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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🥁 Welcome to Skilliga 2.0! @tommleko.bsky.social & I can now officially present the revamped skilliga.com 100% free directory & calendar for #xl8 & #1nt #CPD & #training. Still free to use, run by volunteers, no ads. ✨ NEW: 🔖 Collections 🔔 Follows ⭐ Reviews 💬 Q&A 🤖 AI tools 📊 Organiser Dashboard

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A bob of seals 🦭 near Beachy Head, Sussex Coast (along the English Channel). We've had amazing weather in the last few days ☀️

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

New take on a blind date.. @ The Book Elephant - lovely independent bookshop & café, Elephant & Castle, London

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

From X, but gold. I don't want to imagine something like that happening in the booth! 😂 😬 #1nt 🎧 #langsky

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

One of my favourite corners of the world: Cornwall

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Very good advice. Padstow, Cornwall, UK

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Westminster underground station, Jubilee line. I've always liked it. Futuristic, industrial, some say it looks like a setting for a dystopian movie.

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ITI Interpreters' Development Network (old account) @iti-idn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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...

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"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!

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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

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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.

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#1nt booth in a garden - the Garden of Multilingualism in Luxembourg - near the Court of Justice of the EU

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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.

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Unusual workplace. Interpreting booth in a church in Leiden. #1nt 🎧⛪️ (Spotted by a colleague, Justyna Seweryńska.)

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Crocuses = cheer-givers. Spring is coming! (Photos by my daughter)

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

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...

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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...

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Ahem... 🤢 No shortage of takers, apparently. 😬 tvpworld.com/84953068/pol...

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is fun: textfx.withgoogle.com play with words; alliteration, collocations, acronyms...

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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.

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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!

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

🇩🇪Buzzword of the Week is "Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz" (@theguardian.com: “influx limitation law”). Plus "Brandmauer" ("firewall"), I suppose. Here's an explainer by a German journalist and linguist (in German): blog.skilliga.com/buzzword-of-...

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 31/01/2025

Five years on from Brexit, London remains a European city, where European Londoners are valued and cherished. You are our neighbours, colleagues, friends and loved ones. Thank you for making London your home. You are wanted here—and always will be.

On the fifth anniversary of Brexit, I want all European Londoners to know that you are welcome and wanted in our city.

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

When I first started working here, I really struggled finding my booth! The place is impressive, but not super easy to navigate. European Parliament, Strasbourg, building named after 🇫🇷 politician Louise Weiss. Glass = transparent democracy; seemingly unfinished roof = ongoing-ness of the 🇪🇺project.

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Odd but cool. A nondescript hotel in Strasbourg, bland and grey. But if you take the stairs instead of the lift, a different world appears, with more colour and character.

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Latest in 🤖 #AI in interpreting: Meta’s new #xl8 model, SeamlessM4T, can translate speech directly to speech, without having to go through text first: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... It's claimed to be 23% more accurate than its rivals. 🤔 "Nearly a Babel Fish": spectrum.ieee.org/machine-tran... #1nt

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A new resource for interpreters, translators & trainers from @ec.europa.eu: Knowledge Centre on Translation and Interpretation; DG Interpretation & DG Translation's resources merged into "an all-inclusive hub" for #xl8 #1nt professionals. 👉 knowledge-centre-translation-interpretation.ec.europa.eu/en

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Heads up ⚠️ Here are some great-looking conferences coming in 2025! 🔖 👉 skilliga.com/conferences -- feel free to add more here +to Skilliga🪁🙂 Feb 🔸 Interpreting Europe 2025: AI x AI Artificial Intelligence for Augmented Interpretation, Brussels🇧🇪+🧑‍💻, @ec.europa.eu's DG Interpretation | free 1/5

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

From my conversation with Gemini yesterday. Really, I feel Google's AI model is a little too "sweet" sometimes.

screenshot of a conversation:
haha, pls don't be so nice, it's weird

Haha, point taken! I'll try to dial down the enthusiasm a bit. 😉
Sometimes I get carried away with the positive feedback. I'm still under development, and learning to strike the right balance in my responses.
Thanks for the honest feedback! It helps me improve. 😊

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This made me laugh hard. 🤣 (If I'm honest, I like FLERBS much better than DUST MOTES.) Spotted in this week’s New Yorker by my husband, who said: “Sound familiar?”. Just need to be careful our daughter's aware that some of the odd / funny words I use sometimes are actually made-up! 🫣😆

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Only in France 😁 Sorting through photos from a recent holiday. On our way to the Alps, my family & I stayed in a hotel in Dijon. This was our view at breakfast 👀 Having grown up in (still) strongly Catholic Poland, I can tell you someone would have a word with the management back in my home country!

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Do you know Skilliga? skilliga.com is a free directory and calendar (skilliga.com/calendar) of training and CPD events and courses for translators and interpreters. Run by volunteers. Plus blog.skilliga.com with tips from trainers and 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🇵🇱 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇹🇷 buzzword reports. (New contributors welcome! 🤗)

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Blast from the (communist) past at Warsaw Airport, Poland. Looks like the iconic Jelcz "Cucumber" 🚌. In a bar.

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

As spotted in a south London park today

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Green and coffee. I don't have any intriguing caption. Just that those two cheered me up today

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

And here's a 🎄postcard from my last work trip of 2024, & one of my favourite places to work. Not an easy year overall, but I'm counting my blessings. Like travel with (relatively) few restrictions, supportive family, friends & colleagues, a nice safe home. & all the little things -like this one...

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Monika Kokoszycka @monikakokoszycka.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Beautiful autumnal colours in Strasbourg... on my way to work.

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