ITIA Translation Competition 2023

Calling all budding translators! Translation Competition for Secondary School Students This hugely successful translation competition for secondary school students in Ireland is now in its 8th year! Students are asked to translate an excerpt from a novel or short story from one of the following languages into English: Chinese (Mandarin),…

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Red T founder, Maya Hess, to be honoured by the ITIA

Join us in conferring Honorary Membership on Maya Hess, founder of Red T Maya Hess is the founder and CEO of Red T, a non-profit organisation that advocates worldwide on behalf of translators and interpreters in high-risk settings. As a court-appointed forensic linguist, she has provided language support and expert…

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Stress Management

A webinar by Sophie Llewellyn Smith Stress is generally recognised as affecting professional interpreters’ performance as well as interpreting students' exam results. Candidates often fail the European Institutions' accreditation test or competitive exam due to exam nerves. More seriously, a failure to manage stress in the long term can lead…

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Introduction to AntConc 4: Tools and strategies for creating and analyzing corpora in specialized domains

A webinar with Prof. Laurence Anthony AntConc is perhaps the world's most widely used desktop toolkit for creating and analyzing corpus data on Windows, MacOS and Linux machines. It has been downloaded over 2.5 million times by researchers, teachers, learners, translators and editors in over 140 countries, and is continually…

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