Empowering Interpreters: The Courage and Stamina Behind the Job

Posted on August 13, 2024 by Romina Bona

Interpreters deserve compliments — What every interpreter should tell themselves

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I’ve just completed a four-day interpreting assignment for the WIKIMANIA 2024 event in Katowice, Poland, organized by FOSSASIA. I had the honor of interpreting via streaming at the Ohrid Spanish room. The event was magnificent covering many interesting topics from technology, community health, research, legal & advocacy, governance & strategy, and so on. Useful information related to all the project pages on MetaWiki such as Wikimedia, Meta, MediaWiki, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, Wikijunior, Wikispecies, Wikifunctions, Incubator, and Sep11wiki.

After the four-day interpreting experience I shared with one of my closest friends, Sole, and with Diego, a professional young colleague from Chile, I could not help but wonder how we managed to do that.

I never get tired of telling people that interpreters are gifted people who do an extraordinary job. Diverse skills and qualities required for the job: it takes courage to sometimes face the unknown. It takes stamina to keep up with the speakers’ pace. It takes determination to do it right. It takes perseverance to keep doing it no matter what goes around. It takes hard work and preparation to reduce the occurrence of surprises. It takes resilience to overcome the challenges ahead. It takes so many skills and traits that each of us should remind ourselves over and over again that we are f* awesome!

My fellow interpreters, bravo!

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Keep calm signs for interpreters

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Romina Bona

Keep calm and interpret — Keep calm signs for interpreters

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Hi there! I’m currently completing my first year of training to become a professional interpreter — a pending subject I’ve had for so long is now becoming a dream come true. I love interpreting as much as translating, but when I’m not actually doing it and I start analyzing carefully what it entails to be a good interpreter I sometimes panic. Your brain is one of your biggest assets and allies, but it can also become your worst enemy. If you start overthinking it, your own thoughts can get in the way of the message the speaker is conveying and you are trying to get across in the target language. So many times, you should simply relax and worry about one utterance at a time.

Happy interpreting!

Send this card to your fellow interpreters to support them on their amazing job and remind them to keep relaxed.

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Golden rules for booth interpreters: use short sentences

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Romina Bona

Interpreters Golden Rules. Use short sentences. Purchase Code IB3.

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This is the third cartoon inspired by a series of YouTube videos about interpreting featuring Dick Fleming, formerly organizer of EU Commission interpreter training course and subsequently trainer of trainers. In this video, Dick describes the initial “golden rules” for interpreter trainees.

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Golden Rules for aspiring interpreters by Dick Fleming: express your ideas clearly

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Romina Bona

Golden Rules for Interpreters: express ideas clearly

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This is the second cartoon inspired by a series of YouTube videos about interpreting featuring Dick Fleming, formerly organizer of the EU Commission interpreter training course and subsequently trainer of trainers. In this video, Dick describes the initial “golden rules” for interpreter trainees.

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Golden rules for simultaneous interpreting by Dick Fleming

Posted on June 2, 2018 by Romina Bona

Golden Rules for Interpreters starting out on simultaneous interpretatuib

Golden Rules for Interpreters starting out on simultaneous interpretation

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This cartoon is inspired by a series of YouTube videos about interpreting featuring Dick Fleming, formerly organizer of EU Commission interpreter training course and subsequently trainer of trainers. In this video, Dick describes the initial “golden rules” for interpreter trainees.

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What may happen if two BFF simultaneous interpreters met at the booth

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Romina Bona

Simultaneous interpreters at the booth

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I have recently shared an interpreting assignment with one of my closest friends who is an outstanding interpreter and got the idea for this cartoon. This is cartoon is pure fiction as we did not have even a minute to catch up. However, I cannot help but wonder what if…

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