If you are a terminology and a social media lover you will for sure enjoy our proposal for today. Let us introduce you to one of the most interesting terminology channels in English in Telegram: teleTermino.
What is TeleTermino
Telegram gives you the ability to send messages and photos with a self-destruct timer, such as other popular applications for your smartphone. It is available for both iOs and Android. The peculiarity of this cloud-based instant messaging service is that you can subscribe to different channels and follow their content for free. You can choose among so many specialised channels such as teleTermino which is the one that we want to introduce to you.
It was created by the Iranian terminologist Besharat Fathi. You can discover more about her terminology related activities through her blog.
Besharat has created teleTermino in order to help linguistists and terminologists from her own country to connect with social media as Telegram in Iran is one of the most used platforms.
What you can find in TeleTermino
There is a big quantity of interesting exercises related to terminology that you can use to practise, learn and enjoy. The aim of the channel is to demonstrate the relatedness of terminology to other various domains of study, to increase the role and the importance of terminology in our professional life, to present the latest trends and tendencies in terminology and, finally, to promote the terminology knowledge with a wide range of activities.
TeleTermino offers you a very interesting bibliography to have an extra read after completing each activity with definitions of key concepts, a forum to participate in the debates and also some interesting quizzes. This is a great opportunity to connect with other specialists from all around the world.
You can connect with Besharat by sending her an e-mail to: tele.termino@gmail.com and by having a look at her terminology channel at: https://t.me/teleTermino.
Written by Olga Jeczmyk: Translator-Interpreter, Social Media and Content Manager as well as Communication and Terminology Trainee. Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament in Luxembourg.
Sources:
- Brenes, P. (2016) Terminology goes to telegram! Available at: http://bit.ly/2jPTnia (Accessed: 16 January 2017).
- Fathi, B. (2016) Terminosophy. Available at: http://bit.ly/2itiPxC (Accessed: 16 January 2017).
- Williams, R. (2014) What is telegram: The new WhatsApp? Available at: http://bit.ly/2itiWcw (Accessed: 16 January 2017).