October 2018

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It’s a busy time of year in membership as we continue processing renewals – many thanks to you all for renewing so promptly. We’ve been out and about promoting membership and the value of being chartered, with visits to the universities of Kent, Bath and Surrey planned for this month.

In addition our divisions and societies have kicked off the new membership year with some fantastic events including ‘Legal Translation for the Terrified’, held in Manchester. Both the Translating and Interpreting divisions have held their AGMs and we welcome two new TD committee members, Natalia Racheyskova and Rosa Insua Salgueiro, who were successfully elected.

Our online CPD programme is underway too, details of forthcoming events are detailed below.

And finally, our annual visit to the Hong Kong Society and China Association in Shanghai is planned for November. We will report on both these in due course.

2018–19 is looking to be another exciting, busy and rewarding year. If you have any feedback for the team please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Kind regards
CIOL Membership team

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Benefit of the month – Self-certified translation statement

We now provide a self-certified translation statement template on the website and suggest how you can provide your own self-certified translations as a CIOL member and/or Chartered Linguist.

This benefit will be particularly useful for translators based in the UK where there is no accredited system of ‘sworn’ or ‘certified’ translation, and is available to members at Career Affiliate grade and above.

Simply log in with My CIOL to access this membership benefit.

The Language Show 2018

The Language Show is now less than a month away.

The Show returns to London’s Olympia this year, and we will be exhibiting as usual, so visit us on Stand D16 and meet the team.

Find out here what seminars and workshops CIOL members are taking part in.

Meet the BPG Division
BPG, CIOL’s Business, Professions and Government division, will be hosting a reception on our stand at 5pm on Saturday 10 November, so do come along and find out what BPG does and meet members of the division.

Tour of BBC Birmingham
This tour provides exclusive access behind the scenes of some of your favourite TV and radio shows.

Saturday 3 November
Birmingham
Midlands Network

Networking Lunch and Talk
Barry Ardley will present a talk entitled ‘The Lincoln Magna Carta: Interpreting a Memory of the World’

Saturday 24 November
Lincoln
Lincolnshire Society

Starting Your Career as a Professional Translator
An event for students and career changers

Saturday 1 December
London
Translating Division

The David Crystal Lecture 2018
American English: How have we gotten here? A lecture by Susie Dent
Where: Westminster Law School
When: Saturday 27 October 2018
This is a free public lecture; tickets are still available.  Register here.

Visit the website for all forthcoming CIOL events and see what's going on near you.

New membership benefits

CIOL members at all grades are now entitled to a 10% discount from Foyles bookshop, and a 25% discount on membership of English Heritage.

Access these CIOL Advantage benefits through My CIOL.

National Mentoring Day - 27 October 2018

National Mentoring Day is an annual event that highlights benefits of mentoring. CIOL is excited to celebrate this day with its very own mentoring platform. Launched in May, CIOL Mentoring has significantly grown and continues to do so with new sign-ups every day. We are looking for more mentors to meet current demand, so if you feel you have something to offer please sign up.

In celebration of National Mentoring Day, we would love to hear from members who are participants in the scheme and how you have benefited as a mentee or mentor.

Please email your story to comms@ciol.org.uk.

Judith Gabler – No1 female influencer in the German real estate sector

Congratulations to CIOL Chair of Council and Chartered Linguist Judith Gabler FCIL who has been ranked the top female influencer in Germany in the real estate sector by the trade journal Immobilien Manager.

Judith plans to use this well-deserved accolade to promote languages in business and chartership. German speakers may like to click below to read more.

eCPD Webinars – a taster of what's coming up this month

18 October
Legal terminology: Drugs and drug-related offences – learn about or brush up your legal terminology in relation to drugs and drug-related offences

22 October
Interpreter Safety part 1: Public Service Interpreting – this webinar will look at the different aspects that can affect public service interpreters’ safety and how to tackle them in order to stay healthy and safe.

29 October
Interpreter Safety part 2: Industrial and Conference Environments – Learn about a simple set of tools that interpreters working in industrial and conference environments can use before, during and after assignments to help optimise their own safety, and that of colleagues and clients.

Remember, CIOL members receive a 10% discount on webinars.

The Linguist 57/5

The October/November issue of The Linguist 57/5 is available to view online in our new responsive platform.
 
You don’t have to be on the CIOL website to access The Linguist online:
1. Go to The Linguist web viewer
2. When prompted, enter your CIOL username (this may be your
    email address or other username you have created) and
    password. This will take you to the Contents page of the new
    issue where you can read the latest articles.

Once you have logged in, explore and browse using the menu in the column on the left-hand side of the screen. This gives you access to back issues (via the cover images) and to articles on particular topics, such as ‘Translation’, ‘Interpreting’, ‘Technology’, ‘Brexit’ etc.

Please email comms@ciol.org.uk if you are unable to log in.