Post-election post
If there was one topic it was impossible to get around this week, it was the presidential election in the US of A. And as seemingly everyone has had to…
Tablet Interpreting – USB Files
I recently decided to replace the netbook I had been using in the booth with a tablet computer. Actually, this was long overdue, as the netbook - not the fastest…
Challenge for interpreters
Just this week I had to remind my interpreting students how important it is to address people correctly - and then this pops up on Facebook: This won't be part…
Speak slowly, speak in your mother tongue
The news is not new in itself (the post is from February), but it was new to me - even though the content of it wasn't. (Have I confused you…
The best compliment ever
Last week I was on an interpreting assignment with a colleague regarding finance matters for a German company. The clients were two Americans, the rest (about 20 people) were Germans.…
Video Remote Interpreting – The Future?
The principal of the school I teach at a couple of hours a week recently asked me about my opinion on video remote interpreting, since he had just learned of…
Your brain after interpreting
Courtesy of @tuitsdegabriel
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.…
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…
Non-native English
This week I was interpreting for two days during the works council meeting of a large international company. On the first day, the works council met alone, discussing internal things…