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• Montagskonferenz

On 17 November 2017, Danielle D’Hayer, Anja Rütten, Joshua Goldsmith, Marcin Feder, Barry Olsen and yours truly organised a panel discussion at the 39th “Translating And The Computer” Conference in London. We discussed many aspects of technology use in interpreting. More info here: http://adrechsel.de/dolmetschblog/tc39

Matt Baird is a US-born and Germany-based translator and copywriter with many interesting stories to tell. Matt also hosts the podcast of the American Translators Association. Tune in to find out how Matt got interested in learning German, about his many hops across the pond and how he almost got sucked into the Washington beltway bubble.

Let's start this episode of LangFM with a little song you may know.

[Music]

Still sound familiar?

The song is "Wake me up" by Swedish DJ and music producer Avicii, a big summer hit in 2013. The version we hear now, however, is by Seo Linn, an Irish band seeking to promote Irish through covers of popular songs and own material. Their version of "Wake me up" on YouTube has garnered over 5,5 million views so far. But let me tell you, Seo Linn are not the only ones having success. Listen to 15-year-old Shannon Bryan:

I found both of these music videos, and many others, on the YouTube channel of TG4 or [tʲeː ɟeː ˈcahəɾʲ], the fourth Irish TV channel serving Irish-language speakers in the whole country. TG4 may place a strong emphasis on music, and they may have broadcast all Harry Potter films dubbed in Irish, but the highest ratings regularly go to… their weather reports:

"The weather girls on TG4 are particularly famous for beingvery beautiful and mystifying creatures, you know? I think, probably, this air of mysticism that surrounds the language for those who've never encountered an Irish speaker is maybe intensified by the fact that there is then this beautiful creature on the screen telling you about the weather in Irish."

Meet Susan Folan. Susan is an EU-accredited conference interpreter for English and Irish.

Links:

• Avicii Vs Lurgan - "Wake Me Up" as Gaeilge - YouTube

This episode was special for me: I had the chance to sit down for a chat with Brian Fox. Just weeks after his retirement, Brian looks back at a long and rich career in SCIC, the interpreting service of the European Commission, both as an interpreter and in various roles in administration. We chat about his personal background, how he got into foreign languages and interpreting, his various roles in SCIC, the development of interpreting (including remote) and the future of our profession.

What do interpreters think about themselves and their profession? Do male and female interpreters have different opinions? And what do conference interpreters think about their public service peers? Italian interpreter and researcher Paola Gentile, PhD has crunched the data and tells us all about it.

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In dieser deutschsprachigen Folge von LangFM begleite ich meinen Gast, Karoline Spießl, auf ihrem Weg vom Studium in Deutschland nach Schottland bis auf die andere Seite des Planeten: Neuseeland, wo Karoline heute als freiberufliche Übersetzerin und Dolmetscherin lebt und arbeitet.

28 September 2016 is a special day. Hundreds of deaf people and dozens of sign language interpreters from all over Europe and even Japan gather in Brussels for a truly unique event: a conference on "Multilingualism and equal rights in the EU: the role of sign languages". This is my report.