On January 25 at noon New York time (the same time as the Speaking of Translation question and answer call), my good friend and colleague Cris Silva is presenting what looks like a fabulous webinar for ATA, on webcast and telephone interpreting. Cris does a lot of remote interpreting for high-profile events, so I’m sure [...]
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Webinar on remote interpreting
Posted in Announcements, Interpreting, Professional development, Webinars, Working from home on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
YouTube clip: Peter Less on interpreting at Nuremburg
Posted in Interpreting, Interviews, tagged Interpreting, Nuremberg, Peter Less, YouTube on December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s an interesting YouTube clip (it’s short, just over a minute) of interpreting legend Peter Less talking about remaining impartial while interpreting at the Nuremberg Trials. Less, who won the ATA’s Gode Medal (one of the translation world’s highest honors) in 2006, fled to Switzerland as a teenager but his mother, father, sister and grandmother [...]
Using audio media to practice interpreting
Posted in Interpreting on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last year I wrote a post on the importance of Keeping up your source language skills in order to communicate more effectively with your clients. Recently, I found that I’m far from the only translator who fantasizes about doing some interpreting in addition to my regular translation work. If you’re a translator and you’d like [...]
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