Le Thi Ngoc Mai

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Le Thi Ngoc Mai
• Where do you live?
  • Vietnam
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • I love this job
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • combine
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • research
• We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
  • teamwork
• If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
  • learn step by step. do step by step, until reach your aim
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • the beat

Ibrahim Kamel

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Ibrahim Kamel
• Where do you live?
  • Saudi Arabia
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • I have been graduated from the Faculty of Languages and Translation
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • Accuracy
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • Knowledge
• We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
  • A medical leaflet that was very strange to my experience, but I'm now good at translating such leaflets. It became easy and I sometimes wish to have more of it when I'm tired of other jobs.
• If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
  • Read more in most fields in pair of languages to get better knowledge and to be subject-matter stylistic in your translations.
• Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
  • Al-Qamoos website.
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • Effective self-confidence

Tim Chilcott

Questioin and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Tim Chilcott
• Where do you live?
  • Brighton, England
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • the early study of French, German and Latin in pre-university days instilled a fascination with translation that has never diminished
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • I have a highly developed appreciation of the rhythms in the English language. I think I can detect a false rhythm in Englsh, especially in poetry, at a hundred paces!
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • the feeling that the word or line just translated, sometimes after hours of effort, is the best that could be achieved.
• We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
  • On the basis of some short poems by the Italian poet Leopardi, I decided to translate the whole of his poetry into English, not realising that some of it was not far above turgid bombast. Moral: read widely in your chosen authors/texts before committing yourself to a large-scale project.
• If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
  • Learn that the sounds of language are just as important as the sight, i.e. speaking and hearing words are just as important as seeing and reading them.
• Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
  • Roget's Thesaurus, with all its recent updatings.
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • Alexandra Harris' historical study of the weather in English art and literature was fascinating

Patrick Geddes

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Patrick Geddes
• Where do you live?
  • Wellington, New Zealand
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • I studied languages at university and then lived in Berlin, Germany for 4.5 years. I find the mechanics of translation fascinating. It is a great mental exercise...the closest form of reading.
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • Fluid writing style
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • Discussing translation conundrums with colleagues
• We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
  • Assignments where clients seek 'feedback' on the quality of the translation from internal staff, whose linguistic skills is questionable. Very difficult dynamic to negotiate.
• If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
  • Part of the challenge with being a translator is the ongoing education of clients as to the process involved in translation and the inherent value of the translator in this process
• Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
  • Google images
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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