There is something really special about matching the speed, voice intonation, emphasis, terminology and meaning of a speaker, especially if it is such a challenge that at times you don’t know where you’re getting the words from, possibly not just finding them in your brain, but pulling them up from your toes, in a manner of speaking. You feel the adrenalin rushing through your body, you’re almost in some kind of trance, and you feel as one with the speaker.
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Bloody Geniuses!
Posted in Linguistics, tagged brain, cerebral, coen, coenraad, conference, congrestolk, congrestolken, conrad, geniuses, heijdemann, interpreter, interpreting, koen, koenraad, rendering, simultaneous, tolk, tolk-vertaler, tolkonline.com, translation, translator, vertaler on 24 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pedantic or Professional?
Posted in Linguistics, tagged accurate, grammar, language, Linguistics, pedant, pedantic, precise, professional, spelling on 7 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a language professional, I often find it difficult to separate my work from my private life. As a dedicated interpreter and translator who is constantly striving to perfect his own use of language, and who is often called upon to correct his colleagues’ translations (we all make mistakes, after all), I have difficulty not [...]
