Pope's Interpreter

Pope Francis in other words -- delivered by his British interpreter

Msgr. Mark Miles is the linguistic bridge between the Spanish-speaking Francis and his English-speaking audiences. He has accompanied the pope on other international trips and been at his side in some illustrious company, including President Obama, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Queen Elizabeth II.

Miles’ biggest challenge is keeping up with a boss who’s known for going off script. On a stop during a visit to the Philippines in January, Francis decided to rip up his prepared homily in favor of an impromptu address and gave his put-upon aide a shoutout: “I have a translator, a good translator!”

That papal penchant for off-the-cuff remarks has at times flummoxed not only Miles but the Holy See’s press office and the team of translators and interpreters whose job it is to render Francis’ utterances into several languages, including Italian, English, Spanish, French, German and Arabic.

The Vatican’s translations of those transcripts into other languages are usually marked “unofficial,” frustrating international reporters who cover the pope.

“Very often they miss the point. They miss the nuances,” veteran Vatican correspondent Robert Mickens said of the translations. “I don’t use them. I [do] my own translation .... The Vatican usually says ‘unofficial translation,’ because they don’t want to take responsibility for getting it wrong.”

 LA Times 

Vatican interpreter Msgr. Mark Miles, center, walks with Pope Francis and President Obama outside the White House in Washington on Sept. 23.

 (Andrew Harnik / Associated Press)

Translators and Interpreters in Conflict Zones

by Translator's Digest

But now I’m facing a new reality. One I cannot detach myself from. One where the victims are not far away from me in time or space. The victims are part of my community and reality: they are translators and interpreters who are used by governments in conflict zones and then left behind to be arrested, tortured, and killed for merely doing their jobs. They are recruited for extremely dangerous assignments where they are then hunted down and killed by insurgent groups or military regimes while the governments that employed them do nothing to protect them and refuse to offer them asylum after the assignments are completed. Some examples include the following:

Italy-Afghanistan: Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo and his interpreter Ajmal Naqshbandi were both abducted. The Italian government ensured Daniele’s safe return, but left the interpreter behind to be beheaded.

And the list goes on. We need to take action to help fellow interpreters and translators. To learn more about this, please visit Red-Thttp://red-t.org/index.html, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of translators and interpreters (T&Is) in conflict zones and other adversarial settings. Please consider supporting their open letter project, follow them on Facebook and Twitter, blog about these issues, talk about what’s going on, spread the word. We need to raise awareness and get this issue on the international agenda!

http://translatorsdigest.net/2015/09/22/translators-and-interpreters-in-conflict-zones-need-our-help/

Službe v EU institucijah:

Evropska unija pri svojih institucijah omogoča zaposlovanje na podlagi izbirnih postopkov, ki jih za inštitucije opravlja  Evropska služba za izbor kadrov (EPSO). Več informacije o razpisih in pogojih zaposlitve v evropskih institucijah boste našli na spletnem naslovu: http://europa.eu/epso

Evropske institucije ponujajo študentom in univerzitetnim diplomantom tudi širok izbor opravljanja pripravništev. Pripravništvo jim omogoča, da dobijo edinstven in neposreden vpogled v delo institucij in dejavnosti EU. Na voljo je veliko možnosti za različna obdobja v številnih krajih. Pregled pripravništev po različnih evropskih institucijah najdete tu:

http://europa.eu/about-eu/working-eu-institutions/traineeships/index_sl.htm

Pripravništva, ki jih nudi Evropski parlament, pa najdete na povezavi:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/sl/007cecd1cc/Traineeships.html

Koristne informacije so na voljo tudi na spodnji povezavi:  

http://www.europarl.si/sl/vam_na_voljo/pripravnistvo.html

Nekaj trenutno prostih mest: 

* Projects Manager in the President’s Office (European University Institute, Italy): http://bit.ly/1LvJ0q1
* Strategy, Impact and Monitoring Officer (M/F) (European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Hungary): http://bit.ly/1ObVbOP
* Close Protection Officer (General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Belgium): http://bit.ly/1USf64b
* Executive Director (European Asylum Support Officer, Malta): http://bit.ly/1Fc4qLW
* Seconded National Expert (European Network and Information Security Agency, Greece): http://bit.ly/1LvJexr

Konferenca

Translation & Interpreting Conference: Convergence, Contact, Interaction
Trst, 26.-28. maj 2015

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