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27 Oct Conquering Consecutive By Athena Matilsky
If you have ever taken a class on interpreting, you know the drill: We listen not for words, but ideas. We don’t write everything; we take notes on key words. And yet, even though we may have heard this from multiple teachers, it seems that...
06 Mar Language Skills-Building for Interpreters
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in Interpreting, Professional Development, Recent Posts, The Profession, TRAINING
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Interpreters face somewhat of a conundrum upon entering the profession. That is, we are expected to have “native-level” discourse and comprehension skills in all of our languages. Advertisements boast “perfect fluency,” and respectable interpreting courses necessarily steer their content away from language acquisition. Yet, of...
07 Feb Interpreting for Crimes Against Humanity: Giving Victims A Voice
On March 14, 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo became the first person to be found guilty through a trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC). Among the war crimes this Congolese warlord oversaw were enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15 years and using...
24 Jan Muddying the Waters of Interpreting
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in Court Interpreting, Interpreters, Interpreting, Medical Interpreting, Past Posts, Professional Practices, Recent Posts
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This post was first published in November 2018. Exactly a week ago today, you would have found me in New Orleans with a colleague at an oyster bar on the banks of the Mississippi, discussing the Dunning-Kruger effect. For those of you who are unfamiliar...
27 Dec The Year in Review – The Most Popular Posts of 2019
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in Business Practices, Interpreting, Medical Interpreting, Recent Posts, Translation
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This being the last Friday of the year, we will share below the most popular posts of 2019, by month. The selection is based on the number of comments the post received and that will vary greatly with the seasons. Summer is an especially difficult...
