Top-notch conference interpreting assignment last June!

June 2011 saw another English/Portuguese interpreting assignment being trusted to Translation with Colour®.
The background for the two days - 6 and 7 June - was the Environment & Sustainability Week promoted by a Portuguese local government which included a conference on the role and responsibilities of municipal authorities for sustainable development. The audience of this seminar was mainly composed by political decision-makers and senior technical staff.

The individuality I was personally assisting was ICLEI expert and United Nations Secretary-General's Adviser, Mr. Ruud Schuthof, during the Portuguese language presentations, while consecutive interpreting had to be performed for the audience in the hall, which included Spanish-language native speakers. This context demanded extra care in pronunciation and use of the microphone as the interpreting was made not from the booth but on open view from the chairman's table.

Interesting, challenging and rewarding!

Video subtitling project... electric cycling for a sustainable future!

 

This is our latest English-language subtitling project and once again we bring value into a sustainable development project, in this specific case it refers to electrical cycling along with dedicated pathways.The video runs for 1 minute and 55 seconds, but it will not take this time for you to understand it took less to finish the minute task... and this post!

Next entry will feature impressions on our most recent extended translation assignment on the role of institutions of higher-learning in the development of small to medium-sized cities, i.e. cities which want to run up ... stay tuned!

Translation of a Paper about Municipal Programmes for the Senior Population

This short assignment was completed an year ago; it was another translation of a Portuguese language paper into English for an international seminar in Spain.

The text deals with the experience of a Portuguese municipality in improving socialization and physical exercise programmes for the senior population in its vast and assymetric territory. Very interesting reading for ideas!

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