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  • 20: We Mean Business With Judy Jenner & Ewan Menzies

    Jonathan and the two Alexes have invited interpreting and translation entrepreneur Judy Jenner, co-author of "The Entrepreneurial Linguist" alongside business development expert and CEO of Castle Strategies Ewan Menzies to talk shop. In this episode we really get down to business!

    Both Judy and Ewan share their insights into what makes clients tick, and discuss with the Troublesome Terps how to assert your service's worth and be the best entrepreneurial interpreter you can be.

    Special Guests: Ewan Menzies and Judy Jenner.

    Links:

    • The Entrepreneurial Linguist by Judy Jenner
  • Set up a free strategy call with Ewan
  • Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar | Goodreads
    • — Information and reviews
    1 hr 11 min
  • 19: 2017, A Troublesome Year In Review

    The three troublemakers sit down to look back at a rather troublesome year. We talk about the episodes we put out in 2017 and about trends and developments in the interpreting space. Plus: The very first edition of our Tops and Flops Awards!

    (Photo by Ariel Besagar on Unsplash)

    Links:

    • Slator: What’s up with All Those Translation Earpieces?
  • 7 Things a Chief Interpreter Wishes You Knew - Ewandro Magalhaes
  • Ewan Menzies: What is the point in a 30+ page business plan that gets shelved by the end of January?
  • Forbes: Ili Wearable Translator Review
  • The Tech'Savvy Interpreter: A First Look at the Lingmo Translate One2One Earpiece - YouTube
    • 1 hr 13 min
  • 18: UTIC Live Webinar - Machine Interpreting Revisited

    Revisiting the subject of our very first episode, we will fulfil our brief to cover the topics that keep interpreters up at night. In this webinar, we tackle the controversial topic of Machine Interpreting. “Universal translation” apps, gizmos and gadgets from small startups and even heavyweights like Google have been mushrooming recently. Many people in our industry are wondering whether it is only a matter of time before interpreters made of flesh and blood will be replaced by machines. Jonathan and the two Alexanders confront the ghosts of interpreting past, present and future and give their two cents (or pence, plus VAT) on how technological progress will impact professional interpreters.

    The video recording of this episode is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjGU_lmXFKo.

    Links:

    • The video version of the webinar on YouTube
    1 hr 7 min
  • 17: Mental Health For Interpreters

    Jonathan and the two Alexes have invited Justine Mason, formerly a mental health nurse and currently senior lecturer in health and social care at Wrexham Glyndwr University. She has completed a part-time MA in translation studies and written a dissertation about public service interpreters in health settings, particularly emotional difficulties and coping strategies. Justine and the Troublesome Terps discuss the mental health that interpreters can face in their profession.

    Special Guest: Justine Mason.

    57 min
  • 16: The Social Media Muppet

    The three troublemakers have invited interpreting student Hugo Menendez to discuss social media and how interpreters should or should not use it.

    Special Guest: Hugo Menendez.

    Links:

    • Hugo's YouTube video
    — Conference Interpreting: confidentiality and the use of social media. #1ntHUSH is an online initiative for conference interpreters aimed at raising awareness of potential breaches in confidentiality when using social media and promoting adherence to the code of conduct.
    Concept & presentation by Hugo Menendez, Roman Lososovskij, Bayan Abughaida and Chieko Kehoe.
    1 hr
  • 15: Remote interpreting with a cat on your lap

    The three troublemakers discuss the ins and outs of the different kinds of remote interpreting, sharing their own on-the-job experience along the way.

    Links:

    • Why I only offer on-site interpreting
    — It is a trend that is both incredibly promising and incredibly controversial. Remote interpreting, where the interpreter can be located absolutely anywhere and yet still interpret for your event via a phone call or online platform, has become big business and is set to grow even more. So why would any consultant interpreter not jump at the opportunities it offers?
  • The Future of Interpreting & Translating – Professional Precariat or Digital Elite? – Dolmetscher wissen alles
    • — Interpreters being paid by the minute (or hour) nowadays does not seem as inconceivable as it used to be. Technically speaking, small worktime and payment units have become easier to handle, thus more probable to be applied. The question arises if working and being paid on a micro or macro level, as the two extremes, bring about any special advantages or disadvantages for interpreters/translators and their customers – a question I would like to share some thoughts with you about, paying special attention to the information and knowledge aspect.
  • Remote Interpreting:
 Feeling Our Way into the Future
    • — New communications technologies make interpreting available where it wasn’t in the past. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the way we will work remotely, because what’s going on is game changing and shaking our profession from top to bottom.
  • Interpreting Delivery Platforms: Should You Get on the Bandwagon?
    • — In this guest blog post, Hélène Pielmeier, a Senior Analyst at Common Sense Advisory, shares some valuable insights into interpreting delivery platforms (IDPs) and why interpreters should take a serious look at them. 
  • Remote Simultaneous Interpreting: Options and Standards - Interpreters Division
    • — Even though experiments with Remote Simultaneous Interpretation (RSI) have been taking place since the early 1970s, it is only relatively recently that we have heard more and more about this type of interpretation.
  • Technology and Interpreting: Three Questions on Every Interpreter’s Mind
    • 1 hr 1 min
  • 14: Roberta Barroca delivers the golden package (2)

    Roberta is not only a Portuguese/English interpreter, but she also experiences the most outrageous things in the interpreting space! From peacocks in the booth, to talking to her younger self, falling in love with Frank Sinatra and what an eject button would do for her sanity. For your comfort and safety, we have split the episode in two parts that are published simultaneously for the curious ones among you!

    All the links to Roberta's articles can be found in part one of this episode: http://www.troubleterps.com/14

    Special Guest: Roberta Barroca.

    26 min
  • 13: Roberta Barroca delivers the golden package (1)

    Roberta is not only a Portuguese/English interpreter, but she also experiences the most outrageous things in the interpreting space! From peacocks in the booth, to talking to her younger self, falling in love with Frank Sinatra and what an eject button would do for her sanity. For your comfort and safety, we have split the episode in two parts that are published simultaneously for the curious ones among you!

    Special Guest: Roberta Barroca.

    Links:

    • Fedex - the golden package TV commercial
  • Roberta on Twitter
    • — English-Brazilian Portuguese interpreter. I LOVE what I do, I do what I LOVE. Interpreting isn't only my profession, it's a calling.Proud ATA and AIIC member.
  • The D.I.V.A. Interpreters
    • — What the newbie didn’t know was that some professionals with countless booth hours develop the Delusional Interpreter’s Vain Arrogance (DIVA) syndrome. I explained to him what the syndrome was all about and reassured him it wasn’t personal. Our conversation went kind of like this…
  • OCID – The Overwhelmed Conference Interpreter Disorder (a satirical article NOT to be taken seriously)
    • — Are you a conference interpreter? Do you have nightmares about being late to assignments due to traffic or the alarm not going off? Do you suffer from cold sweats and tachycardia in the booth? You might be suffering from the “Overwhelmed Conference Interpreter Disorder” (hereinafter OCID). However, don’t panic just yet because the Department of Interpreters’ Wellness has carried out a promising new research and issued new guidelines for the treatment of OCID.
  • A Hologram, a Peacock or Sinatra – What Kind of Interpreter Are You?
    • — Simultaneous interpreters should definitely get hazard pay for working in a confined space. After all, in the booth we are exposed to our boothmate’s cold and also to some very different personalities, up close and personal. Throughout almost ten years of interpreting professionally, I’ve had the chance to observe my colleagues’ funny and not­so­funny traits. Below, you’ll find a list of some characters I’ve had the pleasure or misfortune of working with…
  • My Boothmate: A Love Story (On good booth manners)
    • — “Would you like to sit on the right or left side of the booth?” – he asked. That sounded like music to my ears and I immediately knew this was love at first sight. I said it didn’t really matter so we just randomly chose our seats and started talking before the conference started. After about 15 minutes of getting to know each other, we started preparing for the assignment. As we had both arrived about one hour in advance, we still had some good 45 minutes to prepare.
  • My Boothmate: The Heartbreak. (On bad booth manners)
    • — Traffic was particularly bad that Monday morning but because I always leave very early for assignments, I managed to arrive about 40 minutes prior to the opening remarks. My boothmate hadn’t arrived yet so I sent him a text message to let him know I was already in the booth settling in.
  • Letter of forgiveness and gratitude to my old self as an interpreter
    • — Dear old me,
    Today it’s been exactly 9 years and 7 months since I earned my certificate as an interpreter. As I look back at my career, I feel very pleased with all I have achieved and learned but also remember some low points for which now is time I forgive and thank myself for. Here it goes:
  • The Golden Package
    • — In the 1994 Super Bowl an insightful and inspirational commercial by FedEx (Federal Express at that time) was broadcasted. I had the opportunity to watch it recently in an assignment as an interpreter and immediately found parallels to my profession.
    31 min
  • 12: Trumpslation with Franz Kubaczyk

    Our guest Franz Kubaczyk regularly interprets Donald Trump for German news channels. The two Alexanders have invited him on to discuss the challenges of media interpreting in general and of rendering a difficult speaker into another language.

    Special Guest: Franz Kubaczyk.

    Links:

    • Children interrupt BBC News interview
  • Franz Kubaczyk's website
  • Frank Deja - Simultandolmetscher
  • How Donald Trump Answers A Question
  • Bush to Trump: You can't insult your way to presidency - YouTube
  • Rampensau | Word of the Week
  • BBC NEWS | Europe | Berlusconi jibe sparks EU storm
  • Lost in Trumpslation: An Interview with Bérengère Viennot - Los Angeles Review of Books
  • Trump says the press mangles his “beautiful flowing sentences.” We asked linguists to weigh in. - Vox
  • Revived Nazi-era term 'Luegenpresse' is German non-word of year | Reuters
  • Trump’s full inauguration speech transcript, annotated - The Washington Post
    • 39 min

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Troublesome Terps is a roundtable-style podcast covering topics from the interpreting space and the wider world of languages. The hosts - Jonathan Downie, Alexander Drechsel, Alexander Gansmeier, and…