TED Talks on Translation and Interpreting

Here are a few interesting TED Talks on translation and interpreting. You can also visit the TED website for more videos.

In the first video, Professors Laura Burian and Barry Olsen demonstrate the differences between translation and interpreting. This video will give any aspiring student a good idea of what to expect from their studies and the field of translation and interpreting.

Every act of communication is, in some way, an act of translation. In the second video Writer Chris Bliss talks about the way that great comedy can translate deep truths for a mass audience.

In the third video Joel Hoffman speaks about translation problems created by language change by citing examples from the King James Bible.