“la parole exportée”

… there is something that is even harder for your brain: trying to mix several languages in the same sentence - that is normally impossible (or nobody will understand you)!

These youngsters managed to do it.

They apologized to the interpreters in the end, but the interpreters were not working, you can tell because the video was shot from the booth.

Here is the poster’s comment on YouTube:

Greg and Chris presenting my school in front of students from all over Europe in the European Parliament during the Euroscola day.

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

I’m very busy juggling several translation projects at the moment, so I’m not as available for this blog as I would wish to be.

Do check the 2008 IYL page at the top of the sidebar ————>

as I try to keep the diary more or less up to date!

Don’t forget that 2008 is the International Year of Languages, a dream opportunity for us to present the world as we see it.

The daily Le Monde has a special weekly section targeting students, with a quiz on a selection of eight topics relating to the week’s events, with links to suggested articles (in French).

Although this is meant for students primarily, it can be of interest to anyone who wishes to keep current with international events, in French.

Take the quiz now:

Révisez l’actualité en huit questions
LEMONDE.FR | 25.01.08

©

I look up my Blog Stats every day and I keep a complete list of search phrases that attracted people to my translator’s blog. They are in a little file in a corner of my desktop, just in case they come in handy at a later stage…

But these search phrases can be weird.

See this one, and I’m not making it up:

“American billionaire buys 395,000 shares”

It’s a weird one, because:

1- I don’t know any American billionaire, or any that I am aware of.

2- I haven’t translated a book by an American billionaire, although I’d love to.

3- I never mentioned any American billionaire in my posts, even with a view to attracting visitors indirectly. Now I might am ;-).

4- If there is an American billionaire who bought 395,000 shares of any stock recently (Société Générale doesn’t count…), he can feel free to contact me directly, as I am interested to explore what we might have in common, that Google/Yahoo/MSN has already spotted, and I haven’t.

5- If there is an American billionaire who bought 395,000 shares of any stock recently (Société Générale doesn’t count…), he can feel free to contact me directly, as I am interested to hear what useful tips (apart from online marketing offers) he would have for an aspiring French billionaire.

Naturally, I googled the phrase, but didn’t find anything conclusive (my URL).

Are search engines entering the match-making market now? Hmmmm… interesting.