An AI experiment – and some thoughts on the future of our profession
It seems like ChatGPT is popping up everywhere right now. In fact, I just read a colleague's post about using it for researching her next blog post. This inspired me…
Secure future
An incident involving a fight, someone who wanted to help, a gun, police, and machine translation (MT) recently made the rounds on several social media platforms. And it only came…
The hidden Olympic discipline
Or at least one of Olympic proportions... Because without it, this international event would not have been as widely followed (or even known, in all likelihood). Of course, I'm talking…
Feedback for consec practice
During last week's mock conference I recorded myself in order to listen to and evaluate my performance. While this is fairly easy to do for simultaneous interpreting (if you have…
Meet Count Smorltalk
A little while ago I came across an absolutely wonderful blog called InterpreterSoapbox. It is a blog about interpreting, translation and multilingualism, created and edited by Monika Kokoszycka. There are…
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How one little word can make you exceedingly happy
If you've been following me for a while, you probably know by now that I not only translate and interpret, but also teach and train (not only) future translators and…
Let me tell you about two great guys (again)
I already wrote about them before, but I'm just so excited, I have to do it again, especially since they are about to publish another great resource, "The tablet interpreting…
Unexpected time out
2020 has thrown us quite a few curveballs already, forcing us to be more flexible than we perhaps ever thought possible.Not having any or less work or not being able…
Interpretation – a closer look, part II
If you have experienced simultaneous interpretation on the listener end but never tried it themselves - or if you're just curious what challenges are involved, here's an interesting (and funny)…
Interpretation – a closer look, part I
For those of you who may have experienced interpretation on the listener end but never tried it themselves - or if you're just curious what this "real-time translation" (not really…