Speaking French
am 13.01.2008 von http://transblawg.eu
Certain Ideas of Europe, the Economist blog, under the heading Speaking French: a British terror, has links to clips of Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II speaking French, and Nicolas Sarkozy speaking English.
Your reporter once had a boss in Brussels, many years ago, who came from a generation of Englishmen who learned technically perfect French but believed that it was somehow actorish and unmanly to speak it with anything except a …
French law weblog / Blog auf Englisch über französisches Recht
Transblawg / French-law.net, subtitled French law in English, is a weblog started by Nicolas Jondet at Edinburgh University which describes itself as follows: French-Law.net provides news updates in English on recent developments in French Law, focusing on Intel…
English as lingua franca in Switzerland / Englisch in der Schweiz
Transblawg / swissinfo says: L’anglais a de bonnes chances de devenir LA langue de compréhension dans ce pays multilingue qu’est la Suisse, selon Urs Dürmüller, linguiste du séminaire d’anglais de l’Universit&eacut…
French legal blog / Blog juridique français
Transblawg / Sur Mesure is a French legal weblog by Helene Cohen (via iNews: Lex in the City), which reports: The aim is to give an insight for French and English insurers and other commercial entities into topical issues of English and...…
European Constitution Is Not Dead
Law & Justice / Last Saturday it was revealed that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Jacques Chirac, have devised a Franco-German plan to present the core of the EU constitution to the French and Dutch voters again. The French political class, h…
Bad French in Ossetia/Übersetzungsprobleme in Ossetien
Transblawg / It appears from an article in the Telegraph that something went wrong with the translation of the Russia-Georgia ceasefire agreement from French into Russian. Bernard Kouchner told a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the weekend that the ceas…
Hearing French and transcribing it in English
Transblawg / Joi Ito shows a photo of a screen showing the output from steno machines. However, the ‘scribes’ are said to be hearing French and typing English - just what many clients think translators do when they work! But in the...…
Nothing for Ungood/Ein Amerikaner in Deutschland
Transblawg / John, who wisely remains anonymous apart from his first name, has a weblog I will be visiting again. The subheading, and usual topic, is German quirks from an American perspective. In theory there is nothing wrong with learning England’s v…
BDÜ website in English and French
Transblawg / The website of the German translators association BDÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer) now has English and French versions. I notice all three opening pages start with Search online for interpreters or translators or the equiva…
Diploma / M.A. in legal translation, City University London
Transblawg / City University has recently announced, apparently, that its diploma / M.A. course on legal translation is not starting till autumn 2008. Meanwhile, there are a number of modules that can be taken separately as CPD (The ITI has recently been encourag…
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