Monika Kokoszycka
@monikakokoszycka.bsky.social
conference interpreter AIIC, EU-accredited • founder & editor of Skilliga🪁 & InterpreterSoapbox🎧 • posting about languages, #xl8, #1nt, #terplife, and training opportunities • Londoner 🇬🇧🇵🇱🇪🇺 supporting 🇺🇦 • pics: work, travels, London life
Fantastic news!
Heading to Germany or Switzerland? You'll soon be able to take the train
The journey would take about five hours between London and Frankfurt, and five hours and 20 minutes between London and Geneva.
news.sky.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Fantastic news!
Kent, near Sevenoaks
May 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Kent, near Sevenoaks
A bob of seals 🦭 near Beachy Head, Sussex Coast (along the English Channel). We've had amazing weather in the last few days ☀️
May 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
A bob of seals 🦭 near Beachy Head, Sussex Coast (along the English Channel). We've had amazing weather in the last few days ☀️
New take on a blind date..
@ The Book Elephant - lovely independent bookshop & café, Elephant & Castle, London
@ The Book Elephant - lovely independent bookshop & café, Elephant & Castle, London
May 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
New take on a blind date..
@ The Book Elephant - lovely independent bookshop & café, Elephant & Castle, London
@ The Book Elephant - lovely independent bookshop & café, Elephant & Castle, London
Greenwich Park
April 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Greenwich Park
One of my favourite corners of the world: Cornwall
April 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
One of my favourite corners of the world: Cornwall
Very good advice.
Padstow, Cornwall, UK
Padstow, Cornwall, UK
April 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Very good advice.
Padstow, Cornwall, UK
Padstow, Cornwall, UK
Westminster underground station, Jubilee line. I've always liked it. Futuristic, industrial, some say it looks like a setting for a dystopian movie.
March 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Westminster underground station, Jubilee line. I've always liked it. Futuristic, industrial, some say it looks like a setting for a dystopian movie.
Reposted by Monika Kokoszycka
Happy Valentine's day! Don't you just 💖 it when great CPD events are announced?
An Introduction to Speech-to-Text Interpreting (STTI) and Live Subtitling - 19 March 5:00PM GMT
Featuring a panel of seven experienced practitioners and academics
#1nt #xl8
www.ticketsource.co.uk/iti-interpre...
An Introduction to Speech-to-Text Interpreting (STTI) and Live Subtitling - 19 March 5:00PM GMT
Featuring a panel of seven experienced practitioners and academics
#1nt #xl8
www.ticketsource.co.uk/iti-interpre...
"An Introduction to Speech-to-Text Interpreting (STTI) and Live Subtitling" at Online
Tickets are now available for An Introduction to Speech-to-Text Interpreting (STTI) and Live Subtitling at Online, Online on Wednesday 19th March 2025 at 5:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
www.ticketsource.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Happy Valentine's day! Don't you just 💖 it when great CPD events are announced?
An Introduction to Speech-to-Text Interpreting (STTI) and Live Subtitling - 19 March 5:00PM GMT
Featuring a panel of seven experienced practitioners and academics
#1nt #xl8
www.ticketsource.co.uk/iti-interpre...
An Introduction to Speech-to-Text Interpreting (STTI) and Live Subtitling - 19 March 5:00PM GMT
Featuring a panel of seven experienced practitioners and academics
#1nt #xl8
www.ticketsource.co.uk/iti-interpre...
A colleague argues that a professional interpreter could have helped prevent the diplomatic car crash in the White House back in Feb 2025:
interpretersoapbox.com/why-zelensky...
#1nt 🗒️ #langsky
interpretersoapbox.com/why-zelensky...
#1nt 🗒️ #langsky
Three reasons why Zelenskyy should have used an interpreter
An interpreter explains why she thinks the diplomatic debacle in the White House could have been avoided.
interpretersoapbox.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A colleague argues that a professional interpreter could have helped prevent the diplomatic car crash in the White House back in Feb 2025:
interpretersoapbox.com/why-zelensky...
#1nt 🗒️ #langsky
interpretersoapbox.com/why-zelensky...
#1nt 🗒️ #langsky
If you're in London, don't miss "Son of a Bitch". It's absolutely brilliant. Darkly funny. Great performance (and writing!) by comedian Anna Morris. About motherhood, relationships, social media... On until 15 March.
March 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If you're in London, don't miss "Son of a Bitch". It's absolutely brilliant. Darkly funny. Great performance (and writing!) by comedian Anna Morris. About motherhood, relationships, social media... On until 15 March.
Crocuses = cheer-givers. Spring is coming!
(Photos by my daughter)
(Photos by my daughter)
February 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Crocuses = cheer-givers. Spring is coming!
(Photos by my daughter)
(Photos by my daughter)
US Secretary of State:
"[W]ith Putin you got to have these translators and it just takes forever back and forth. With Zelenskyy, he speaks fluent English, and they’re able to... communicate more directly and it moves a lot faster."
Well, consecutive interpretation... 🤷♀️
www.state.gov/secretary-of...
"[W]ith Putin you got to have these translators and it just takes forever back and forth. With Zelenskyy, he speaks fluent English, and they’re able to... communicate more directly and it moves a lot faster."
Well, consecutive interpretation... 🤷♀️
www.state.gov/secretary-of...
February 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
US Secretary of State:
"[W]ith Putin you got to have these translators and it just takes forever back and forth. With Zelenskyy, he speaks fluent English, and they’re able to... communicate more directly and it moves a lot faster."
Well, consecutive interpretation... 🤷♀️
www.state.gov/secretary-of...
"[W]ith Putin you got to have these translators and it just takes forever back and forth. With Zelenskyy, he speaks fluent English, and they’re able to... communicate more directly and it moves a lot faster."
Well, consecutive interpretation... 🤷♀️
www.state.gov/secretary-of...
Missed last week's Interpreting Europe Conference 2025: AI x AI Artificial Intelligence for Augmented Interpretation?
Catch the recordings here:
commission.europa.eu/get-involved...
Catch the recordings here:
commission.europa.eu/get-involved...
February 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Missed last week's Interpreting Europe Conference 2025: AI x AI Artificial Intelligence for Augmented Interpretation?
Catch the recordings here:
commission.europa.eu/get-involved...
Catch the recordings here:
commission.europa.eu/get-involved...
February 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is fun: textfx.withgoogle.com play with words; alliteration, collocations, acronyms...
February 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is fun: textfx.withgoogle.com play with words; alliteration, collocations, acronyms...
New language/country in the Skilliga🪁 "Buzzword of the Week" series on trending names, words & expressions in different countries. 💃 Our #AIIC Greece & Cyprus colleagues debut with 🇬🇷 "Getting the straits… straight: Iσθμός, πορθμός, διώρυγα": blog.skilliga.com/buzzword-of-... 👏
#xl8 #1nt #langsky
#xl8 #1nt #langsky
February 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
New language/country in the Skilliga🪁 "Buzzword of the Week" series on trending names, words & expressions in different countries. 💃 Our #AIIC Greece & Cyprus colleagues debut with 🇬🇷 "Getting the straits… straight: Iσθμός, πορθμός, διώρυγα": blog.skilliga.com/buzzword-of-... 👏
#xl8 #1nt #langsky
#xl8 #1nt #langsky
Reposted by Monika Kokoszycka
Are linguists paying a lot of attention to LLMs? Because this seems like a fascinating finding with large implications: LLMs share highly abstract grammatical concept representations, even across unrelated languages, so even models trained mostly on English do well in other languages.
February 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Are linguists paying a lot of attention to LLMs? Because this seems like a fascinating finding with large implications: LLMs share highly abstract grammatical concept representations, even across unrelated languages, so even models trained mostly on English do well in other languages.
Someone "using LLMs to translate in the same language direction [they] did manually for many years" explains their highly iterative & quality-focused process: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4289... "Using an LLM as a sentence-level thesaurus on steroids is particularly wonderful," they say.
#xl8 #AI
#xl8 #AI
February 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Someone "using LLMs to translate in the same language direction [they] did manually for many years" explains their highly iterative & quality-focused process: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4289... "Using an LLM as a sentence-level thesaurus on steroids is particularly wonderful," they say.
#xl8 #AI
#xl8 #AI
Here are some free webinars from @britishlibrary.bsky.social that I thought #xl8 #1nt colleagues might find useful: skilliga.com/organiser/br..., including social media, networking (5 Feb!), researching your market, copyright, and intellectual property (7 Feb!). #SkilligaPicks 🪁 #CPD
February 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Here are some free webinars from @britishlibrary.bsky.social that I thought #xl8 #1nt colleagues might find useful: skilliga.com/organiser/br..., including social media, networking (5 Feb!), researching your market, copyright, and intellectual property (7 Feb!). #SkilligaPicks 🪁 #CPD
My new favourite pastime. (Not.) Not a good day to be a train. Delayed or cancelled because of dodgy tracks, breakdowns, or… vandalism!! And other 🚃 line-hogging and slow-rolling (slow coaches... 😂🫣 sorry, couldn't resist puns!). All that in the space of… 60 mins!
February 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
My new favourite pastime. (Not.) Not a good day to be a train. Delayed or cancelled because of dodgy tracks, breakdowns, or… vandalism!! And other 🚃 line-hogging and slow-rolling (slow coaches... 😂🫣 sorry, couldn't resist puns!). All that in the space of… 60 mins!