Autor: Ariane Slater

Ariane Slater is a linguist, lecturer and translator with a master's degree in comparative literature und a Ph.D. degree in contrastive linguistics. From 1992 to 2000, she worked as a lecturer for linguistics at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, and Roehampton Institute London. She later specialised in military language and published articles and a book on the historical development of the language of the German Armed Forces. As a reserve officer, she was deployed to Afghanistan and took part in different military exercises. Since 2009 she has been teaching English with Bundessprachenamt, the Federal Language Office. In her spare time, she goes bird watching and occasionally plays the organ in church.