Friday, October 31, 2014

Belgian Nuns and Chinese Students as Wartime Interpreters

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This year being the centennial of the outbreak of World War I (the 'Great War') in 1914, there has been an abundance of articles a...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

At the Gateway to Spain: Hitler, Franco, Pétain and their Interpreters

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October 23 marks the anniversary of the famous meeting between Hitler and Franco in the railway station of the strategic French frontier...
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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Ninth of October — Work in Progress

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Having more or less recovered from the tiredness that beset me after the journey to Ireland and England, I can now foresee regular resumpti...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

My Pilgrimage to Bletchley (conclusion)

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This post is the conclusion of the preceding one, which please read first. Japanese When I was a student at the School of Oriental and...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

My Bletchley Pilgrimage

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On my way home from Dublin to Valencia I stopped off in England. There the help of a younger relative enabled me to fulfil a long-cherished...
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

COLING 2014

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From August 23 to 29 I'll be attending the COLING conference in Dublin . COLING is the leading international conference in its special...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

The Interpreter's Accent

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The interest shown in the recent post about interpreters' voices encourages me to write about a related topic: their accents. In the c...
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