An Italian native speaker and a Portuguese native speaker walk into a bar.
Which language are they using? Is it English or ELF? What even is ELF?
In today's episode, my guest is EU intrepreter and ELF expert Karin Reithofer. We discuss
- How Karin got into her career as a freelance interpreter working in 4 languages
- My non-scientific (and apparently correct!) theory about the personalities of interpreters and translators
- What ELF is and who speaks it
- Who owns English and whose English is correct?
- How Brexit has liberated the EU (linguistically! don't come for me!)
Bilingual Episode
Karin and I are both German native speakers, so we switched from English into German for a little bit to give you some listening practice as a learner.
If you are not a German learner, don't worry as we'll always switch back to English and I interpreted make sure you don't miss anything.
Here I always like to remember what the late Ron Gullekson from Language Surfer told me:
"in a new language, I like to get uncomfortable as early as possible."
So enjoy the challenge and enjoy the German practice!
Where do you listen?
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Thank you to Karin for this episode introduction in Kärntnerisch.
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Special Guest: Karin Reithofer.
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Links:
- The Fluent Show: Living the Dream! Get Paid to Learn Languages (with Paul Kaye, EU Language Officer) — Hear more about what it's like to be a language professional working for the EU - this is the translator's side
- Work as a Freelance Interpreter at the EU | European Union
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