Daniel Greene

Tag: reblog

  • When the agency makes you do a voice-over with a bad translation.

    Originally posted on The Professional Interpreter: Dear Colleagues, The other day I was talking to some colleagues who do voice-overs for radio, television, and industrials. Soon, the conversation turned to those times when the interpreter gets the script for the voice-over or for a commercial just to learn that the original English text has been…

  • The Professional Interpreter: One Profession. One Real Profession.

    Originally posted on The Professional Interpreter: Dear Colleagues, It seems to me that a week never goes by without a colleague telling me that he or she was misunderstood, humiliated, obstructed, or underpaid while doing his or her job.  Some of them react with anger, others with frustration, a few seem resigned, but a growing…