Biljana Knezevic

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Biljana Knezevic
• Where do you live?
  • Vancouver, Canada
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • I love to make it easier for people to talk to one another
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • Extensive experience
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • Meeting new people and learning about various topics
• 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.
  • I interpreted once for a rehab centre and I had to know all the bones they were mentioning and I had a hard time with it. I decided then to learn anatomy and physiology and now it is much better when I interpret medical issues
• 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?
  • To learn medical terminology and not to avoid it
• 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.
  • proZ
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • A Hundred Years of Solitude