What do you think is the most important skill a conference interpreter learns through experience and not at university? Punctuality? Well, that’s a skill we learn at university. Let’s remember the age-old mantra repeated by almost every professor in conference interpreting departments: “Everyone else can be late for a meeting, including the speakers. The meeting […]
It’s true that the pandemic initially took away some things we never knew we took for granted. The list is long. Now that we’ve been through the thick of it, let’s be honest: we do enjoy some of the pros that came with it! The top of the list has to be virtual events. During […]
This must be the most common question a conference interpreter gets from the participants they talk to. We know that there are many people of all professions in the business world, academia, law or medicine who want to improve their language skills or learn a new language. Here are some of our practical tips to […]
Have you ever calculated how many hours a week you spend in meetings? Perhaps you count these hours when you have no time left for your regular work due to many scheduled or unplanned last minute meetings. How come you often feel exhausted and overwhelmed by uncompleted tasks although the purpose of team meetings is […]
The target audience of this blog post is meeting organizers who have not worked with interpreters before. There are tricks in every trade; nowadays we all pay more attention to the subtle points. For example, you may have seen people who specify the temperature of the milk when ordering coffee. Let me try to explain […]
The pandemic has forced the language services industry to change at an unprecedented speed. Companies which have always provided interpreting services and equipment with the same technology and skills have found themselves in a whole new world that revolves around remote interpretation. Many companies and institutions that organize meetings began to request new services from […]
As a result of the pandemic, more and more arbitration hearings were held online. After an initial period of doubt and confusion, many parties realized that virtual arbitration hearings have many advantages over face-to-face arbitration. Online arbitration is more practical and less costly, especially in cases involving multilingual parties in several countries. The parties can […]
As conference interpreters, we attended hundreds of virtual meetings and listened to thousands of speakers since the beginning of the pandemic. We worked at virtual meetings in different formats and scales such as webinars, focus groups, press conferences, in-house trainings and product launches. We heard speakers who everyone applauded as well as speakers who lost […]