Tag - training

Technology and the interpreting profession: Be part of the conversation in Hong Kong

“Interpreting and Technology: Interplay and Transformation” is taking place on 7-9 December 2022 The hybrid conference organised by the Hong Kong Baptist University promises to be an exciting event for interpreters, both established and aspiring; interpreter trainers; researchers; industry watchers; and anybody who is curious about the...

“Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting”, a review

  Count Smorltalk takes a look at the 2nd Edition of Gillies’ seminal work     I was contemplating sending these notes into Mme Blog as proof that I had read the book I was asked to review. And I thought I might leave it at that. But I had a niggling feeling I’d get sent away with a flea in my ear and told to do the review properly, so I have...

The Jury’s Back. With a Letter

Dear Candidate, So you want to be an interpreter. Great, we need more good interpreters. That’s why we got up at an ungodly hour on the weekend, that’s why we’re spending the day in a classroom that we knew would be either overheated or Arctic, that’s why we’re imbibing inordinate amounts of tepid coffee from the machine downstairs...