Thursday, March 31, 2016

A Presidential Natural Translator: Malia Obama

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When do you get to be interpreter for the president of the United States without any training or official examination? Answer: When you...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

A Young Interpreter In Another Era: George Thomas Staunton

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The penultimate post on this blog was about the contemporary Young Interpreter movement among schoolchildren in England. Before them there...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

What Makes an Expert Translator a Professional Translator?

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Previously, on this blog and elsewhere, I have maintained that what distinguishes a Professional Translator from a Non-Professional Exp...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Young Interpreters Again

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I always await the latest Hampshire EMTAS bulletin eagerly. EMTAS, in case you don't know, runs a Young Interpreter Scheme (YI) that p...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Machine Translation Comes of Age in Canada

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The law in Canada requires that all Federal Government documents written in one of the two official languages (English or French) be transla...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Fairy Tale Updates

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1. Nutcracker For the original post, enter nutcracker in the Search box on the right. At Christmas time this blog used to carry hist...
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Friday, January 1, 2016

Happy New Year 2016

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO MY FOLLOWERS AND ALL MY OTHER READERS! 2015 was bad for me, as you know if you've been following the blog through ...