NIKI BOEHM

Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Explorer, Foodie, Global soul, Philanthropist, Photographer, World traveler

Feminism. Social change. Environmental protection. Health education. Equality. Books. Languages. Travel. Landscape Photography.

Travel as part of compulsory education. Language learning outside the classroom. Mandatory foreign language learning at every school in the world. Learning foreign languages opens up our minds to other cultures in a way that can only enrich our lives and understanding of the world. Understanding other cultures and civilizations is the only way to promote tolerance towards diversity and respect for the world around us.

Conference Interpreting, Language Teaching, Proofreading, subtitling, translating

I have been watching TED talks online for quite a few years now (and have recently attended TEDxThessaloniki, TEDMED Live Athens and TEDxAcademy in 2013 and 2015), as many of the themes dealt with are of interest to me and to my line of work (conference interpreter/translator covering a wide range of issues, e.g. international relations/affairs, environmental issues, health care issues, financial affairs, humanitarian issues, development etc.). Having dabbled in subtitling in the past I decided to use my skills to contribute to the TED initiative myself.

Thin slicing (Read Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink: the power of thinking without thinking" for more on that)