Holiday Readings

I know you are having a rest from your classes or still working on your assignments and homework, but I thought you may be interested in a few sites related to interpreting (and applicable to translating in most cases). Here they are:

• Aventuras de una traductora interprete de Madrid writes about Los Gastos de cancelación.
• Don de Lenguas, radio blog published by the Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación de la Universidad de Salamanca, broadcasts interviews with professional interpreters and translators.
• Bootheando publishes a list of her favourite interpreting/translating blogs in A ♥ for Language Blogs  

 Happy reading/listening!

Preparing For Assignments

Booteando brings to us another excellent post, this time on the preparation interpreters need to undertake before a specialised assignment. She gives Fisheries and Aquaculture as a hypothetical conference topic. Please visit the post even if you can't read Spanish. It will give you a very clear idea of the amount and type of research one must go through. Some of the glossaries are in English (one is Australian).
You can all read the link to a Practical Guide for Professional Conference Interpreters.