Resources
Becoming a professional conference interpreter requires the acquisition of skills, such as analysing, structuring, storing and retrieving information, but also the continuing development of general knowledge, including terminology, phraseology and what is often referred to as encyclopaedic knowledge.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of valuable resources vetted and recommended by the FTI’s Interpreting Department. Please signal dead links to INT-FTI (at) UNIGE.CH
Arabic
German
- Das Digitale Wörterbuch
- Deutscher Wortschatz -Portal
- Lexikon.ch
- SprichWort-Plattform
- Verfassungen der Welt
- Verzeichnis der Staatennamen
English
- TheFreeDictionary
- Dictionary of idioms and phrases
- Index of expressions EN-FR-ES
- The Phrase Finder
- World Wide Words
- Wordspy (The Word Lover's Guide to New Words)
- New words and slang
- English for Techies
- William Shakespeare Quotes
- Acronyms
- English accents
Spanish
- Real Academia Española
- La Página del Idioma Español
- Diccionario de Colocaciones del Español
- Enciclopedia médica en español
- Refranero multilingüe
French
- Enrichissement de la langue française
- Grand dictionnaire terminologique de la langue française
- Langue-fr.net (difficultés du français, bon usage, syntaxe...)
- FranceTerme
- Les expressions françaises décortiquées
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Texte de la Bible
- Fables de La Fontaine
- Le dictionnaire des mots moches
- Sensagent
- Dictionnaire électronique des synonymes (CRISCO)
- Termes régionaux de Suisse romande et de Savoie
- Gentilés et adjectifs (noms des habitants de pays, régions, etc.)
- Accents de France
Italian
- Dizionari e glossari
- Accademia della Crusca
- Elenco delle Organizzazioni Internazionali intergovernative
- ONU Italia
- La Bibbia
- Sigle europee e internazionali
Russian
- Latin quotations and phrases
- Simply Latin (and a bit of Greek)
- The multilingual Bible
- BBC country profiles
- List of Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs
- UN Geographical Names Database
- Glossaries of UN interpreters
- EU list of States and Territories
- Eurotopics
- Acronyms and initialisms of the EU
- Worldatlas
- AIIC