This crucial cognitive skill of reading ahead intellectually, emotionally, and rhetorically helps interpreters to proactively construct meaning.
Category - Conference interpreting
Dans l’art de l’interprétation, on pourrait croire que nous devons toujours parler, parler, parler… Mais en réalité, le silence est crucial.
A seasoned remote interpreting professional explains why boothmate communication behind the scenes is crucial.
An interpreter explains why she thinks the diplomatic debacle in the White House could have been avoided.
How many conference interpreters are using AI-powered tools and what confidentiality measures are they taking?
Autofilling glossaries is, at best, a zero-sum game. At worst, it’s going to make you make mistakes in the booth.
Why do interpreters say they need better sound than normal listeners? And what’s wrong with sound quality in video-conferencing?Here’s a quick guide. Why is my interpreter saying the sound quality isn’t good enough? I can hear the speaker just fine!There are two issues here. The first is that interpreters need to be able to hear...
Sharing a physical space with your boothmate has numerous professional and personal advantages over working alone from home. Covid lockdowns and the rise of the Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI) platform have had an extraordinary effect on the interpreting profession. One of the big changes is that conference interpreters are no longer...
Letter to Count Smorltalk Dear Count Smorltalk, This could be the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Because I believe you need a friend. I believe you must be terribly lonely. In your Trolley Folly post, you painted this sad self-image of a suitcase-lugging, colleague-bugging conference interpreter who had to wrestle through the work day. What...
Count Smorltalk asks the question: is this the end of the road? When I was little, nobody had had the genius idea of adding wheels to suitcases. I reckon that the late dawning realisation that you could add wheels to bags is a prime example of linguistic determinism: we called it luggage because we lugged it. End of. I was lucky to...