wtorek, 23 lutego 2016
Szpitale w Nowym Jorku cierpią z powodu niedoboru tłumaczy. Co 3 pacjent szpitali na Queensie mówi po chińsku. Problem tłumaczeń medycznych to wierzchołek góry lodowej, 2 mln Nowojorczyków słabo mówi po angielsku...
New York Hospitals Struggling With Patient Language Services
With a Chinese patient population of approximately 30 percent, the New York Hospital of Queens has launched a monthly health education series for native Chinese-speakers. The lectures are part of the hospital's Community Health Initiatives program. While local leaders have praised the hospital for going beyond basic language access rights, the program is also a reminder of how much is not being done in other communities. More than 1.8 million of New York City's 8 million residents have limited English proficiency (LEP), according to the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. The Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies reports that the LEP population is underserved in healthcare and that the resulting inequalities come at great expense to the economy. Gayle Tang, Senior Director of National Diversity and Inclusion at Kaiser Permanente, agrees and says, "Organizations, leaders, and decision-makers really need to understand that language access is a business imperative, not a minority issue." Language access advocates also point out that patient education is just a small piece of the bigger picture. Researcher Cindy Brach of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says the problem requires a multi-pronged approach, including availability of healthcare information in a patient's native language, medical interpreting services, and translation of discharge instructions. Experts cite interpreting services as an example of how difficult it has been to make progress. Although a 2006 law mandated free language services in the city's top six non-English languages, there is still a significant difference in how the law is being carried out, especially in access to interpreters. New York Immigration Coalition Advocate Claudia Calhoon says even getting healthcare providers to consistently use interpreter services is a challenge. Tang remains hopeful, however. "It's a matter of people getting together and being able to leverage each others' resources," she says.
From "Healthcare in Translation"
NY City Lens (NY) (10/20/14) Lem, Pola Aniela
czwartek, 18 lutego 2016
Błędy tłumaczeniowe mogły doprowadzić do śmierci zakładników. Rząd japoński zatrudnił tłumaczy, których błędy mogły okazać się bardzo kosztowne - czytaj więcej
Japanese Government Error May Have Two Hostages ‘Lost in Translation’
Źródło: ATA Newsbriefs, reprinted from The Daily Beast (January 25, 2015) i
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/25/japanese-government-error-may-have-two-hostages-lost-in-translation.html
Did Tokyo’s failure to hire competent translators lead ISIS to misunderstand Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cairo speech?
The deadline to pay the $200 million ransom to free journalist Kenji Goto and self-proclaimed military contractor Haruna Yukawa, ended with the release of a new video Saturday night of Goto holding a photo of the beheaded Yukawa and a recording of someone claiming to be Goto and laying out the new terms: the release of Sajida al-Rishawi, a female suicide bomber who was captured by Jordanian authorities in 2005. It appears the worst-case scenario is coming true, but is it possible that the crisis was exacerbated from the beginning by a simple misunderstanding. Did Japan’s “good intentions” get lost in translation?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated Sunday morning that the credibility of the latest video is likely “high.”
“Unfortunately, at this point, we are analyzing the picture, but we cannot help but say that the credibility of it is high,” said Abe on an NHK program called “Nichiyo Toron.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs released an official statement from Prime Minister Abe in English on the evening of Jan. 25 in Japan, noted as “provisional translation,” which states: “We have been pursuing every possible means including all available diplomatic channels, first and foremost, to save lives of the two Japanese nationals. It is under these circumstances that an image in which Mr. Haruna Yukawa seems to have been murdered, was uploaded online.
Fully aware of unbearable pain and sorrow that his family must be feeling, I am simply left speechless.
Such act of terrorism is outrageous and impermissible, which causes me nothing but strong indignation. Thus I express resolute condemnation.”
The English translation includes links to the original Japanese statement, and a statement in Arabic.
The government seems certain the video is real but some are questioning the authenticity of the video because it does not have an ISIS logo or footage of Yukawa’s execution. Goto’s mother, Junko Ishido, claims that the voice in the audio doesn’t sound like her son, who speaks fluent, clear English.
“I’m simply stunned. I can’t believe that it’s real. I only believe that Kenji will soon come back to me,” she said from her home in Tokyo.
It’s not clear whether the Japanese government, which has no direct contact with ISIS, will comply with the new demand, or even if they can—al-Rishawi is in Jordanian custody. Negotiations are going poorly and mistranslations may have worsened the situation. While Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga claimed that Prime Minister was “trying his best” to resolve the crisis, there is no official word that any negotiations between the Japanese government and ISIS have happened.
As previously reported in The Daily Beast, the crisis could possibly have been averted last year if the Japanese government had not detained freelance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka, who was scheduled to travel to Syria last October to mediate Haruna Yukawa’s trial and secure his release.
Nikkan Gendai, a daily newspaper in Japan, quotes a former Japanese diplomat’s critique of the way the administration has handled negotiations so far.
“The Abe Administration’s sense of diplomacy and lack of negotiation ability was made clear in this hostage crisis,” Amaki Naoto, a former diplomat, told Nikkan Gendai.
“I was shocked by how Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga indicated his awareness that the ‘deadline is at 2:50 PM on the 23rd’ even though they were in the middle of negotiating [the hostages’ release]. It would at least be better if they had taken a firm attitude that “the deadline is when the conclusion is made” but it’s unprecedented that the side whose hostages were taken would set their own deadline. Why show the other side, the cards you’re holding? It’s out of the question.”
In that same article, Nikkan Gendai also suggest ISIS’s decision to kill Yukawa and Goto unless the $200 million ransom was paid could have been sparked by Abe’s Jan. 17 speech in Cairo. In that speech, Abe pledged $200 million in non-military humanitarian aid to countries and refugees in the Middle East, but the paper reports the government didn’t hire a competent English translator and no Arabic translation was even attempted.
In an English version of the speech provided on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ homepage on Jan. 18, Abe states, “We are going to provide assistance for refugees and displaced persons from Iraq and Syria.” The text refers to ISIS by the other acronym ISIL.
In the next paragraph, he adds, “We are also going to support Turkey and Lebanon. All that, we shall do to help curb the threat ISIL poses. I will pledge assistance of a total of about 200 million U.S. dollars for those countries contending with ISIL, to help build their human capacities, infrastructure, and so on.”
środa, 17 lutego 2016
Tłumacze konferencyjni w instytucjach europejskich skarżą się na zbyt szybko mówiących prelegentów. Zatrudniając tłumacza konferencyjnego, pamiętaj, aby dostosować szybkość swojej wypowiedzi do tłumaczenia :)
Fast-Talking Members of European Parliament Urged to Slow Down for Interpreters
BBC News (United Kingdom) (02/05/16)
In an effort to help interpreters do their jobs more efficiently, the European Parliament's chief of staff has urged members of parliament to speak more slowly and to stick to their native languages. "It's extremely important that people do not speak too fast," says Secretary General Klaus Welle, adding that he was responding to requests from staff interpreters. Thousands of interpreters and translators work in EU institutions to cope with 24 official languages. The parliament has about 330 staff interpreters and 1,800 freelancers. In addition, it employs about 700 translators who translate more than 100,000 pages each month. The most recent languages to be made official were Croatian (in 2013), Irish, Bulgarian, and Romanian (all in 2007). Welle recognizes that the scope of an interpreter's work in the EU is unique. "It's extremely important for the interpreters that people speak their own languages," he told the parliament's budgetary control committee. "If members of parliament speak a foreign language the quality of the interpretation goes down, and you hear interpreters making requests to you: 'Please speak more slowly, speak your own language.'" The parliament's budget for interpreters is €45 million, with another €9 million allocated for translations done externally. The European Commission, where EU laws are drafted, has 600 staff interpreters and 3,000 freelance interpreters. The Commission's total staff is about 33,000.
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niedziela, 14 lutego 2016
O powstawaniu nowych słów - How new words are born
How new words are born
źródło: The Guardian
According to Global Language Monitor, around 5,400 new words are created every year (Oxford Dictionaries Online, evidently using different criteria, reckon 1.8bn). It’s only the 1,000 or so deemed to be in sufficiently widespread use that make it into print. Who invents these words, and how? What rules govern their formation? And what determines whether they catch on?Shakespeare is often held up as a master neologist, because at least 500 words (including bump, cranny, fitful, lacklustre and pedant) first appear in his works – but we have no way of knowing whether he personally invented them or was just transcribing things he’d picked up elsewhere. More.
See: The Guardian
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