English Unit, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva

📢 United Nations is now accepting applications for its recruitment examination for temporary/contractual English editors
DGACM United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia - ESCWA
https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=172084&Lang=en-US
The deadline for applications is 26 January 2022!!

The University of Geneva is organising a free French-to-English translation workshop for native English speakers on 25 November at 6 pm at Uni Mail. Spots are limited, so if you would like to participate, please register by sending an email to [email protected].

Did you know the United Nations has a Section in New York ❓

A competitive examination to fill current & future translator positions will take place soon.

Check if you are eligible & apply by 15 August.

Don't miss your chance❗️
▶️ https://bit.ly/UNexam-GermanTranslation

The English Unit would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Susan Pickford!

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/translation-prize?fbclid=IwAR2m7jfx5MuTAEMFgO4_DkIoAsNmPemWYxH5J5TkRCMZWldrcFfCmJWDFCg

World Literature Today Translation Prize World Literature Today Student Translation Prize A Contest for Translation Studies Students The 2021 prizewinners will be selected and announced in May 2021. Who can enter? The contest is open to all students enrolled in translation studies programs. What can they submit? An entry is a prose piece o...

Bonjour! Profitez bien de cette journée spéciale!

Interpreting in the midst of Covid-19: “Because personal protective equipment is in short supply in hospitals across the country, few clinical interpreters are able to work in person with Covid-19 patients, as they normally would. Most language interpretation is done remotely. Communicating through an interpreter doubles or triples the length of a medical exchange, adding new confusion and anxiety to situations that are already stressful for patients and their families. And the conditions of Covid-19 care — the rapid pace at which cases evolve, the desire of hospital workers to limit the duration of their exposure to patients — create numerous obstacles to effective interpretation.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/covid-coronavirus-medical-translators.html

When Coronavirus Care Gets Lost in Translation Medical interpreters must now work remotely, multiplying the challenges for front-line doctors and non-English-speaking patients.

Congrats to the Grads of 2019!! 🎓🍾🎉

In the latest edition of the FTI's e-bulletin, Mathilde Fontanet talks about literary translation in the age of machine translation:

“Machine translation can, of course, provide us with a preliminary version that can be reworked. And yet, even if the words, and perhaps even entire sentences, can be reused, it seems dangerous to me in this particular context to process slivers of language without listening to their harmonics, their timbre, their echo. No one would enjoy reading a text with a disembodied voice, like that of a GPS. And I’m afraid that working with an initial, inert version may hinder the translator’s creativity. Machine translation produces impressive results, but I believe there may be a risk to using it in a form of translation in which the human and emotional dimension is of the utmost importance.”

See the full interview at: https://www.unige.ch/fti/ebulletin/entretien/entretien-3

A peek into the interpreter’s notebook at the opening ceremony of the One Trial - Four Languages exhibition at Uni Mail

English Unit staff member, David Jemielity, will be giving a keynote lecture on 27 September at the 2019 Mediterranean and Translators Meeting in Split, Croatia

Translation and writing in a corporate environment METM19 keynote – David Jemielity

Thanks to all the students and staff who came out to the English Unit’s annual welcome meeting and potluck!

Another translation fail spotted by one of our German unit colleagues! 🤣

Translation fail spotted by one of our alumni in Gori, Georgia 😅

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/15/why-its-time-to-stop-worrying-about-the-decline-of-the-english-language?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1u0OR_Z9IhwPCsFQxipUqhrRjrG1DFOzmKED30rH-5EhVPrVUu94gxG98 =1565872225

Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language The long read: People often complain that English is deteriorating under the influence of new technology, adolescent fads and loose grammar. Why does this nonsensical belief persist?

5 October 2019 IAMLADP Universities Contact Group, FTI - University of Geneva EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction surveys and public consultations.

Genders in languages
Source: http://ow.ly/tOTF50uM4s7

English Unit, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva updated their website address.

To start the week!
Pour commencer la semaine ! 🤩☺️

Teresa Cabré’s talk on terminology at the service of languages

Opinion | Why Mistranslation Matters Would history have been different if Khrushchev had used a better interpreter?

You're never too old to become fluent in a foreign language Coverage of a new study suggests it's impossible to become fluent in a foreign language after age ten. But that's deeply misleading – and not what the study found.

The dangers of word-for-word translation 🤔😱

Le français est une langue magique.

Professor Lance Hewson’s last lecture. Thank you, Lance, for everything you have done. We wish you all the best for the future! 🎵

Congratulations once more to the FTI’s Marie-Hélène Girard for a third-place finish in the Swiss national final of Ma Thèse en 180 secondes. One more prize to add to her second-place finish and people’s choice award at the Geneva final 🏆🏅 Way to go Marie-Hélène!

Une doctorante de la FTI primée à la finale de Ma Thèse en 180 secondes - Actualités - UNIGE Une doctorante de la FTI primée à la finale de Ma Thèse en 180 secondesDoctorante à la Faculté de traduction et d’interprétation, Marie-Hélène Girard a remporté le troisième prix de la finale suisse du concours Ma Thèse en 180 secondes, qui s’est déroulée le jeudi 7 juin à Fribourg...

Marketing Translations: How Creative Is a Translator Allowed to Be? Marketing translations come with two challenges: Social Media has revolutionized communication and content marketing is currently all the rage. And that means a whole lot for your marketing translations. They are not only about mirroring your message in a different language anymore. They also need

How bilinguals process language: Psychologists show that bilinguals regulate their native language when reading in the second language Psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists show that bilinguals who are highly proficient in their second language, such as international students who have come to the United States to pursue higher education, can not only overcome the difficulty that being immersed in their non-native language imp...

Congratulations to the FTI's Marie-Hélène, who won the people's choice award and placed second in the public speaking contest “Ma thèse en 180 secondes”!

MT180: Marie-Hélène Girard - 2ème Prix du jury et Prix du public Finale locale du concours 2018 "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" – Université de Genève – 12 avril 2018 Marie-Hélène Girard, Faculté de Traduction et Interprétation...

Here’s why Google Translate will never outsmart the human mind I guess I should never have signed up to be a simultaneous translator (or interpreter) – in both directions – at an EU-sponsored conference. The silver lining of Brexit is that I will probably never be called on again to translate not just a rapid-fire French speaker with a penchant for hazy abs...