Hi! Welcome to the Complete Interpreter podcast by the Interpreting Coach.

Why 'Complete Interpreter'? Because you're not just a translation machine, you're also a person and a business owner, and I hope to help you take a 360 view of yourself and share some great tried-and-tested strategies to improve your interpreting skills, mindset, use of language, and marketing.

In this episode, I talk about Latin words or phrases that are commonly used in English.

ad hoc: for a particular purpose
ad lib: improvise
ad infinitum: for ever
alma mater: your university
alumnus/alumna: graduate of a particular university
bona fide: in good faith, genuine
carpe diem: seize the day
a caveat: condition, objection
de facto/de jure: in reality/in law
deus ex machina: a plot device (in a play or book) to resolve an impossible problem
ergo: therefore
e.g. (exempli gratia = for example), i.e. (id est = in other words)
etcetera
in camera: behind closed doors
in situ: on the spot
mea culpa: it's my fault
per capita: per person
per diem: daily (e.g. daily allowance)
persona non grata: an unwelcome person
per se: in itself, specifically
prima facie: at first sight
quid pro quo: 'this for that', an exchange
status quo: state of affairs
verbatim: word for word
vice versa: the other way round

Mens sana in corpore sano: a healthy mind in a healthy body
Pecunia not olet: money doesn't stink
Plenus venter non studet libenter: a full belly doesn't like studying!

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Sophie (aka The Interpreting Coach)

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