TED Talks: Don't Insist on English

Patricia Ryan gives a thought provoking talk on the wide spread of English and how this could be affecting the spreading of ideas form other languages.

You can change the subtitles to Korean, Spanish, Chinese and many other languages. Great to test your interpreting (and translating) skills.

Telephone Interpreting

An example of telephone interpreting.

Telephone interpreting at work from Voltaire on Vimeo.

The video below will give you an idea of the type of test candidates to European Institutions must undertake.


Finally a video on video interpreting.

Law, Police and Justice - Resources for Interpreters and Translators

• Australian Human Rights Commission:  Speeches, videos, legal speeches, stories of Australia audio files
• Cambridge Police public sector scenarios
• Cambridge Police Resources related to working with interpreters
• Community Interpreting
• Courts_Queensland Virtual Tours
• Courts-Tasmania virtual tour of a courtroom 
• Interpretar en el Tribunal de Justicia de la EU-Video
• Legal Interpretion Resources and Role-plays, Vigo University  
• Linkterpreting  
• ORCIT Online Resources for Conference Interpreter Training 
• Police Interpretation Role-Plays, Universidad de Vigo
• Recursos de Traduccion y Redaccion de la Comision Europea  
• Remote Interpreting
• Terminology and Documentation Resources 
• EULITA conference papers: legal interpreting & translating presentations