Exams, exams, exams
If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know that I also teach interpreting, at-sight-translation and CAT-tools at the (still) new Fachakademie für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen in Weiden.…
New A-Z
When was the last time you visited my website? Now is a good time to take a look again - there are new pictures! I finally got around to having…
MpT and HAMPsTr
You haven't heard of the two acronyms in the title? If you are a language service provider of any kind, you should have, since they have been around for a…
Don’t call me a translator!
For those of you who haven't heard this yet: José Mourinho, the current manager of the English football (or soccer) club Chelsea, who happens to speak five languages, gave high…
Quote of the day
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. Anthony Burgess
Press conference
Yesterday I had my first interpreting assignment at a press conference, doing a mixture of simultaneous and consecutive interpreting. It was at the organic trade fair "Biofach" in Nuremberg, and…
The New Resume
A new year often also means a new job - or at least the hope to find one. Traditionally, this involves writing a resume. However, in the 21st century, is…
The pitfalls of spell checkers
As a translator, I also regularly proofread the work of others. It's not always easy, sometimes it takes longer than if I had done the translation myself, although that is…
Year-end list
As I am taking a few days off everything, my year-end thoughts will have to wait until next week. But I don't want to leave you hanging without anything these…
English = English?
I was interviewed on the radio recently regarding interpreting. One of the questions was which English or Spanish dialect was hardest to understand. My answer was that it's usually not…
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