{"id":2972,"date":"2020-03-04T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www0.sun.ac.za\/languagecentre\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T08:20:45","slug":"wagging-tongues-and-interpreting-at-the-woordfees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wagging-tongues-and-interpreting-at-the-woordfees\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagging tongues and interpreting at the Woordfees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve already cast an eye over this year\u2019s Woordfees guide \u2013 as has many a Woordfees follower \u2013 you may well have come across the Language Centre\u2019s advertisement and tips on how to ask the way in Xhosa. The page concludes with the motto \u201cGreat things happen when you work with us\u201d. And the Woordfees is indeed working with us again this year \u2013 to make sure that simultaneous interpretation is at the ready for the hubbub that is the discourse series.<\/p>\n<p>The Woordfees kicks off on 5 March this year and, other than events for theatre, writers and music, various sessions will also be held where the speakers will be encouraging the audience to join in the discussions. And to enrich these opportunities for communication, Language Centre interpreters will be at several of these sessions to interpret \u2013 free of charge \u2013 (mainly) into English or Afrikaans.<\/p>\n<p>Eduard de Kock, one of the Language Centre\u2019s interpreters, remembers when this initiative was started in 2018: \u201cIt was such a fascinating and exciting request. There was a series of discussions that took place every day in a tent in front of Wilgenhof. We had to find a picnic bench, hand out interpreting equipment and then interpret all that interesting and quite emotional testimony \u2013 and resist the urge not to become involved ourselves! Interpreting for the Woordfees has become an opportunity that I really look forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interpreting won\u2019t be happening at all the discourse sessions because of logistical reasons, but chances are that you\u2019ll come across an interpreter somewhere sometime. Look out for people with a toolbox, usually close to the stage, and typically with a huge grin. Come and say hi \u2013 and do make use of this free service. Happy Woordfees!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9544\" src=\"http:\/\/www0.sun.ac.za\/languagecentre\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Diskoers-193x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Diskoers-193x300-1.jpg 193w, https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Diskoers-193x300-1-180x280.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve already cast an eye over this year\u2019s Woordfees guide \u2013 as has many a Woordfees follower \u2013 you may well have come across the Language Centre\u2019s advertisement and tips on how to ask the way in Xhosa. The page concludes with the motto \u201cGreat things happen when you work with us\u201d. And the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,68,69],"tags":[130,99,129],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dialogos","category-our-languages","category-recent-news","tag-discourse-series","tag-interpreting","tag-woordfees"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}