29 Jan The Lightness of Not-Being
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22 Jan Call for Authors
The Blog Subcommittee, part of the NAJIT’s Public Relations Committee, is seeking authors, editors and guests posts. Please review the description of the committee below. The NAJIT Blog subcommittee produces posts with information that is pertinent to the advancement of judiciary interpretation and translation. Our audience transcends...
15 Jan What Do You Call THAT? Increased Demand for Hybrid Skills
Article originally published on June 2015 and republished with permission from InterpretAmerica. Visit their blog to learn more about their work. What do you call an animal with the body of an equine, a horn and a fish tail? It is an interesting hybrid but it is not...
08 Jan Call for Authors
The Blog Subcommittee, part of the NAJIT’s Public Relations Committee, is seeking authors, editors and guests posts. Please review the description of the committee below. The NAJIT Blog subcommittee produces posts with information that is pertinent to the advancement of judiciary interpretation and translation. Our audience transcends...
25 Dec Navidad en Puerto Rico (Christmas in Puerto Rico)
Let me be blunt: I will not call this the “holiday season” because in Puerto Rico this is Navidad. Although the word does come from the Latin nativitas (nativity) and, yes, it all started with the birth of Jesus, the truth is that in Puerto...
18 Dec Zen and the Art of Interpreting (When You Really Wish You Could Say What You Were Thinking!)
This is a reprint of an article originally published in the Summer 2014 issue of Proteus During a presentence interview with a man who had pled guilty to stabbing a stranger to death “by accident,” I must say I could almost see an embodied form to...
11 Dec So, can I interpret at a deposition or not?
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– by Giovanna Lester ©2015 That question has been whirling around the minds of many Florida interpreters since Rule 2.565 went into full effect on October 1, 2015. Among other things, Rule 2.565 defines new professional designations for interpreters (see definitions below) and who is allowed...
04 Dec Guest Post: Proteous Plug
Arianna M. Aguilar is a co-editor of the NAJIT publication Proteus. She has a degree in communications and has been interpreting and translating since 1999. She has been a certified court interpreter in North Carolina since 2005, and master certified Spanish-language court interpreter since 2013....
26 Nov The Militant Interpreter
The phrase itself should set off an alarm. Or perhaps “militant” is too strong a word. How about “the advocate interpreter”? Merriam-Webster defines militant as "having or showing a desire or willingness to use strong, extreme, and sometimes forceful methods to achieve something,” or, in...
20 Nov People Management: The secret job of the interpreter
Throwback Friday! This post originally published in the summer of 2014. These days, when people ask me what it takes to be an interpreter, I tell them one part language skills, one part interpreter technique, and one part people management. When we embark on our interpreting...