Housewife and Interpreter at the Same Time?
A few days ago, BusinessGhana published a short but very interesting article about a new initiative implemented in Seoul, South Korea. Due to the massive immigration of foreign women married to Korean...
View ArticleWhat Do You Know About Sign Language and the Deaf Community?
Until recently, it seems like The Miracle Worker (the story of Helen Keller), was about the first and last I came across the issue of deafness; though impressionable, this fleeting fourth grade reading...
View ArticleBut Words Get in the Way…
Last week, we dove into the world of mistranslations one may encounter in a restaurant setting. Now, while many of the things we read were quite humorous, all in all, the terms were merely just that,...
View ArticleJournalism and Interpretation
One of the key aspects that’s imperative to take into account when traveling around the world are the language barriers that one is faced with. For instance, many journalists have taken advantage of...
View ArticleThe Translation of Humor in Asterix
Asterix was one of my first devotions as a reader. I started reading the comic so young that, even before understanding that the story takes place somewhere in Europe two thousand years ago, I noticed...
View ArticleInterpreters in a Polyglot City
It is not surprising that one of the most populated cities in the world is a melting pot of cultural variety. According to the Department of City Planning of NY, New York has the largest Puerto Rican...
View ArticleMovie Watch: The best translation movies to watch.
There are movies for everything. Whether you want to laugh, cry, be scared, solve mysteries, the movie world has it all. Well, what if you want to watch movies that include the line of work you’re in?...
View ArticleHow to Discern Between a Translator and an Interpreter
When you translate you interpret, and when you interpret you translate, but translation and interpretation are not the same thing. As professions, translation and interpretation have shared procedures...
View ArticleThe Importance of Professional Translators and Interpreters
A few weeks back, I read an article about the controversy concerning an error in the translation of a speech that was given by Diyab Jihad, a Syrian refugee in Uruguay. According to the newspaper that...
View ArticleDoes Communication Require Speaking the Same Language?
A few weeks ago, I played a game whose protagonists were speaking in a language that I did not understand. After doing some research, I found out that the language spoken was fictional (which is why it...
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