Jan 20, 2018
Me, an interpreting student, when I have to write a terminology research project on the foundations of offshore wind turbines:
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Me, an interpreting student, when I have to write a terminology research project on the foundations of offshore wind turbines:
Me, waiting for my dissertation supervisor to answer my email:
Only a language student comes back from the pub with their friends, slightly drunk, and thinks: "You know what would be fun to do now? Rosetta Stone!"
My lecturers: "Always be professional! Particularly on social media!! You don't want clients to think that you're not a serious person!"
EU interpreters on Twitter:
*listening to another postgraduate interpreting student giving a presentation and talking about how doing a conference interpreting MA screwed with their mental health*
Me: "lol, same."
All the undergrads who still have a romanticized view of the language industry and think that all you do as an interpreter is travel the world and chill:
Right before Easter break, one of our lecturers surprised us with a giant mock interpreting assignment project that we had to do, and told us to PRINT everything we would take with us on the interpreting job and put it in a folder. I've been working on all sorts of projects for weeks now, but for this project at least there is the one upside that he will have to actually READ EVERYTHING WE PRINT AND PUT IN OUR FOLDERS.
So in case you're wondering if I'm petty enough to actually spend my own money on printing a 26-page feasibility study published by a relevant NGO and a 20-page safety brochure published by the "client" and put that in my folder, then the answer is yes. I absolutely am.
When we, a group of German interpreting students, have to do yet another project on the nuclear industry even though Germany is shutting down all nuclear power stations:
Me, when I'm watching a crime series where they get the one constable who "did a bit of that language in school" to interpret and translate documents: