The amazing brains of the real-time interpreters One morning this summer I paid a visit to the sole United Nations agency in London. The headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) sits on the southern bank of the Thames, a short distance upstream from the Houses of Parliament. As I approached, I saw that a ship’s prow, sculpted in metal, was grafted like a nose to the ground floor of this otherwise bland building. Inside I met a dozen or so mostly female IMO translators. I walked upstairs to a glass-fronted booth, where I prepared to witness something both absolutely remarkable and utterly routine. Let’s unpick what she did that morning and itemise its components. As the delegate spoke, Pinkney had to make sense of a message composed in one language while simultaneously constructing and articulating the same message in another tongue. Intriguing region Neuroscientists have explored language for decades and produced scores of studies on multilingual speakers. Simultaneous interpretation often evokes a sense of drama.
In Language Classrooms, Students Should Be Talking We have gotten it wrong, really wrong, in the language classroom. Historically, the teacher stood at the front of the classroom spouting details of grammar. Students sat at desks placed in straight rows directed toward the teacher and madly took notes. They later filled out worksheets and tried to memorize the content presented by the all-knowing educator. What's missing? The first step toward teaching students to speak a language well is understanding proficiency. If the teacher is always speaking, the students are not. Through classroom observation, I have seen that some teachers are much more comfortable letting their students take center stage than others. Strategies for Focusing on Student Proficiency Begin each day with an interpersonal speaking activity.Require students to use the target language in class.Eliminate activities in which you ask individual students questions. 5 Interpersonal Activities to Get You Started
FeedBack from the Field ... the Interpreter Speaks ... by Anastasia Antoniou MBA Welcome! FeedBack from the Field ... the Interpreter Speaks ... will be a collection of real stories from interpreters - an interpreter is someone who understands at least two languages and acts as a conduit between two or more people in order to facilitate communication. This clarification of the message, from language A to language B, is interpretation. An interpretation can take place in many settings and set of circumstances - anywhere where there are at least two people who want to communicate and need a third individual to skillfully utilize their command of both present languages in order to facilitate clear and accurate communication. Are you a Conference / Court / Business / Medical / Community / Retail / General / Travel Guide Interpreter? This book is a way to share stories from interpreters, by interpreters and for interpreters. Be Included .... ..... Tell us your story. Well, risks and challenges are really, for the most part, in the eye of the beholder.
Learning a second language makes you more creative in your first Over the past decade, reams of research by economists has been devoted to investigating why they failed to foresee the financial crisis, among other things economics has recently gotten wrong. This soul-searching has produced new theories, models, and policies, but it hasn’t fully repaired the reputation of the field. As time passes and the effects of the crisis fade, people still find it hard to trust economists. The latest effort to improve public opinion of economics comes from Jean Tirole, winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 2014. The Frenchman’s latest book, Economics for the Common Good (Princeton University Press), is a 560-page manifesto on how the profession can get back on track. The timing of the book—published in English this month after its original release in French last year—is pertinent. Amid a general backlash against “elites,” economists must prove their worth. He also isn’t afraid to turn the tables. An ex-post rationalization is also populism. Is this likely?
Daniel Gile Daniel Gile (* 1948) ist ein französischer Übersetzer und Konferenzdolmetscher. Er lehrt als Universitätsprofessor an der École Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs (ESIT) der Universität Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle. Leben[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten] Daniel Gile studierte Mathematik, bevor er sich einem Übersetzer- und Dolmetscherstudium zuwandte. 1984 promovierte er im Fach Japanisch mit einer Dissertation zur Ausbildung von Übersetzerberufen (La formation aux métiers de la traduction japonais-français: problèmes et méthodes) am Pariser Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO). 1987 begann er dort eine außerordentliche Professur. Forschung[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten] Daniel Giles Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf der Ausbildung von Dolmetschern, Übersetzern und wissenschaftlichem Nachwuchs. Sonstige Aktivitäten und Mitgliedschaften[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten] Publikationen (Auswahl)[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
The amazing benefits of being bilingual (BBC) In a cafe in south London, two construction workers are engaged in cheerful banter, tossing words back and forth. Their cutlery dances during more emphatic gesticulations and they occasionally break off into loud guffaws. They are discussing a woman, that much is clear, but the details are lost on me. It’s a shame, because their conversation looks fun and interesting, especially to a nosy person like me. But I don’t speak their language. Out of curiosity, I interrupt them to ask what they are speaking. Was it easy to learn so many languages? “Yes, it’s normal,” he laughs. He’s right. Multilingualism has been shown to have many social, psychological and lifestyle advantages. At the current rate, half our languages will be extinct by the end of the century Could it be that the human brain evolved to be multilingual – that those who speak only one language are not exploiting their full potential? I am sitting in a laboratory, headphones on, looking at pictures of snowflakes on a computer.
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Bilingual kids have multiple advantages, no matter what the languages are We live in a world of great linguistic diversity. More than half of the world’s population grows up with more than one language. There are, on the other hand, language communities that are monolingual, typically some parts of the English-speaking world. In this case, bilingualism or multilingualism can be seen as an extraordinary situation – a source of admiration and worry at the same time. On a smaller scale, we all know families where bilingualism or multilingualism are the norm, because the parents speak different languages or because the family uses a language different from that of the community around them. How difficult is it for a child to grow up in such an environment? Noses for grammar Clearly we are talking here of a range of different skills: social, linguistic and cognitive. But they also have linguistic skills, some very obvious, such as understanding and using words and expressions in different languages. Is it worth it? Code-switching is cool
Danica Seleskovitch Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Danica Seleskovitch est née à Paris le et morte à Cahors le (à 79 ans). Interprète de conférence, elle fonda, entre autres, la Théorie interprétative de la traduction. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Danica Seleskovitch[1] est née d’une mère française, issue d’une famille de la bourgeoisie du Nord et d’un père serbe, philosophe, appartenant à une lignée d’intellectuels yougoslaves. Depuis l’enfance, elle maîtrise plusieurs langues : d’abord le français, sa langue maternelle (chez les Seleskovitch, on a toujours parlé français) ; elle parle l’allemand comme une autochtone, et elle connaît le serbo-croate, la langue de son père. Dès son arrivée à Paris, en 1946, elle s'inscrit à la Sorbonne, où elle entreprend simultanément deux licences, d’allemand et d’anglais. Son père meurt au printemps 1950. Dès le début de sa carrière d'interprète de conférence, elle réfléchit à son métier et à la façon dont le sens passe en interprétation.