Do you need to bring all your resources with you but you don’t have enough space in the booth?
Do you need to check your glossaries and search your terminology while interpreting?
Tablets will be your best friend!
In his e-book, “The
tablet interpreter”, Alexander Drechsel, staff interpreter at the European Commission, shows us how tablets can make a lot of sense for interpreters, both in the booth and on the go.
They are small and light, they don't take up much space in your bag or in the booth. You can
get the most out of them by using language apps, as well as file management
apps, news reader other than the essentials like mail and the web browser.
In this video, you can see Alexander in action!
To stay updated on latest Alexander's tips and tricks, pls check his blog and Twitter account: ADrechselTwitter/adrechsel
The WOTYfever is starting again. Are we ready for the new Word Of The Year competition? I'm afraid that the Word Of The Year 2013 will be "Twerk" but I definitely prefer "Selfie".
Update - 11 November 2013: Fail, deficit, deadlock, stalemate - 2013’s most used words on the web.
The Global Language Monitor claims ‘404’ - internet code for an online error - as the top word, ‘toxic politics’ the top phrase and Pope Francis the top name in its annual global survey of the English language.
The rankings are based on how many times words, phrases and names were used online throughout the 1.8bn people in the English-speaking world across the last 12 months.
To qualify, the words must have been used at least 25.000 times across all types of media.
19 November 2013 - And the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013 is
‘selfie'! So, when I wrote this post my gut feeling gave me the right response! I'm a good Word detective..