Who would think that staying at home can be so challenging and tough?! I’m sure, most of us dreamed of a week or better a month off work. But now when we have it, it doesn't fee...
Those who have a natural attraction to reading, are indeed lucky! But not all of us, lucky bookworms, are being productive in our reading. Quite often, this very attraction turns us into blind...
Singular ‘they,’ yes or no? It has been one of the main dilemmas in my translation work this year. Especially considering the difference between how gender is used in Russian and E...
For me, machine translation and human translation are things of two different worlds. It does not mean that something is generally better than the other. Both have its pros and cons but p...
As a literary translator, I have a quite interesting hobby, which is to read the same book first in the source language (for me it is English) and then in the target language (for me it is Rus...
In Daoism, life is presented as a road which we have to follow. Sounds reasonable and kind of easy, does not it? But the older I get, the less visible this road of life appears to me.
