Tweets February 2013

In English
Articles:

• Listening for the Jabberwock by Tim Parks
• How to Prepare for the United Nations Interpreter Exam
• When did ‘kicking ass’ become acceptable?
• Meet the Translator: Alberto Pagini who brings you TED Talks in Italian
• I’m in love. I’m all shook up. Metaphors of love and relationships
• 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think
• Foreign languages: how to memorise vocabulary
• Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Joyce’s Ulysses
• 5 Types Of Love Americans Can’t Name

Resources:

• Poetry translation Workshops
• Glossary of Structural Engineering Terms (EN)
• Grammar and punctuation test: take our quiz
• A Guide to Preparing for the Competitive Examination for the Recruitment of United Nations Interpreters
• A free Coursera online class Clinical Terminology for International Students
• The Winter 2013 issue of Language Update by Translation Bureau
• The Internet DictionaryThousands of definitions about Internet and computers
• The Untranslatable Words Database
• The Ultimate Glossary: 120 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained
• Language tip of the week: occur, Macmillan
• Dictionary of interjections
• New language games!, Macmillan
• Memory teaching resources to help learners develop memory skills for language learning

News:

• New words: site scraper? like-gating? … - Cambridge Dictionaries Online blog
• AIIC Vacancies
• New words: food literacy, gastrocrat, obesity paradox
• International Mother Language Day, 21 February
• Microsoft Translator celebrates International Mother Language Day with the Launch of New Languages: Malay and Urdu
• Coursera adds 29 new universities to bring total to 62, offers first courses in Chinese, Italian, and Spanish

In Italian:
Articles:

• Homeless e punk à la française, La parola al traduttore
• Giuseppe Ungaretti: L’arte della poesia ‘La parola è impotente: non riuscirà mai a dare il segreto che è in noi… lo avvicina’.
• Candidati sostenete la lettura di Andrea Camilleri
• Cenci? Chiacchiere… o son tutte Bugie?, La parola è servita, Zanichelli
• Meteoroide, meteora e meteorite, Blog Terminología etc.
• 10 booktrailer bellissimi

Resources:

• Il dizionario di termini giuridici
• Morbus anglicus? , 5a puntata di La Lingua Batte
• Si può dire ‘più fantastico’ o ‘più totale’? , La posta del professore, Zanichelli
• Per l’orrido burocratese sono canoni e contratti locatizi/locatori, Osservatorio della lingua italiana
• Come scaricare 36.000 ebook gratis da Amazon

In French:
Articles:

• Les plans cul d’Emma Bovary, ou la littérature française vue par les critiques d’Amazon, Slate
• Le traducteur amoureux d’un roman d’amour, Bernard Lortholary, La République Des Livres
• Quelle langue apprendre ? Où ? Comment ? Pourquoi ? - Europe1.fr
• Norman et les fautes d’orthographe (vidéo) :))

Resources:

• L’Écran traduit, nouvelle revue de l’Association des traducteurs-adaptateurs de l’audiovisuel
• Les mots du Carnaval
• Le carnaval du dictionnaire
• Portail de la traduction littéraires
• Dictionnaire esthétique et thématique de la bande dessinée
• La France des écrivains - Cartographie littéraire participative
• Portail officiel du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale

News:

• La 4e Journée québécoise des dictionnaires
• Bourse pour la traduction de pièces de théâtre (DE-FR-IT), Blog de l’ATLF
• Les aides à la traduction du CNL, Blog de l’ATLF
• Festival International de Twittérature, le samedi 30 mars à Bordeaux
• 20 mars Journée internationale de la Francophonie

In Spanish and other languages:

• Lista completísima de blogs y páginas de Facebook de lenguas y traducción
• X Congreso Internacional Traducción, Texto e Interferencias, Alemania 4-6 sept. 2013
• Glosario básico sobre microfinanzas (ES), .pdf, 2010
• Lèxic casteller (CA)
• Vocabulari . Ayuntamiento de Petrer (CA)
• Els termes de la telefonia móvil (CA-EN-ES), Termcat

Grazie, Merci, Gracias Thanks to s @Mc_LEHM @alexpysaryuk @TermCoord @PoetryTranslate @PaulEdgar1@EuroTalk @RodolfoMaslias ?@bcperta @LinguaGreca @tesresources @WordLo @sabrinatursi ?@SilviaP_ @european_school @zanichelli_diz ?@alexpysaryuk @Currixan @WordLo @nundrea @Gazofilaci and many more for sharing some of those links.