Carl Gene Fordham

[Photo:courtesy of Carl Gene Fordham]

Carl Gene Fordham is a doctoral candidate at Peking University and a Ph.D. recipient of the Confucius Institute's China Fellowship - that is part of the institute's New Sinology Program. Even with 20 PLUS years of learning Mandarin, this Australian national still feels like he hasn't gotten it quite yet. A NAATI-accredited Chinese-English translator, Carl also has over eight years' experience in professional translation under his belt, mainly in the Australian legal, business and immigration domains. He has been a learner of Chinese language since primary school. On the sidelines he runs the popular blog www.carlgene.com, a blog that is of course about Chinese-English translation. In this episode of the program, he helps Nillah Nyakoa understand the world of translating and interpreting.