Friday, March 27, 2020

Honoris Causa

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Last month I emerged from hibernation in Valencia to travel to the southern city of Malaga, there to receive an honorary degree (Doctorado H...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Chinese doctors translate WHO coronavirus guidance

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Coronavirus is all the news. As its spread goes international, translation is inevitably involved. Some of the translating is no doubt ...
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Monday, December 23, 2019

Queen Elizabeth I of England, Lifelong Native Translator

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There are translators who do it for money (salaried or freelance); there are those who do it pro bono (for friends, relatives, NGOs, lov...
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Saturday, December 7, 2019

Kerala Schoolgirl to the Rescue

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Each year at the translation school of the University of Ottawa we used to host a group of sixteen-year-old students from local secondar...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

News from India

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Those of you who've read the 2017 guest post on this blog by Indian translator Prabha Sridevan (see photo), and especially the severa...
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Saturday, October 26, 2019

The Pageboy Interpreter

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Non-professional, untrained bilinguals have sometimes been called on to translate at important events and negotiations above their norma...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

NPIT5 at Amsterdam

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 The call for papers has been out for some time for the Fifth International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translatio...
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