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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...
03 Jul No Pressure or Anything
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in Conference Interpreting, Interpreting, Personal Growth, Professional Development, Recent Posts
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7:30am I wake up with a quick, optimistic check to my inbox. No email. Oh well, I sigh. I wasn’t really expecting the results to come in that early. I roll over in bed. Thirty seconds go by. I check my email again. “It’s going...
10 Apr Self-Love in the Time of Corona
Dear Colleagues, Well, goodness me. It would appear that since my last blog post, the world has spun a teensy bit sideways. All of my own carefully made plans have been turned upside down, along with the plans of…every single person I know. And the...
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...