Just couldn’t resist this one about trolls.
On a more serious note, and in case you missed it, do take a look at solicitor and translator Helen Smith’s guest post Fluffy cats and Trolls out shopping, about the European Unitary Patent.
Online course on Arabic legal translation
eCPD Webinars is running an online legal translation course (Arabic-English, English-Arabic). The course will take the form of three 90-minute training sessions over 3 weeks. Participants are expected to attend all three.
Stop press – Linguee adds languages
Following my post last year about the translation search engine Linguee, its language combinations have been extended.
Here is an extract from their recent press release:
Formation – Droit des sociétés et textes commerciaux
The Syndicat national des traducteurs professionnels is organizing a 2-day training course for translators on company law and corporate documents. The sessions will be in French, so the rest of this post follows suit!
Monday smiles – Multiple choice
Enjoy your week!
Italian etymology dictionary
To round off the week in the same way we began, here is a resource which I like very much.
According to the introduction by the webmaster, “Il Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiana di Ottorino Pianigiani” was first published in 1907 in two volumes by Albrighi & Segati, and followed in 1926 by a volume of Aggiunte, corrections and variations (Ariani, Florence). It was then republished on several occasions by different publishers.
German translation of Product Information Sheets (PIBs) Circular
© Kai Hartmann Photography / BaFin
The German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) recently issued an official (but stating that is for information purposes only) translation of its Circular on Product Information Sheets (PIBs).
Webinar on Polish legal translation
eCPD Webinars will be holding a webinar on January 21, 2014 on Polish legal translation.
The objective of the webinar is to raise awareness of legal translation problems, language problems in English-Polish translation and to learn strategies for dealing with them.
Monday smiles – Etymology
Today, I offer you this cartoon to start off your week. Enjoy!
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Credit: With many thanks and credit to Mark Anderson at Andertoons.
Public information seminar on career opportunities for lawyer-linguists, Dublin
A public information seminar entitled “Career Opportunities for Lawyer-Linguists in the EU Institutions” is to be held on Wednesday 4 December 2013 in Dublin, Ireland.
You may have seen my recent post on the call for applications from lawyer-linguists to work in the EU institutions.
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