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What would be the implications for your medical practice if there was an emergency and you couldn’t communicate clearly with your patients? Check out an introduction to video translating and interpreting services.

A real-world example of the type of decisions made by professional subtitlers every day.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.
Marcel Proust

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. Michael Straczynski

“A Day in the Life of Real Interpreters” by director Sydney Pollack is an interesting look at the challenges of simultaneous interpretation, explained by Diana Liao, Chief of the Interpretation Service at the UN, and Brigitte Andreassier-Pearl, Chief of the French section of the Interpretation Service at the UN. Pollack discusses the intention of the scenes on which he comments, what he added after shooting and took out in editing and why: story, locations, and some technical challenges.

A thought-provoking presentation. Click here

When conversing through an interpreter, it is important to adopt some specific behaviours and styles of communication. This video provides information on some effective ways to bridge the communication gap between English speakers and non-English speakers through the use of interpreters.

Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.