European Commission seeks English mother-tongue translators/Englische Übersetzer schwer zu finden
am 10.08.2008 von http://transblawg.eu
The Times reports that there is a disastrous lack of competent translators who are native speakers of English.
A lot of Marie Woolfs article is based on unpublished materials, internal memos and so on. It seems a little bit souped up, although I am sure there is a shortage.
Monty Python could have made something of this:
Potential recruits are being given remedial coaching to bring their abilities up to standard, while a Eurocrat has been dispatched to scour Britain full-time for anyone who can speak foreign languages well, and to encourage schoolchildren to study them.
I wonder if this Eurocrat is in disguise, like a restaurant critic, and how he susses out these secret linguists.
One would like to know more about the following:
Internal commission memos show the standard of Britons who apply to be European Union translators is so dismal that Brussels is taking emergency steps to fill the linguistic gap, including posting recruitment ads …
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