We are fascinated by words and languages. Armed by a passion-turned-profession, we have created a wide range of services that ensure sound communication and bring people, countries, nations, companies and organizations closer together. A short visit to our website will convince you.
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Podium has achieved a major success, which reflects the company’s commitment to high quality, personalized and consistent services in a contemporary working environment. Triple certification according to the ISO 9001:2015, 17100:2015 and 23155:22 standards is not just a formality for our company; it constitutes concrete proof of our ongoing efforts for development and growth in…
The Winter Translation Forum is undoubtedly a framework for dialogue and exchange of views between translation and interpreting professionals. Specifically, the forum in question is used to discuss current affairs relating to the professional field of translation and conference interpreting. The conference organizers invited me to make a presentation on the current situation in the…
Over the last few months, Podium has worked with two different national television channels, ERT and ANT1, to cover all major international events taking place all over the world. This started with the most important event, the war in the Ukraine; from the very start, Podium has worked in the studios of the Greek national…
The past few years have seen an increase in discussion about gender identity, i.e. a person’s perception of the gender to which they belong, whether biological or psychological. The concept of non-binary gender identity, or being genderqueer, is one of the concepts introduced in this discussion; it allows for the existence of a large range…
Often, when asked what we do for a living, we interpreters come away with the feeling that few people actually know what our profession is about, and what our professional life looks like. So we’ve decided to use this blog to bring a little light to the ‘mystery’, and to share some basic aspects of…
In the not so distant past, the image of a translator or interpreter lugging an overstuffed suitcase from location to location was almost commonplace. The suitcase would be full of the tools of their trade – volumes and volumes of general or specialized multilingual dictionaries and reference books. Gradually, with the passage of time and…
Continuing our exploration on the “major” and “minor” languages around us, today we look at a language with a very long and glorious history, which Greeks often invoke when they want to say that they speak a language fluently. Now, let’s take a look at 7 things that we all need to know about the…
Walking through the aisles of a bookshop searching for a book, either as a gift to someone or to read ourselves, there are many factors that will attract our attention and make us read the back cover to decide whether to buy it or not. Others are attracted by a pretty cover, others are captured…
It is often thought – mistakenly in our opinion – that the summer is for reading “light” books under the sun or in the shade of a tree; for the vast majority of people, summer reading equates with easy books, with no great literary depth or essence, or at least without any content beyond digestible…
Both translation companies and individual translators have often had to deal with potential clients pushing for a quick delivery, using various arguments, ranging from “how long can it take, it’s only three pages”, to “I would do it myself in a couple of hours, but I’m swamped with other stuff…” So how long does a…
Very often, interpreters, who because of the nature of their profession have – or should have – a broad general knowledge of such things as peoples, languages and cultures, become the recipients of comments and questions about their working languages and others. That’s why we decided to use our blog to shed some light on…
Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”, gate 9, VIP lounge: a private meeting between Pope Francis and the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Nikos Dendias, has just been completed, in the presence of their two interpreters alone. The brief farewell ceremony for Pope Francis is in progress. A few minutes later, an Aegean Airlines plane…
What do the television studios in Liosia, the OSE (Hellenic Railways Organisation) Railway Museum in Piraeus, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and luxury hotels in Chalkidiki and the southern suburbs of Attica all have in common? What “invisible” thread binds Ms Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Mr Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President of the…
Unlike translation, which involves transferring written texts from one language to another, interpreting is exclusively about oral communication. Over time, the increasing need for human communication and the breaking down of geographical barriers through the development of technology bring about ongoing changes to the field of interpreting. As things stand today, we can distinguish between…
The mission and purpose of live events (conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.) has always been to allow the participants to exchange views and opinions; perhaps the most important element, however, was that participants had the opportunity to experience these unique events in person. Interpersonal contact is, after all, irreplaceable by definition. Given the global pandemic that…
This idiom is used to say that because one good thing has happened, it is not, therefore, certain that a situation is going to improve. The initial saying, taken from one of Aesop’s fables, is “One swallow does not make a spring” (μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ), with the swallow sometimes replaced by a cuckoo.…
Imagine this: you are invited to a meal, and there are two options for the main course. The first is the host’s grandmother’s meatballs, a dish that ignites a sense of nostalgia and warmth in most of our imaginations; or a plate of meatballs prepared by the most advanced culinary robot, which, besides following each…
About 10 years ago, five translators and interpreters, from three different generations, but united by independently successful careers in the field and a common passion for multilingual communication, joined forces to establish Podium. Today, looking back at what we have achieved, we feel justified by our decision and full of confidence to move forward in…
In June 2019, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation contacted Podium, a company in which I am a partner, and asked us to provide Greek-to-English interpreting for the hearings of the Golden Dawn members. More specifically, the «HumanRights360» non-governmental organization and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, had invited famous and established sketch artists from abroad, to attend the…
As is often said, an interpreter is a speaker’s voice in another language. Yet, how much do we really know about being an interpreter, and how much is still obscure? Are interpreters simply machines that transfer words from one language to another, or are they more than that? What is their role? Can anyone be…
