“The internationalisation of English has begun to provoke a two-fold enervation. In many societies, imported English, with its necessarily synthetic, ‘pre-packaged’ semantic field, is eroding the autonomy of the native language-culture. [Read more…]
Félix DE AZÚA, sobre lengua, educación y política.
UN TIEMPO PARA RESISTIR Y OTRO PARA RECORDAR
Todos los recién nacidos crecen en un mundo que se acaba de crear para ellos, un abigarrado paraíso sin serpiente. En cuanto tienen un mínimo uso de razón descubren cosas, asuntos y personas que son tan nuevos como ellos mismos, descubren reflejos en los muros, figuras que se parecen como dos gotas de agua, secuencias de efectos, el día y la noche. El mundo es siempre un mundo de estreno para los recién llegados.
High-level Interpretation
Dick FLEMING, former EU staff interpreter, reminisces about some of the high-level EU meetings he interpreted at during the 1980s and 1990s, work which was sometimes tough, often fascinating and- with hindsight- immensely rewarding. He describes the interpreting arrangements for such meetings then and now and suggests that young interpreters -particularly those with two active languages- should certainly not assume they will never have the opportunity to provide interpretation at such meetings.
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