (bristled or bristly),
•	coolth (coolness. We still have 'warmth' so why did this one disappear????),
•	ambiloquent (using ambiguous language),
•	downsteepy (steeply descending),
•	mazeful (confusing),
•	evulgate (to send out among the people, to publish or distribute),
•	toploftical (haughty),
•	hazardry (risk-taking),
•	dizzard (a fool, jester, or stupid person),
•	againster (someone who is habitually opposed to things or 'against' things),
•	loselry (behavior characteristic of a losel, which is similar to a 'loser,' except the connotation encompasses "profligate" or "scoundrel"),
•	plaguey,
•	malengine (evil intent, fraud, deceit),
•	beasten (of or pertaining to beasts),
•	wranglesome (contentious and prone to quarreling),
•	dwine (to waste away).
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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Alert to greenwashing after a great day's @itiscotnet.bsky.social summer workshop! Looking forward to the ceilidh...
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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Don't miss this corker of a reading from the always-brilliant @isabeltranslates.bsky.social, from THE TRUE WAY OUT (CEEOLPress, 2024), #Czech journalist and musician Patrik Banga's raw and open account of growing up in 1990s Prague as part of the #Roma community.
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Isabel Stainsby reads from Patrik Banga's THE TRUE WAY OUT, (CEEOL Press, 2024)
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
An interesting podcast about exploring identity and origins.
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Institute of Translation and Interpreting @iti-uk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Feeling stressed or even unsure about your future? You don’t have to face the uncertainty alone. In his insightful article, @JC Penet explores how coaching-style conversations can help translators and interpreters manage overwhelm, navigate change and face the future together.
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Good talk!
JC Penet explores how coaching-style conversations can help translators and interpreters improve their wellbeing.
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ITI Interpreters' Development Network @idn-iti.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Greetings from our brand new Bluesky account. Spread the word if you can. 😊 #1nt #TerpLove And don't forget, we have an event tomorrow that is all about #cash. www.ticketsource.co.uk/iti-interpre...
Picture of Johnny Cash walking away from the camera and carrying his guitar case.
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
CPD for sustainability translators in our network?
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The hills are alive with the sound of... well, by the the time we made it to the top, quietly joyful #Scotnetters. 🎶 Breathtaking beauty, breathtaking heat and a breathtakingly steep path. I don't know about you, but my takeaways are tired muscles, a full soul and full belly.
Line of hillwalkers seated on top of a mountain overlooking the blue waters of a loch and lower hills in the distance.People walking down a rocky mountain side with a blue sky and a big white cloud behind them.Line of people walking up a hill on a path among heather and grassy moorland to the left and broadleaf trees on the top right side against a blue sky.
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Let the Eating Weekend commence! I mean, the Walking Weekend, of course! 😜 See you all shortly.
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Last reminder that bookings for our summer workshop are closing in 2 days! Sorry to be a pest, but we don't want anyone to miss out if it can be helped. 😇
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Bookings are still open for our 2025 summer workshop on 6-8 June! 🌞 Join us to discuss sustainability with Marjolein Thickett, Lorraine Ishak and Aida Ferrer in Dumfries. Tasty food 🥙, a friendly bunch to network with 🙋‍♂️, engaging CPD 👩‍🏫, a joyful ceilidh💃 and a walk. What's not to like? rb.gy/ejlxny
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Summer Workshop 2025 - ITI ScotNet
07/06/2025 @ All Day - ITI Scottish Network invites you to its summer workshop on S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y W I T H AIDA FE R R E R  A G U I L A R , M A R J O L E I N  T H I C [...]
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Three free spots for our Walking Weekend on 16-18 May! 🥾🧢 Dear #Scotnetters, there are still three spaces available for our walking weekend in Aberfeldy. We cannot promise the same glorious weather we had last year, but great company, beautiful highland landscapes and networking are guaranteed. ⛰🌳
The green and heather-covered slopes of the Scottish Ben Vrackie hill seen from the path, with the backs of three people walking towards it on a sunny day with clear skies.
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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🌐 #xl8 #langsky #linguistics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Swahili? Mandarin? The UK is increasingly multilingual – yet our politicians won’t talk about it | Laura Spinney
Even the census ignores them, but multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future, says science journalist Laura Spinney
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Auriane Destrument @aurianed.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Do you work or foster an interest in translation? Are you based in/near Newcastle upon Tyne? Join us for our next event, organised by @itinortheast.bsky.social & @newcastleuni.bsky.social Spanish > English Translation Slam, Thurs 1st May 2025 Newcastle University itinortheast.wordpress.com
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Bookings are open for our 2025 summer workshop! 🌞 Join us on 6-8 June in Dumfries to discuss Sustainability with Marjolein Thickett, Lorraine Ishak and Aida Ferrer. Tasty food 🥙 🥘, a friendly bunch to network 🙋 🙋‍♂️, engaging CPD 👩‍🏫🧏‍♀️, a joyful ceilidh 💃 🕺 and a walk. What's not to like? rb.gy/ejlxny
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Summer Workshop 2025 - ITI ScotNet
07/06/2025 @ All Day - ITI Scottish Network invites you to its summer workshop on S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y W I T H AIDA FE R R E R  A G U I L A R , M A R J O L E I N  T H I C [...]
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Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New podcast from La Revue Ecossaise (in French). Our 2nd episode on Scottish waters, looking at the quality of Scotland’s acqua and uisge beatha - with references to Loch Katrine, Irn Bru, gin, and a fresh translation of Robert Fergusson’s poem “Caller Oyster” 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on.soundcloud.com/Jwdg5CsodcPy...
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L'Écosse et l'Eau (2/3) - Nourrir l'Écosse, Brexit et Alimentation
Le printemps est là. Les jonquilles s’ouvrent, les manteaux s’allègent (un peu), et à Édimbourg, le soleil fait des apparitions suffisamment longues pour qu’on se dise que, oui, l’hiver est bel et bie
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isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Literary translator pals: if you have a new book out, or are trying to pitch one, you could do a lot worse than record a quick video for Translators Aloud! 🌐 #xl8 💙📚
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ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
2 days to go! Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday for what is forecast to be a very useful workshop. But hopefully this week's vitamin D boost will suffice, as it looks like we cannot expect the sunniest day in Edinburgh on Saturday. "C'est la vie!" 🤷
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