The year that just closed was perhaps the most challenging of my life, from different points of view. Above all, the event underscoring it – and I am obviously referring to the pandemic and its economic impact – is the first real crisis to affect society at large since the war events of the last century....

The second episode of this series discussing various multilingual countries and the languages spoken there is about our bel paese: Italy. As mentioned in the “pilot episode”, the first season will focus on Europe. Europe has 13 bilingual or multilingual states with two or more official...

We are delighted to present a new column today. In this series of “episodes” we’ll discuss various multilingual countries and the languages ​spoken there. If we think of the articles of this blog as if they were a TV series, we could say that the first season will specifically discuss European...

In a world where the digital sphere has become an integral part of everyday life, cyberspace protected by cybersecurity has come to be our “new world”, where thousands of data flow every day. Any international community, nation, company and user must absolutely protect this information. WHAT EXACTLY IS...

Let’s talk about one of our specialisations today: patent translation ASTW is a leader in the field of patent translation, in any language combination.  Our experience in the field of patents and our many years collaborating with important intellectual property consultancy and patent attorney offices are a...

But, weren’t you a biologist? Years ago, by the time I had been working full time and with satisfaction on patent translation on a freelance basis, people were surprised to hear me say that I translated patents all day long. I remember their befuddlement, which was expressed more or less in such terms: “But,...