{"id":160,"date":"2006-09-23T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=160"},"modified":"2006-09-23T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T08:15:00","slug":"irish-interpreters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/irish-interpreters\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish interpreters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,13509-2370731,00.html\">article in The Times<\/a> this morning about the difficulties of finding Irish interpreters for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/\">European Parliament<\/a>.  As it says in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the Irish campaign for language recognition, there is not a single specialised conference-level interpreter\u2019s course in the Republic. [&#8230;] The problem is that, in most EU countries, most people speak their own language. Irish is one of the official languages of the Irish Republic but maybe only 1 or 2 per cent of the population truly speak it on an everyday basis.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article in The Times this morning about the difficulties of finding Irish interpreters for the European Parliament. As it says in the article: Despite the Irish campaign for language recognition, there is not a single specialised conference-level interpreter\u2019s course in the Republic. [&#8230;] The problem is that, in most EU countries, most people speak their own language. Irish is one of the official languages of the Irish Republic but maybe only 1 or 2 per cent of the population truly speak it on an everyday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}