Curso teórico-práctico de interpretación

Breaking News English

Breaking News English :FREE, Ready-to-Print EFL/ESL Lesson Plans on Current Events / English News Lessons. --  Simple News in 7 LEVELS That's Easier for English Students to Understand 

¡Gracias, Gabriela Coronel!

10 Language Mistakes Kids Make that Are Actually Pretty Smart

Little kids make such cute mistakes when they talk. We know they’re still learning the language, so we tolerate their errors and chuckle at how funny they sound. Behind that chuckle is the assumption that the kids are getting it wrong because they just don’t know the rules yet. In fact, kids’ mistakes show they know a lot more about the rules than we think. The mistakes are evidence of very smart hypotheses the kids are forming from the limited data they’ve been given so far. Here are 10 really smart language mistakes that kids make. Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/153742#ixzz2DziGVCvT --brought to you by mental_floss!

Self-Promotion: The Do's and Don'ts

If you haven’t been self-promoting or marketing your freelance business, you’re missing out on a lot of opportunities.
In today’s noisy world, you need to put your self and your brand out there for people to discover you.
Competition for attention is a tough battle. It’s the reason why people actually spend money on advertising platforms. It’s why companies invest in campaigns and marketing what-nots. They need to put their names out there for their target audience to realize that they exist.
The good news is that you don’t have to spend money to market yourself. You’ve got the internet on your side, as it offers cost-free ways to market yourself and your freelance business.
But there’s a fine line between self-promotion and contributing to the noise. There are certain self-promotion do’s and don’ts that you need to keep in mind to avoid losing potential leads and making people angry.
Let’s take at these self-promotion do’s and don’ts today.

English Style Guide: A handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission

This Style Guide is intended primarily for English-language authors and translators, both in-house and freelance, working for the European Commission. But now that so many texts in and around the EU institutions are drafted in English by native and nonnative speakers alike, its rules, reminders and handy references aim to serve a wider readership as well.

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¿El lenguaje tiene sexo?

Interesante artículo sobre sexo, género e incompetencia verbal.
¿El lenguaje tiene sexo?

Those Incredible Interpreters

Interpreting is one of the most difficult linguistic skills

Published on September 15, 2011 by Francois Grosjean, Ph.D. in Life as a Bilingual

 

Highly recommended! 

Jay Walker on the world's English mania

Very illustrative on the Chinese need to learn English.
Thank you, NdeT.org's mate Alejandro G.!

Don't insist on English

At TEDxDubai, longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan asks a provocative question: Is the world's focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? (For instance: what if Einstein had to pass the TOEFL?) It's a passionate defense of translating and sharing ideas.

You can read the interactive transcript. 

About Patricia Ryan

Patricia Ryan has spent the past three-plus decades teaching English in Arabic countries -- where she has seen vast cultural (and linguistic) change.

Happy International Translation Day!

Dear Colleague, this is for you.

For everyone who has had to explain to their family and friends that translating is actually a job;

For everyone who has read an instruction book, not to find out how to use an appliance, but to see how it’s been translated;

For everyone who has worked until 3 am and got up at 6 am to review the translation and deliver it by the agreed deadline;

For everyone who, when having dinner with friends, has broken into a conversation, taken out a notebook and pen and said “Sorry, but would you repeat what you just said so that I can jot it down?”;

For everyone who has re-read a translation they themselves have done and thought “Did I really write this??”, for better or for worse;

For everyone who has worked day and night, Saturday and Sunday, every public holiday and heard their friends say that “translators have it easy because they work from home”;

For everyone who constantly hears people say “I learnt English at school. Maybe I should try being a translator, too, like you”;

For everyone who has woken up suddenly in the night, having remembered a word and smacked themselves on the head and said “Bollocks, I should have used ‘incognito’ instead of ‘unknown’”;

For everyone who has been working with me…

 … Happy International Translation Day!

Quality

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
John Ruskin - English art critic, social thinker, author, poet and artist.

Aranceles de traducción para todo el país (FAT - Federación Argentina de Traductores)

Conscientes de la importancia que tiene para todo el país la adopción de un criterio uniforme para la determinación de los honorarios profesionales por traducciones, la FAT ha consensuado un esquema de honorarios mínimos que rigen en el ámbito de la República Argentina y que se puede ver aquí.

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Presentación

SI - Servicios Lingüísticos intenta ser un nexo entre distintas lenguas mediante servicios de traducción, interpretación y capacitación.

En este blog encontrarás principalmente dos secciones:

• Traducción e interpretación (T&I)
• Capacitación

Esperamos que estas páginas te resulten de utilidad. Nos gustaría verte seguido por acá. Cordialmente.

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