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30/10/2007

Whiz kid

A British Indian primary school student has astonished his teachers by learning to speak an incredible 10 languages besides English.Arpan Sharma, 10, speaks French with flair, German with ease and can hold a lengthy conversation in Swahili. His Spanish is quite impressive and so is his Italian. Apart from his mother tongue Hindi, Arpan also speaks Thai, Polish and Chinese and is currently studying the difficult Lugandan language of Uganda [...].

Questa notizia d'estrema importanza ha fatto rapidamente il giro del mondo.

Translation errors may see criminals escape

Alena Linhartova, who has interpreted in Scotland for 20 years, said people were effectively being "pulled off the street" to translate in a growing number of court cases.


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Postato da: BebaManno a 10:24 | link | commenti (1)
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#1   30 Ottobre 2007 - 13:26
 
Court interpreting problems in Scotland/Gerichtsdolmetschermangel in Schottland

[..] The Scotsman reports on court interpreting problems in Scotland: some trials have collapsed because the untrained interpreter was incompetent, and with the influx of foreign nationals into Scotland the problem is increasing (it's presumably a magnified ve [..]
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