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Breaking Attorney Client Privilege: “Who, Me?”
Breaking Attorney Client Privilege: “Who, Me?” By: Hilda Shymanik A f...
13 November, 2024 / 14 Comments
It’s Always a Good Day to Make New Friends
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05 November, 2024 / 2 Comments
Something We Never Talk About
There’s something we never want to talk about. Not unless it comes knocking on...
24 October, 2024 / 8 Comments
The Reminder on Consideration for Team Interpreting
Have you ever been on assignments that booked you for a hearing but turned out t...
14 October, 2024 / 8 Comments
If I Had the Ear of an Attorney or Judge for One Hour
When the topic comes up among my colleagues of discussing our work as interprete...
02 October, 2024 / 10 Comments
Teamwork in the Courtroom and Beyond
Any seasoned interpreter will tell you why we work in teams on long assignments....
24 September, 2024 / 5 Comments
Language Access Virtually – meeting people where they are
The cat is out of the bag. You can’t un-ring a bell. These are a couple of say...
19 September, 2024 / 7 Comments
A Balancing Act
Over a year ago, I landed a great gig. I work four days a week under an open-end...
11 September, 2024 / 21 Comments
The Curious Interpreter
In a prior blog, I wrote about the interpreter’s qualifications from a Human R...
04 September, 2024 / 11 Comments
Brain Marathon Training
Dear Readers, Happy September! I’ll never understand how, but time just keeps ...
27 August, 2024 / 4 Comments
Reflect the respect that you deserve
To quote Shakespeare, “apparel oft proclaims the man”. It has taken me over ...
21 August, 2024 / 15 Comments
A history of the code of ethics for judiciary interpreters
Let me begin with a disclaimer: documentation about the early codes of ethics fo...
13 August, 2024 / 16 Comments
The Interpreter Shortage in Wisconsin Courts
Introduction As an interpreter with over 22 years of experience, I have witnesse...
06 August, 2024 / 15 Comments
The Court Interpreter Job Under the Human Resources Lens
In Wisconsin, the State Court Interpreter Program and certification are turning ...
23 July, 2024 / 20 Comments
Saved by the Bell
Many times, I am saved by the bell. Last week I was in court, on time waiting fo...
15 July, 2024 / 16 Comments
The hidden cost of remote interpreting: is it really a cost-saving solution?
After Covid, everyone scrambled to adapt to the new way of life, trying to resto...
08 July, 2024 / 6 Comments
One more reason why the judiciary interpreters code of professional responsibility needs to be revised
The United States District Courts and Circuit Courts of Appeal have said time an...
01 July, 2024 / 9 Comments
NAJIT’s 45th Annual Conference
I came to the profession as many of you did, if you started your interpreting ca...
30 March, 2024 / 2 Comments
The Assignment of My Dreams
Well, folks, I did it! I got my dream assignment. Perhaps surprisingly, it wasn...
11 March, 2024 / 20 Comments
Emergency Medical Coverage Funds
Several weeks ago, a friend and freelance colleague fell in the cafeteria of the...
06 March, 2024 / 12 Comments
Quality control or hidden systemic barrier?
I know several interpreters who are terrible with computers yet exceptional with...
27 February, 2024 / 8 Comments
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
I have to be really honest. Every time I hear about a problem here or there with...
19 February, 2024 / 6 Comments
The Couch: Register a Business?
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
15 February, 2024 / 4 Comments
Exploring ways to do business: An Interpreter Run Cooperative
We are always writing about colleagues asking us about fees, and we are horrifie...
06 February, 2024 / 8 Comments
Did you say you wanted a volunteer interpreter, Your Honor?
In most states, a bilingual individual who wishes to be on the court’s roster ...
22 January, 2024 / 9 Comments
Promotion or Demotion? The Perceived Value of Interpreters
My heart is racing and the more I think about it, the angrier I get. I was in co...
16 January, 2024 / 25 Comments
The Couch: Coaching the Defendant
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
09 January, 2024 / 11 Comments
From Thanksgiving to the New Year
Are you ever surprised by how we go from the Thanksgiving holiday, a season of t...
02 January, 2024 / 4 Comments
When we advocate for interpreters, are we not also advocating for the LEP population?
I have been turning this question around in my head for a while, since someone r...
18 December, 2023 / 9 Comments
Simultaneous Interpreting: Accurate or Timely?
“Elephants have six toes.” “Sally sells seashells by the seashore.” “M...
11 December, 2023 / 7 Comments
The Couch: Manipulative and Sly Lawyer
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
04 December, 2023 / 16 Comments
A Judge’s Discretion
Early on in my interpreting career, I learned an important lesson: the Judge is ...
27 November, 2023 / 16 Comments
Stitches of Connection: The Small, Welcoming, and Tight-Knit Interpreter Community in Puerto Rico
In the heart of Puerto Rico, a hidden treasure, thrives a small, close community...
20 November, 2023 / 3 Comments
Outed by AI? How to Right the Wrong
“Your Honor, why don’t we have the interpreter read the script generated by ...
14 November, 2023 / 11 Comments
Whose interpreter is it, anyway?
For a long time, I have wondered why the interpreting profession is respected mo...
06 November, 2023 / 14 Comments
Why Not Go Wireless?
Using wireless interpreting equipment provides a plethora of advantages. So why ...
30 October, 2023 / 5 Comments
Interpreter as Actor: An Epiphany
Three years ago I retired from thirty years as a Spanish<>English court in...
26 October, 2023 / 10 Comments
Does the term Limited English Proficient need rethinking?
As we were reading the Summer 2023 issue of Proteus (a great issue, by the way),...
10 October, 2023 / 1 Comment
Don’t whisper, speak up!
Pain in the back of your throat. A pocket full of cough drops. Dry, hoarse cough...
02 October, 2023 / 4 Comments
Hidden in plain sight: Native Roots
The popular phrase “follow the money” is what people recommend when you are ...
25 September, 2023 / 4 Comments
The Couch: Finding Things a Bit Too Funny?
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
18 September, 2023 / 7 Comments
The strive for perfect pitch in tonal languages
You are sure to have encountered jokes concerning non-Thai speakers’ mistakes ...
12 September, 2023 / 8 Comments
How do we do this?
There is a practice in some of the courts where I have worked, in which the judg...
06 September, 2023 / 8 Comments
An Ode to Failure
“Tell me about your mistakes,” Sara Blakely’s father used to ask every nig...
29 August, 2023 / 10 Comments
Unleash Your Potential by Volunteering for a NAJIT Committee!
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? NAJIT invites you to empowe...
28 August, 2023 / No comment
The Juracan Juracan Case
This article will exclusively address the interpretation aspect of the proceedin...
21 August, 2023 / 16 Comments
Salsa a la Sullivan
The Milwaukee-Chicago urban corridor has a diverse offering of food markets. Thi...
14 August, 2023 / 7 Comments
A Family Affair
When Barb Fisher began interpreting for Marshallese-speaking people in 2011, she...
07 August, 2023 / 10 Comments
Could we all use a scheduler?
Last fall, I started calculating the time it takes me to do my work including tr...
01 August, 2023 / 6 Comments
NAJIT Joins with More than 500 Organizations to Help Build Tomorrow’s Workforce
Groups Will Advocate to Help Pass the Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforc...
31 July, 2023 / 1 Comment
Qualis Lingua Personae
Experienced court professionals and many ordinary common citizens alike in both ...
26 July, 2023 / 9 Comments
On the Witness Stand: How the Federal Rules of Evidence can guide the interpreters’ performance
Direct Examination: Could you please tell us what driving instructions, ...
17 July, 2023 / 13 Comments
Meanwhile, in Canada…
Much ink has been spilled of late on the issue of court-interpreter pay. Here in...
19 June, 2023 / 10 Comments
Double Down on Yourself. Know What You Are Worth!
When I started freelancing again after six years of work in a staff position, ei...
30 May, 2023 / 16 Comments
Interpreters Are Worthless
It was one of those weeks when everyone hates the interpreter. Weather is bad. C...
23 May, 2023 / 7 Comments
What is “privilege”?
No, I don’t mean the social “privilege” we all enjoy as interpreters or tr...
15 May, 2023 / 6 Comments
The Couch: Forget Everything Else
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
08 May, 2023 / 10 Comments
The Art of Being Good Enough
This past March, I had the privilege of hosting a community coffee hour for one ...
02 May, 2023 / 20 Comments
20%-30% – Among other things
I happen to be a state certified interpreter. By no means does this indicate...
25 April, 2023 / 11 Comments
The Power of the Inflected Voice
We hardly pay attention to the way in which we say things, but we certainly know...
17 April, 2023 / 9 Comments
NAJIT 44th Annual Conference (2023)
Coming Full Circle This is one of the last blogs I will write while serving as N...
10 April, 2023 / 2 Comments
The Couch: Behavior or Personality?
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
06 April, 2023 / 8 Comments
Guilty or Not Guilty: In Our Role it’s Irrelevant
I was recently looking for something to watch on TV when I stumbled upon Amer He...
27 March, 2023 / 8 Comments
Sometimes I feel like a nut…
Does anyone remember that commercial for a chocolate-covered coconut candy bar t...
20 March, 2023 / 4 Comments
The Real Story on Court Interpreter Pay
After 17 years without a raise, the per-diem court interpreters in Massachusetts...
14 March, 2023 / 9 Comments
The Lovely Land of Language Interference
The following article by Athena was published a while back. The NAJIT Observer ...
07 March, 2023 / No comment
Massachusetts Per Diem Court Interpreters Win Pay Increase… But Now Face A New Challenge
Per diem court interpreters succeed in securing a pay adjustment after 17 years!...
27 February, 2023 / 10 Comments
Are You Reading the Headlines?
Have you seen what’s going on in recent news? Freelance court interpreters in ...
21 February, 2023 / 3 Comments
Moving forward… but where do we go from here?
The act of interpreting has been taking place ever since two groups of people me...
13 February, 2023 / 9 Comments
Is it Better to be Hired by Assignment or by the Day?
Per Diem vs. Per Assignment I have been a freelance interpreter since January 20...
06 February, 2023 / 13 Comments
Language and Technology Evolve Only as Fast as the Humans who Speak it and Make It
Two questions: 1) Is technology going to replace us? (Ironically, the “age-old...
30 January, 2023 / 10 Comments
You can’t have your cake and eat it, too
It’s a lot of fun when you work in a venue where you can get together with col...
16 January, 2023 / 15 Comments
Professional Standards: It’s Up to Us
During the first NAJIT event I ever attended, the 35th Annual Conference in Las...
09 January, 2023 / 3 Comments
New Year’s Resolutions: The Why, the Way and the Joy
Dear Friends and Colleagues, By the time you read these words, it’ll be Januar...
03 January, 2023 / 7 Comments
Happy Holidays!
On behalf of the Blog team and NAJIT as a whole, we hope you are having a very h...
28 December, 2022 / No comment
It’s been that kind of a year!
I know it may seem like a tired old cliché but, come on! You have to agree with...
19 December, 2022 / 6 Comments
CITI: A New Convert
I first heard about the University of Arizona’s Court Interpreter Training Ins...
12 December, 2022 / 11 Comments
Let’s Get Loud: Taking Off the Cloak of Invisibility
Oh, no! It happened again. A client insulted you. They had a non-native, non-tra...
08 December, 2022 / 10 Comments
The Couch: A Moment of Weakness
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
29 November, 2022 / 2 Comments
Celebrating Gratitude
This week, the Blog team felt it pertinent to re-publish a short post from 2019,...
21 November, 2022 / 4 Comments
Big Brain Club
During the first pandemic winter, I took on one of the hardest teaching assignme...
15 November, 2022 / 12 Comments
Building the New
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, ...
07 November, 2022 / 14 Comments
Transcription In The Interpreting Profession: An Exciting Time To Be An Interpreter
We have all been there: tired and in need of a partner. Could there exist a mach...
31 October, 2022 / 9 Comments
The Couch: Witness Protection
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
24 October, 2022 / 8 Comments
From the Classroom to the Courtroom: A Unique Transition from Teaching to Interpreting
I was so comfortable, but man was I bored. I had the privilege of being a Spanis...
17 October, 2022 / 3 Comments
Interpreting Is Not Always Improv
There is one aspect of all judiciary interpreters’ certification exams that I ...
10 October, 2022 / 11 Comments
Not All Language Communities Are Served Equally
Interpreters are proving to be an indispensable resource to indigenous communiti...
03 October, 2022 / 1 Comment
The Couch: Can’t quite put my finger on it…
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
26 September, 2022 / 8 Comments
A Spanish interpreter communicating in Polish? Not quite!
I have been familiar with nonverbal language my whole life. As a child, I used t...
19 September, 2022 / 5 Comments
Dear Fellow NAJIT-ers
Dear Fellow NAJIT-ers, Happy September! How the heck is it September again?! Tim...
12 September, 2022 / 19 Comments
A Courtroom’s Ecosystem
There are big fish and little fish in a courtroom’s ecosystem. Judges are defi...
06 September, 2022 / 5 Comments
Freelance or Staff Interpreter?
I know that many interpreters prefer the freelance world, and there are many suc...
29 August, 2022 / 20 Comments
Calling All Potential Blog Authors
Interested in contributing to our blog? The NAJIT Observer needs you! The shared...
23 August, 2022 / 1 Comment
Ideas to explain our profession to others
As judiciary interpreters, we often run into misunderstandings about our profess...
17 August, 2022 / 19 Comments
Learning where this all started
I was the little girl who loved going to school and begged her parents to put he...
08 August, 2022 / 13 Comments
The ATA Certification Exam
You may have heard of the ATA (American Translators Association) Certification E...
01 August, 2022 / 13 Comments
The Couch: We know better because…
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
25 July, 2022 / 2 Comments
Are your rates for remote interpreting the same as in person?
An agency that I have not worked with before recently got in touch, and we had t...
19 July, 2022 / 13 Comments
Interpreters Are Not Tools
There is a rather distorted perception held by some legal professionals about th...
11 July, 2022 / 15 Comments
The Couch: A Disagreement on Terms of Payment
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
27 June, 2022 / 14 Comments
Who’s your client?
Interpreters have many clients. I don’t mean who pays. I mean who is the benef...
20 June, 2022 / 5 Comments
The Subjects Matter
The practice of interpretation allows interpreters to take a break from themselv...
07 June, 2022 / 7 Comments
The Couch: A Partner Whisked Out of Sight
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
31 May, 2022 / 11 Comments
It’s Not a Matter of Trust and Credibility
I have been an interpretation and translation practitioner for fifteen years, an...
23 May, 2022 / 5 Comments
A Threat to Our Profession
A few decades ago, “language access” was not really a phrase. Litigants who ...
16 May, 2022 / 20 Comments
Best Practices for Witness Preparation
I was talking to a friend and colleague recently about all the in-person work we...
09 May, 2022 / 15 Comments
Interpreting Into the Future: How Technology Shaped the Interpreting Industry
How could modern translations function without technology? There’s no denying ...
02 May, 2022 / 2 Comments
The Couch: We don’t have all day…
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
25 April, 2022 / 7 Comments
NAJIT 43rd Annual Conference: Is it worth it?
A few days ago, I was preparing the paperwork for the Wisconsin CEU (Continuing ...
18 April, 2022 / No comment
Federalism as Played Out in the Court System
A friend of mine is certified as an interpreter in the courts of a dozen or so s...
11 April, 2022 / 3 Comments
The Couch: Can You Do This One Thing For Me Real Quick?
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
04 April, 2022 / 7 Comments
One profession, one name
Can we please standardize the name we use to refer to our profession and those w...
29 March, 2022 / 23 Comments
On the Topic of Monotasking
This post is on the topic of monotasking. That’s right, you read it correctly....
21 March, 2022 / 8 Comments
Things We’re Not Talking About
This is the war everyone hoped would never happen. And yet it has happened. Most...
14 March, 2022 / 5 Comments
Business As Usual
I had my first business at the age of twenty. It was a furniture store a block a...
08 March, 2022 / 4 Comments
The Couch: A Straw to Break the Camel’s Back
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
28 February, 2022 / 6 Comments
Team Interpreting is a Matter of Due Process
“Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits recipients of federal fina...
21 February, 2022 / 11 Comments
A Dilemma in the Courtroom
THE FOLLOWING IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL DAY IN COURT. What do you do when you are ch...
14 February, 2022 / 20 Comments
A System of Checks and Balances
During my years of interpreting in many different areas, mostly in court and oth...
07 February, 2022 / 9 Comments
When Your Brain Splits in Two
Did you know humans can’t actually multi-task? We are capable of lightning con...
31 January, 2022 / 7 Comments
The Couch: I don’t know him!
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
24 January, 2022 / 12 Comments
The Year of the Tiger: Empowering Judiciary Interpreters
There are many ways to start off the New Year: resolutions to take that yoga cla...
17 January, 2022 / 5 Comments
The Lay of the Land
It was the kind of day that leaves you tired, yet proud. Your arraignment calen...
10 January, 2022 / 16 Comments
New Beginnings
Discoveries As I look back on what stays behind after this eventful 2021, I see ...
03 January, 2022 / 9 Comments
The Couch – Interpreters need impartiality, but so do judges
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contrib...
27 December, 2021 / 14 Comments
Forty years in the courtroom and I still have questions
I am very passionate about being an interpreter and translator. Some of you may ...
17 December, 2021 / 31 Comments
All of a Sudden
We are all in this together, but while we are all in the same sea, we are not al...
11 December, 2021 / 7 Comments
Repetition is Key
I am not a baker. The world of yeasts and doughs, of icing, flour and exact meas...
03 December, 2021 / 17 Comments
A Thanksgiving List
Talking to my mother the other day, I asked her if anything similar to Thanksgiv...
25 November, 2021 / No comment
From aerospace engineering to language industry legislation
Editor’s note: This week’s post will have a special focus. NAJIT is sponsori...
19 November, 2021 / No comment
The Couch – Not a doll
The Couch is a place to exchange ideas and brainstorm, not only for its contribu...
12 November, 2021 / 10 Comments
Are you giving everything you’ve got?
We can’t ask for more than we’re willing to give. This is a maxim for everyt...
05 November, 2021 / 2 Comments
A Pivotal Time of Year
Definition of pivotal[1] 1: of, relating to, or constituting a pivot Autu...
29 October, 2021 / 2 Comments
Do I have enough?
Background Growing up in Mexico, I spent all my Christmases with my paternal gra...
22 October, 2021 / 19 Comments
The Couch – When success depends not only on you
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
15 October, 2021 / 5 Comments
The Trouble With Memory…
The article below was originally posted in 2017. Memory is an interpreter’s be...
08 October, 2021 / 5 Comments
Conferences are a true professional’s wonderland
I just attended the Arizona Translators and Interpreters (ATI) conference last w...
01 October, 2021 / 3 Comments
The Couch – Techmology….
The Couch is a place for readers to engage in stimulating discussion. The subjec...
24 September, 2021 / 7 Comments
The Lovely Land of Language Interference
Have you ever taken a dash of one language with a sprinkle of another, mixed the...
17 September, 2021 / 13 Comments
September is Never an Easy Month
If you grew up on a Caribbean island, or anywhere around the Gulf of Mexico, you...
10 September, 2021 / 9 Comments
It’s Up in the Air
An open or shut case? A couple of weeks ago, a woman I was interpreting for star...
03 September, 2021 / 10 Comments
You’re Missing the Point (Ahí está el detalle)
“No me falte usted al respeto, no soy cualquier cosa, soy el acusado. Yo ahí ...
27 August, 2021 / 14 Comments
Desarraigo (Uprooting)
Uprooting While I was sitting on the couch with my mother, who is currently visi...
20 August, 2021 / 23 Comments
Growing Pains
The article below is a pertinent repost from 2018. The question, “how much sho...
13 August, 2021 / 11 Comments
The Couch – “The New Normal…”
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
06 August, 2021 / 8 Comments
Does the jack of all trades still get the short end of the stick?
“Welcome to one of the world’s most beautiful professions.” That’s a var...
30 July, 2021 / 4 Comments
Releasing the fear of competition
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. – Ryunosuke Sato...
23 July, 2021 / 13 Comments
Message from the Chair
This message from the NAJIT Chair was originally published in the 2021 summer is...
16 July, 2021 / 13 Comments
Reimagining Re Entry
The show on Netflix called The Taco Chronicles came on my radar not long ago. I ...
02 July, 2021 / 4 Comments
Are you ready for summer vacation?
After a year of uncertainties, fear, confusion, isolation, and staying home due ...
23 June, 2021 / 4 Comments
A Virtual Conference: LOTS Interpreter Needs
The first two weekends of June saw our NAJIT colleagues join together from aroun...
18 June, 2021 / 4 Comments
It’s or Its? They’re or Their? You’re or Your? Who’s or Whose?
Other articles in the Get It Write blog discuss the confusion surrounding plura...
05 June, 2021 / No comment
To be or not to be , that is the question…
When I hear fellow interpreters say they entered the profession for their callin...
04 June, 2021 / 17 Comments
Acrobatics: A Metaphor for Interpreting with Confidence and Humility
This article by Athena was first published in November 2014. We liked it so much...
28 May, 2021 / 7 Comments
When your long-standing assumptions are shattered: What now?
Has it ever happened to you that there is something you have believed all your l...
21 May, 2021 / 10 Comments
What’s your story?
As a translator and interpreter, language and words are my passion. I suppose it...
14 May, 2021 / 10 Comments
Mother’s Love Never Dies
As Mother’s Day approaches, I find myself remembering my last day of training ...
07 May, 2021 / 12 Comments
An Audience of Thousands: Interpreting COVID Press Briefings
I pulled up to the National Guard’s State Emergency Operations Center on Monda...
30 April, 2021 / 3 Comments
Virtually Impossible? The Opposite is True!
If I had been told a year ago that NAJIT’s Conference Committee would be organ...
23 April, 2021 / 4 Comments
Embracing our Mother Tongue’s Diversity
I was born Puerto Rican. I was actually born in New York, but that doesn’t mak...
16 April, 2021 / 27 Comments
Expect the Unexpected
Happy April, everyone! Wow. We are one quarter of the way through 2021. It alway...
09 April, 2021 / 2 Comments
Preparing for the “New Normal”
It’s been one year since the WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Vaccination...
02 April, 2021 / 4 Comments
Diversification: Are You In?
Last year, I had the honor of participating in the Multilingual Magazine 2020 Su...
26 March, 2021 / 3 Comments
Taking Charge of our Profession
I have recently become particularly interested in exploring what sign language a...
19 March, 2021 / 24 Comments
The Perils of Telephonic Interpreting
“Excuse me, speaking as the interpreter, could you please move the phone close...
12 March, 2021 / 3 Comments
A Roundabout Way to do Remote Simultaneous Interpreting
It is hard to believe that it has been a year since I started working from home ...
05 March, 2021 / 29 Comments
Let’s Talk About Money
One of the hardest things in our profession to get a handle on is how much to ch...
26 February, 2021 / 9 Comments
First Person Plural
I was listening to an interview of Korean American author Cathy Park Hong about ...
19 February, 2021 / 15 Comments
The Fine Art of Making Mistakes
“Oh, that was terrible! I can’t believe how bad that looks,” said my 8-yea...
12 February, 2021 / 9 Comments
The Lesson from my Kitchen
“I am going to make something special for dinner tonight,” announced...
05 February, 2021 / 11 Comments
Why Educational Interpretation is the Field for Me
I truly believe life is a great journey, and it sometimes takes us places we did...
29 January, 2021 / 12 Comments
How to Shamelessly Steal Language Skills from our Friends and Colleagues
January is the month of the year when most of us want to start fresh with a clea...
22 January, 2021 / 6 Comments
Shredding Time!
I love birthdays, anniversaries, and—of course—new years, new decades, and n...
15 January, 2021 / 7 Comments
Finding a Home at NAJIT
Before becoming a staff interpreter in 2015, I freelanced for more than seven ye...
08 January, 2021 / 7 Comments
A Look at Data on Changes in our Profession
It’s January 1st, and like everyone else, I hope 2021 will be a better year. W...
01 January, 2021 / 6 Comments
A Year Like Any Other
Well, folks, it’s December. And looking back, 2020 was just another boring yea...
18 December, 2020 / 4 Comments
My Holiday Wish List
I’ve been thinking about the lists of wonderful gifts children wish for when t...
11 December, 2020 / 10 Comments
How Rituals and Traditions Make Us Who We Are
“We are what we practice” –said Dr. Shauna’s Shapiro in her ...
04 December, 2020 / 2 Comments
A Lesson in Perseverance: Reflections on the Federal Certification Exam
Every career has its pathway to the top. The general consensus among court inter...
27 November, 2020 / 16 Comments
Harvesting Time
“Wherever you are, be totally there.” Eckhart Tolle My father is 90 years ...
19 November, 2020 / 20 Comments
Lessons from Grace
On a sunny fall day in 2013, I received a phone call from Grace. Who is Grace, y...
13 November, 2020 / 15 Comments
Being Grateful for a Career in Interpreting
I don’t know if it’s the strange times we are living through, or perhaps it...
06 November, 2020 / 12 Comments
Communities of Practice and Other Ways to Break lsolation
In this unprecedented health crisis, language professionals are fortunate becaus...
30 October, 2020 / 3 Comments
Focus Vampires
I’m sure most, if not all, of you have heard about emotional vampires or relat...
23 October, 2020 / 18 Comments
How to Reduce Stress in the Demanding World of Interpreting and Translating
I am not a big fan of Halloween, but I appreciate spooky decorations, creative c...
16 October, 2020 / 8 Comments
An Honest Conversation with Fear
“The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfort...
08 October, 2020 / 11 Comments
The Couch – Avoiding Horror Stories Through Client Education
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
02 October, 2020 / 6 Comments
Losing the Cloak of Invisibility
I like being tucked away in some nondescript area of a courtroom, where I can se...
24 September, 2020 / 28 Comments
Using Transceivers in the Bilingual Courtroom
Interpreting attorney-LEP client communications is an integral and confidential ...
18 September, 2020 / 25 Comments
Interrupting Without Intruding
“One moment, the interpreter needs a repetition,” I said in English, followe...
11 September, 2020 / 13 Comments
Taking on the Role of TNO Editor
It is with a great deal of excitement and anticipation that I let you know that ...
04 September, 2020 / 16 Comments
On Being a NAJIT Volunteer
I used to think that to be an association volunteer you needed to be extraordina...
28 August, 2020 / 4 Comments
Interpreting Then, Now and Beyond
The NAJIT Board of Directors wants to express our deepest appreciation to Giovan...
21 August, 2020 / 3 Comments
The NAJIT Observer – A Journey
When Maria Cristina de la Vega invited me to join the team of contributors to NA...
14 August, 2020 / 3 Comments
Learning to Listen
Imagine this scenario. You’re having an argument (I know, I know, none of us e...
07 August, 2020 / 11 Comments
Hard Doesn’t Mean Impossible!
Another trip back in time. Athena Matilsky’s 2018 article seems very aprop...
31 July, 2020 / 5 Comments
Helping Your Clients to Know YOU
It is sometimes difficult to separate ourselves from our professional persona, e...
24 July, 2020 / 3 Comments
Summer State of Mind Despite the Pandemic
Many of us are trying to figure out how much fun we can have this summer and avo...
17 July, 2020 / No comment
Even When Stakes Are High, Cost Matters
This piece was first published in 2018. Not too long ago, I found myself at an a...
10 July, 2020 / 6 Comments
No Pressure or Anything
7:30am I wake up with a quick, optimistic check to my inbox. No email. Oh well, ...
03 July, 2020 / 19 Comments
The Couch – Working During the Pandemic Can Be Trying
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
26 June, 2020 / 2 Comments
Empowerment Through Self-Care
We often think of self-care as a way to nurture our bodies so that we can stay h...
19 June, 2020 / 2 Comments
Right Between the Eyes
Even in the middle of a pandemic quarantine, none of us were spared. We all got ...
05 June, 2020 / 20 Comments
Ten Ways to Ward Off the Dry Season Doldrums
Once again, we revisit our archives for articles that were well received by our ...
22 May, 2020 / 3 Comments
The Couch – How Have You Adapted to Our New Professional Reality?
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
15 May, 2020 / 7 Comments
Where the Paths of Court Interpreters and Court Reporters Coincide and Where They Diverge
An overdue study Sandro Tomasi has undertaken a comparative study of court inter...
08 May, 2020 / 5 Comments
About Lost and Found Meaning
Having all this “free” time can mean watching movies we would otherwise skip...
01 May, 2020 / 5 Comments
NAJIT Is Counting on YOU!
It’s election time again. And thanks to the efforts of the Nominations Committ...
24 April, 2020 / 3 Comments
The Cat is Out of the Bag
This cat got out of the bag in June 2018. We want to take a trip down memory lan...
17 April, 2020 / 6 Comments
Self-Love in the Time of Corona
Dear Colleagues, Well, goodness me. It would appear that since my last blog post...
10 April, 2020 / 5 Comments
Practical Tips for Dealing with the Coronavirus
This week we have a Guest Author offering us some useful tips for surviving our ...
03 April, 2020 / 2 Comments
More About Staying at Home
I know these are hard times for freelance interpreters. Most of us are used to g...
27 March, 2020 / 6 Comments
The Couch – A few Resources to Help with the Quarantine
In response to the current crisis, The Couch is being proactive and providing a ...
20 March, 2020 / 6 Comments
NAJIT Position Papers Collection: An untapped resource
I would like to draw our readers’ attention to the importance of NAJITR...
11 March, 2020 / 1 Comment
Language Skills-Building for Interpreters
Interpreters face somewhat of a conundrum upon entering the profession. That is,...
06 March, 2020 / 6 Comments
Being a Team Player Doesn’t Always Look the Same
I pride myself on being a team player. I look at each client as a partner. After...
28 February, 2020 / No comment
The Couch – Guidance required: Charging for Travel Time
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
21 February, 2020 / 22 Comments
7 Tips for Working with Court Interpreters
We have another Guest Post. This time, our guest is Ryan Bridges a contributing ...
14 February, 2020 / 5 Comments
Interpreting for Crimes Against Humanity: Giving Victims A Voice
On March 14, 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo became the first person to be found guil...
07 February, 2020 / 6 Comments
If You Hear a Bell, Heed the Warning
Have you ever read something and hear a bell go off in your head? “This word i...
31 January, 2020 / 11 Comments
Muddying the Waters of Interpreting
This post was first published in November 2018. Exactly a week ago today, you wo...
24 January, 2020 / 19 Comments
The Couch – Guidance required: Maintaining My Mother Tongue
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
17 January, 2020 / 10 Comments
Do I Need a Website?
I get asked about personal and business websites all the time, but the answer is...
10 January, 2020 / 20 Comments
Interpreters Want to See You Shine
Editor’s Note: Interpreters Want to See You Shine was first published on L...
03 January, 2020 / 13 Comments
The Year in Review – The Most Popular Posts of 2019
This being the last Friday of the year, we will share below the most popular pos...
27 December, 2019 / No comment
Lots of Resources for LOTS Interpreters
By Athena Matilsky © 2017 Last year I left my job as a Superior Court staff int...
20 December, 2019 / 9 Comments
Thank You for Helping a Colleague Out
We love it when our articles get your attention. And especially when it is one o...
13 December, 2019 / 4 Comments
Court and Conference Interpreting
– So close and so far apart
Well, I made it! One more semester to go. As I write, the train wheels rumble un...
06 December, 2019 / 13 Comments
Celebrating Gratitude
This is a time to celebrate gratitude; a time to recognize, acknowledge and be t...
29 November, 2019 / No comment
Active Learning is a Responsibility
One constant in our jobs is the learning. Be it because of technological develop...
22 November, 2019 / 3 Comments
All Aboard! The 2020 Conferences Calls for Papers Are Out
Association-sponsored conferences for 2020 are starting to put out their calls f...
15 November, 2019 / 3 Comments
The Couch – Guidance required: Guidelines for Medical Interpreters
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
08 November, 2019 / 18 Comments
When You Travel for Work
Being on travel status for work can be very confusing: what charges are allowed?...
01 November, 2019 / 8 Comments
A TNO Double Header
Dear Readers, This week we bring two posts for your delight. Changes on the Boar...
25 October, 2019 / 5 Comments
What We Call Ourselves Matters
Every profession has certain requirements that allow a person to enjoy the benef...
11 October, 2019 / 17 Comments
A Week in the Life of an MCI – Master’s In Conference Interpreting Candidate
Greetings from the Glendon campus in Toronto! I’m currently waiting for my New...
04 October, 2019 / 6 Comments
Words Are Only Part of the Equation
Not long ago, a colleague was trying to justify the practice of charging less, i...
27 September, 2019 / 12 Comments
Four Lessons Learned in the Private Sector that I Apply to my Freelance Business
By Gio Lester © 2017 The number one myth freelancers fall for is that they get ...
20 September, 2019 / 2 Comments
The Couch – Guidance required: Working with hard of hearing individuals
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
13 September, 2019 / 5 Comments
Federal Interpreters or Bust!
This article was first published in November 2017. It seems appropriate that we ...
06 September, 2019 / 3 Comments
Contracts: Is it really a matter of trust?
A few weeks ago, a colleague wrote to The Couch seeking guidance on the matter o...
30 August, 2019 / 1 Comment
What I Wish They Knew, Part II
Below is an anonymized compilation of comments received by The NAJIT Observer ...
23 August, 2019 / 2 Comments
The Couch – Guidance required: Should I really bother with contracts?
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
16 August, 2019 / 12 Comments
Protocol When Dealing with Objectionable Behavior by Colleagues in Interpreting
By Armando Ezquerra Hasbun ©2017 It is bound to happen. You spend most of your ...
09 August, 2019 / 11 Comments
Need to Improve Your Note-Taking? Learn to Listen!
Do you want to know the funny thing about notes? The better you get at taking th...
02 August, 2019 / 9 Comments
Public Speaking is a Necessary Skill for T&I Professionals
Not all of you know, but I am also the General Secretary of the Brazilian associ...
26 July, 2019 / 2 Comments
Practical Apps for Interpreting and Translation Professionals
This article was originally published on September 22, 2017. So much has changed...
19 July, 2019 / 5 Comments
We Learn from Everything Around Us
I will start by saying that interpreters are awesome people who have the ability...
12 July, 2019 / 12 Comments
The Couch – Guidance required
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
05 July, 2019 / 8 Comments
How do Interpreters Work? Here is an answer.
Professor Barry Olsen, two colleagues, two actors and an unknown number of techn...
28 June, 2019 / 2 Comments
The Future of the Language Industry Relies on AI & Remote Work Teams
Once you pass those words – AI and Remote work – you will see that t...
21 June, 2019 / 6 Comments
The Pot of Gold
This article by Janis was first published in July 2017. We liked it so much that...
14 June, 2019 / 3 Comments
NAJIT 40 – It was a blast
This is a collection of Facebook photos taken at NAJIT 40, but mostly it is a sp...
24 May, 2019 / 3 Comments
When Advocacy Backfires
Diplomacy does not come naturally I admit I am not a good diplomat. Although I h...
19 May, 2019 / No comment
The Couch – Guidance required
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our re...
17 May, 2019 / 3 Comments
Got assumptions? Proceed with caution!
This post was originally published on August 2, 2013. It remains just as relevan...
10 May, 2019 / 2 Comments
The Interpreter’s Mistake
Have you ever met the interpreter who knew everything? I have. Well, not really....
02 May, 2019 / 19 Comments
Interpreting: Stepping into the Booth for the First Time
The text below is aimed at individuals who have been trained but are stepping in...
26 April, 2019 / 15 Comments
On Continuing Education
by Bethany Korp (c) 2016 I bet you just rolled your eyes, didn’t you? You are ...
19 April, 2019 / 5 Comments
The Couch – A Matter of Ethics
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our r...
12 April, 2019 / 16 Comments
Why Interpret at Immigration Court?
–Formally known as the Executive Office for Immigration Review, or EOIR Wh...
05 April, 2019 / 35 Comments
When Your “Check Interpreter” Becomes Your “Team Interpreter”
I was recently in the lobby of an office building on my way to a depositi...
29 March, 2019 / 24 Comments
BE IN THE BEST POSITION FOR YOUR DEPOSITION
– By Armando Ezquerra Hasbun © 2017 Depositions can be grueling. Sometime...
22 March, 2019 / 5 Comments
NAJIT 40th Annual Conference
As we began organizing this year’s conference, I thought that the 2019 confere...
15 March, 2019 / 1 Comment
The Couch – The Run-on Client
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for o...
08 March, 2019 / 2 Comments
What are you scared of?
Recently, I have been toying with the possibility of changing my Facebook relati...
01 March, 2019 / 2 Comments
My Sheltered Life – Living on the other side of the coin
This article was originally written in 2017 by Gio Lester © ——̵...
22 February, 2019 / 1 Comment
What have you done for me lately?
We are graced with another guest post. This time, by Maria Ceballos-Wallis. “A...
15 February, 2019 / 7 Comments
Word of the Week: Notary Public
This is a guest post by the blog Translating Lawyers. The subject matter is very...
08 February, 2019 / 30 Comments
Accessibility to Justice: An Interview with Certified Judicial Interpreter Roxane King
This article has been edited for length, with the author’s permission, a...
01 February, 2019 / 14 Comments
Choices
I have been doing this for over 36 years. It is the one thing I have been able t...
25 January, 2019 / 11 Comments
A Look at Translating for the Judiciary
Originally published in January 2015, this post remains relevant. Please enjoy. ...
18 January, 2019 / 3 Comments
5 Tax Reform Changes to Know Before Filing Your 2018 Tax Return
Tax Day is just a few weeks away. Some of us are waiting for their 1099s and hop...
11 January, 2019 / 10 Comments
Reinventing Resolutions: A Road Map to Your Desires
Thick snowflakes are lazily making their way to the ground outside my window her...
04 January, 2019 / 4 Comments
Revisiting 2018 from TNO’s Perspective
This is the last week of 2018. Some of us are feeling relieved, others are sad, ...
28 December, 2018 / No comment
Taking the Florida Courts’ Written Exam
A New Year’s Resolution. I do not believe in New Year’s resolutions, bu...
21 December, 2018 / 5 Comments
Thoughts on Interpreting – the invisible language
– By Gio Lester © 2016 Living in Miami, Florida, a bilingual city for sur...
14 December, 2018 / 15 Comments
A Day in the Life of an MCI
It is Tuesday. Usually that would mean I could sleep in a bit, but today it mean...
07 December, 2018 / 3 Comments
The Couch – Discounts: To Give or not to Give In?
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our r...
30 November, 2018 / 6 Comments
Professional Conferences? Who Needs Them? We all do.
University degrees, certificates and certifications reflect your desire to grow ...
23 November, 2018 / 2 Comments
Why Can’t All Words Be So Simple?
This post was originally published in February 2015. But its subject matter is t...
16 November, 2018 / 5 Comments
What is your professional association doing for you?
Here is a double feature on new member benefits and an overview of upcoming webi...
09 November, 2018 / 2 Comments
Muddying the Waters of Interpreting
Exactly a week ago today, you would have found me in New Orleans with a colleagu...
02 November, 2018 / 10 Comments
From Backwater to Front Page: The Journey of the Supreme Court
by Gio Lester (c) 2018 Now that the heat of the US Supreme Court nomination has...
26 October, 2018 / 1 Comment
The Couch – Guidance required
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our r...
19 October, 2018 / 14 Comments
Mistakes: Managing and Moving On
Editor’s Note: This post by Jennifer De La Cruz was originally published i...
12 October, 2018 / 3 Comments
Dispelling the Top 3 Myths About Study Buddies
As some of you are already aware, this September I embarked on the Master’s in...
05 October, 2018 / 5 Comments
Even When Stakes Are High, Cost Matters
Not too long ago, I found myself at an arbitration in which one of the parties, ...
28 September, 2018 / 3 Comments
Certification Trumps Notarization
I was talking to a colleague friend of mine recently when she mentioned she had ...
21 September, 2018 / 35 Comments
The Couch – Payment Matters. How late is too late to send an invoice?
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our r...
14 September, 2018 / 12 Comments
The Final Frontier
I kind of feel like my fall should be entitled, Conference Interpreting: The Fin...
07 September, 2018 / 14 Comments
Message from the NAJIT Chair
In my first letter as Chair, I would like to thank all of our members for their ...
31 August, 2018 / 2 Comments
Crossing the Cultural Divide
– by Gio Lester (c) 2012 We are Communicators. As translators, interpreter...
24 August, 2018 / 7 Comments
On Weathering Storms and Embracing Change
The recent [June 2013] weather-related tragedies in Oklahoma have been of partic...
17 August, 2018 / 4 Comments
The Couch – The Girl in the Orange Suit
The Couch is a learning place, not only for its contributors but also for our r...
10 August, 2018 / 11 Comments
Embracing My Inner Texan
I was at the annual conference of the Texas Association of Judiciary Interpreter...
03 August, 2018 / 7 Comments
A New Challenge: Sight Translating Texts and Social Media
This is a new aspect of what we do in court interpreting. When Facebook and Inst...
27 July, 2018 / 8 Comments
It finally happened… to me!
It’s one of those things that comes up all the time in social media discussion...
20 July, 2018 / 18 Comments
The Couch – To speak up or not to speak up? What say you?
Our colleague is curious to see how our The Couch readers would handle some pri...
13 July, 2018 / 7 Comments
Team Interpreting Standards – Are we ready?
I remember it well. I had just begun my interpreting career, and I was placed wi...
06 July, 2018 / 11 Comments
A Hug for the Interpreter: My First Experience with Social Services Interpreting
First experiences, when they are positive, leave a taste and a longing for more....
29 June, 2018 / 14 Comments
The Cat is Out of the Bag
Planning is fun. Then, life happens I had planned on writing about my experience...
22 June, 2018 / 26 Comments
Four Interpreters Walk into the Federal Courthouse…
It was not 9:30 AM yet. A woman approaches the information booth and identifies ...
15 June, 2018 / 9 Comments
When Truth Trumps Fiction
Leslie Tabarez is a State Court Certified Interpreter in Pennsylvania. In this g...
08 June, 2018 / No comment
The Real Life of Interpreters
So, what’s all this got to do with interpreters in real life? Well, it’s not...
01 June, 2018 / 9 Comments
Judiciary Interpreting in Brazil
May Soon Enough Become a Reality
Not speaking the language of the country you are in, regardless of the situation...
25 May, 2018 / 10 Comments
Team Interpreting Boundaries
Team interpreting* is a process. There is no one single way to work as part of a...
17 May, 2018 / 11 Comments
The Couch – Feeling Discriminated Against
F.D.A. is on The Couch. Read the post and see if you can lend a hand. Please not...
11 May, 2018 / 34 Comments
Georgia Peaches & Interpreting Conferences
Last week found me in Atlanta, Georgia for a whirlwind weekend with the Atlanta ...
04 May, 2018 / 5 Comments
Understanding the AO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-Courts-AdministrativeOffice-Seal.svg The A...
27 April, 2018 / 17 Comments
The Couch – A Thank You
There is no new colleague on The Couch this time. We thought it was our turn to...
20 April, 2018 / 1 Comment
There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
– a personal story
María Cristina did not lack vision, as proven by her personal account in this a...
13 April, 2018 / 1 Comment
Hard Doesn’t Mean Impossible!
This week it was my turn to post on the NAJIT blog, and I asked some of my colle...
06 April, 2018 / 10 Comments
How Public Speaking Skills can be Helpful to Interpreters
Have you ever given thought to your public speaking skills? Whether your answer ...
30 March, 2018 / 2 Comments
The Couch – Only in Florida!
Or is it?
There is a new colleague on The Couch. Read the post and see if you can lend a h...
23 March, 2018 / 12 Comments
Join Us in the City by the Bay for NAJIT 39
As my colleague Ernest Niño-Murcia stated in his candidate statement to run for...
16 March, 2018 / 2 Comments
Growing Pains
Growing pains in a profession, or an association, can manifest themselves in man...
09 March, 2018 / 5 Comments
One Word Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Have you ever heard the term, word picture? If you are a trained interpreter, ch...
02 March, 2018 / 4 Comments
My Woman, Mi Mujer, Minha Mulher
The song “My Woman, My Woman, My Wife” became a hit in 1970 when Mar...
23 February, 2018 / 7 Comments
Maybe It’s Time to Make Friends With Spanglish
Maybe it is time to make friends with Spanglish. …And Italish, Portinglish, Ha...
16 February, 2018 / 19 Comments
Ten Ways to Ward Off the Dry Season Doldrums
The dry season doldrums are cyclical, but we are usually caught off guard. And i...
09 February, 2018 / 9 Comments
When Rewards and Frustrations Go Hand in Hand
By Gio Lester © 2017 Living in a multilingual community can be rewarding and fr...
02 February, 2018 / 2 Comments
Top Ten Truths about Working in Court
By Jennifer de la Cruz © 2015 It’s hard to believe that some 3,000 days have ...
25 January, 2018 / 5 Comments
Getting It Right
– by Janis Palma © 2018 I have always felt a special thrill when I “dis...
19 January, 2018 / 6 Comments
The Couch – A Guilty Conscience
There is a new colleague on The Couch. Read the post and see if you can lend a h...
12 January, 2018 / 3 Comments
United We Stand, Divided We Risk it All
Happy New Year everybody! For the first post of this year, I’d like to propose...
05 January, 2018 / 3 Comments
Good-bye 2017. See You All in 2018
Photo by freestocks.org from Pexels It is the last Friday of the year. Our las...
29 December, 2017 / 2 Comments
A Look at Translating for the Judiciary
Almost three years ago, Jennifer de la Cruz delivered this informative piece. We...
22 December, 2017 / 2 Comments
Protocol When Dealing with Objectionable Behavior by Colleagues in Interpreting
By Armando Ezquerra Hasbun ©2017 It is bound to happen. You spend most of your ...
15 December, 2017 / 8 Comments
The Couch – A few questions about scheduling depositions
There is a new colleague on The Couch. Read the post and see if you can lend a h...
08 December, 2017 / 3 Comments
BE IN THE BEST POSITION FOR YOUR DEPOSITION
– By Armando Ezquerra Hasbun © 2017 Depositions can be grueling. Sometime...
01 December, 2017 / 24 Comments
Dictionary Review: Dicionário de Direito, Economia e Contabilidade
Feature photo by Tamás Mészáros from Pexels By Gio Lester I am the proud ow...
24 November, 2017 / 1 Comment
Thank you! Yes, YOU.
NAJIT has been working hard to reach its membership and you are responding to th...
17 November, 2017 / No comment
The Prima Donna Judiciary Interpreter
We don’t want our new readers to be left out or our fans to forget nuggets...
10 November, 2017 / 18 Comments
Federal Interpreters or Bust!
I still remember it vividly: On October 18th, 2013, I discovered that I had pass...
03 November, 2017 / 18 Comments
How did these words get in my head?
By Janis Palma ©2017 Lately I’ve been asked a lot about test-taking “tips...
27 October, 2017 / 16 Comments
Finding the Parallels – Legal and Medical Interpreter Summit
By Gio Lester ©2017 On October 13, I had the honor of representing NAJIT at the...
20 October, 2017 / 1 Comment
The Couch – Going Beyond Agencies
The Couch is back. This is a space where we can share our doubts, our knowledge ...
13 October, 2017 / 7 Comments
Procedural Memory and the New Kid Jitters
Once again, we revisit our archives for articles that were well received by our ...
06 October, 2017 / 5 Comments
Who is the certification for? (Hint: It’s not who you think!)
By Janis Palma ©2017 Yes, it’s a feather in our caps! Getting that letter say...
29 September, 2017 / 24 Comments
Practical Apps for Interpreting and Translation Professionals
– By Gio Lester I recently attended the webinar Intro to iPad: Basic Appli...
22 September, 2017 / 4 Comments
My Sheltered Life – Living on the other side of the coin
– by Gio Lester ©2017 Yes, I have lived a sheltered life. At least where ...
15 September, 2017 / 6 Comments
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma’s Impact on TNO
The NAJIT Observer is a volunteer initiative. Many of our contributors and hands...
07 September, 2017 / No comment
What Would You Have Done?
From the Editor: TNO is putting its finishing touches on summer vacation. We bri...
25 August, 2017 / No comment
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…
Kathleen Shelly penned this for The NAJIT Observer in 2012. It remains just as r...
18 August, 2017 / 5 Comments