Feeling absolutely impotent and incredulous about what is happening around the world, I felt the need to post something showing my disapproval of the war and of any actions that are not in line with healing the world and taking steps to recover from the pandemic, and fighting climate change. The world is ailing as it is. A war today seems incomprehensible. I thought humanity had learned from history and yet here we are…
Continuing with the humourous cartoons about translators I felt the inspiration to create this cartoon playing a little with the most dreaded word a translator can hear —”deadline”.
Translators are an odd type that is most exposed when mingled with other “normal” people. No matter how hard they try to go with the flow, there is always a detail that will give them away. Do you agree?
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Each new year brings hope and renewed energy to try things over again. Send this card to ignite that spark in others and remind them there is room for trying again. Happy 2022.
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If you are all for new beginnings and new chapters, this is the right card for you to send in 2022. With 365 chances of writing your story of success, this card shares the hopeful and cheerful spirit for a bright and promising future.
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December is a very special month as we often use it to take stock of what the past year has been like and make new resolutions for the upcoming year. It is also the month when we take some time to reach out and send our best wishes to your loved ones.
Here’s the updated version of the Happy New Year card 2022 for translators and interpreters. A good way to stay close and remind others you’ll be open for business in 2022.
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´Tis the season and it’s time to send your best wishes to your clients and colleagues. This Christmas tree for translators is the best way to send your best wishes for the new year to come and also serves as a marketing business reminder that you are ready and available to take on work in 2022.
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The holiday season is here and it’s time to send your best wishes to your clients and colleagues. This Christmas tree card for interpreters is the best way to wish the best for the new year to come and also serves as a marketing business reminder that you are ready and available to take on work in 2022.
Stay tuned for the Xmas tree card for translators 2022.
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RP is probably the most widely studied and most frequently described variety of spoken English in the world, yet recent estimates suggest only 3% of the UK population speak it. (…) As well as being a living accent, RP is also a theoretical linguistic concept. It is the accent on which phonemic transcriptions in dictionaries are based, and it is widely used (in competition with General American) for teaching English as a foreign language. RP is included here as a useful reference, not to imply it has greater merit than any other English accent, but because it provides us with an extremely familiar model against which comparisons with other accents may be made.
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If you believe in the law of attraction and would like to send positive vibes to your family, friends, clients, and colleagues in 2022, send this Christmas tree full of positive vibes and affirmations and set the tone for 2022. Expect and attract only good things.
May this 2022 bring peace, joy, love, interesting translation and interpreting assignments, and moments to cherish surrounded by your loved ones.
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A good translation is that which reads as if it was the original and most of the times translators remain invisible. However, there is one day in which all translators should be in the spotlight and get noticed. September 30th (International Translation Day) is that day.
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Have a good one!
When searching for material to practice big numbers for my interpreting training, I came across a fairly useful site called numerizer created by Anton Klevansky, who is a professional Russian conference interpreter member of AIIC. According to the the tool’s creator:
“Numerizer was designed for (future) interpreters and language learners by a professional interpreter with the aim of providing an unlimited source of challenging exercises, such as: jotting down every number in a sequence; shadowing (repeating after the speaker, first being just one number behind the original, then progressively trying to lag further behind); simultaneous or consecutive interpreting.”
Numerizer 1.0.2 beta has features that enable you to choose from several languages and accents, select the pace at which you would like to hear the rendering and set the amount of numbers to generate as well as the minimum and the maximum values.
The languages included are English US, English UK, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin), and Chinese (Cantonese).
Note: there seems to be a glitch that does not allow you to set a minimum to a number smaller than 10 000 or a maximum over 999 999 999.
I hope you find this tool useful and have fun with your practice.
Happy interpreting!
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