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am 24.06.2007 von http://transblawg.eu

What other blogs are saying:

1. srah of srah blah blah introduces the fifth Language Week, which is a week when some people blog in languages they don't usually blog in (in my case this would be any language other than English or German).

2. Mark Liberman at Language Log, taken up by Steve at languagehat, has been discussing the Arabic proficiency of U.S. Foreign Service officials. He quotes Passport Blog:

A 3/3 level of proficiency is virtually useless for conducting serious business in Arabic. The use of the word “fluency” here is deeply misleading: Someone with a 3/3 would not be able, for instance, to do simultaneous translation of a meeting, and would struggle to translate complicated documents. Anything technical, legal, or politically sensitive would not be something you'd want a 3/3 to handle. For that, you'd need someone closer to a 5 or better yet, a native speaker with a large vocabulary and superior writing skills in two languages. Such people are rare, because the amount of investment and time it takes to reach such rarified heights is more lucratively deployed elsewhere.

In the languagehat comments, bulbul (scroll down for nice photos of bulbuls) points out that translation and interpreting are skills that don't automatically follow from proficiency, of whatever level:

That Passport blog Mark Liberman links to is a fine example of popular misconceptions concerning translation and interpreting. Not everyone who is fluent is capable of translating and very few people are capable of interpreting. Both of those skills take training …

Misinterpreting / Fehlerhaftes Dolmetschen

Transblawg / Just a note that both Language Log and languagehat have entries about poor court interpreting and its effects for the defendant. Bill Poser in Language Log talks about people who can speak two languages but don’t know anything about interpretin…

German-English technical translators weblog

Transblawg / Translationfound is the occasional weblog of Gisela Strauss, a technical translator in Munich. I t describes itself as follows: Translation Found is a loosely typed bilingual - English-German language blog, discussing language, translation and locali…

Language blogs/Sprachblogs

Transblawg / eduFire has an entry on The Top 21 Language Bloggers on the Web (via languagehat). This is about learning languages and presenting a multitude of languages, rather than about linguistics, so Language Log isnt there, for example. Its also a bi…

Düsseldorf Language and Law conference/Konferenz zu Recht und Sprache in Düsseldorf

Transblawg / The Language and Law Conference will be held from May 17 to 19, 2006 in Duesseldorf, Germany. It is an interdisciplinary joint-venture of the University of Duesseldorf and the University of California, Los Angeles. The full programme should be onlin…

Language teaching petition UK / Unterschriftenliste: Fremdsprachen in der Hochschule, Großbritannien

Transblawg / This petition speaks for itself. Bradford University has an excellent record of teaching translation and interpreting. I remember the days when Bradford and Salford were the first to integrate at-sight translation and other practical uses of lan…

Links

Transblawg / Datenbank zu EU-Kaufrecht in sieben Sprachen CISG in seven languages Two professors have developed a database in German, English, French, Spranish, Italian, Dutch and Chinese. Once you have selected the article, you can compare up to seven languages…

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