Anxiety Fighting Tips from a Skydiver

In my early days as a linguist, consecutive interpreting was all I did and all I was comfortable doing. That all changed one morning. I showed up for what I thought was going to be business as usual and proceeded to greet the speaker I would be interpreting. We shook hands and engaged in casual […]

The interpreter-friendly speaker

Here is a compilation of simple yet effective tips that will make you an interpreter-friendly speaker. The idea is to make presenters aware of the subtleties involved in delivering a talk in a multilingual context. The list was put together with the help of Dr. Debora Diniz, a  renowned Anthropologist and world class presenter, who […]