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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 / 23 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 / 12 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 / 22 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

Happy Holidays 2020

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25 December, 2020 / No comment

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

NAJIT Anti-Discrimination Statement

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13 June, 2020 / No comment

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

Value Interpreting in the New Normal

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29 May, 2020 / 7 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

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

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

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

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

Because Our Job is too Easy

I find that t...

07 June, 2019 / 9 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 / 18 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

02 February, 2018 / 2 Comments

Top Ten Truths about Working in Court

25 January, 2018 / 5 Comments

Getting It Right

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

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

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?

27 October, 2017 / 16 Comments

Finding the Parallels – Legal and Medical Interpreter Summit

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!)

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

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

Look Y’all, No Wires!!!
or The Beauty of Wireless Interpreting Equipment

We have a guest blogger contributing to The NAJIT Observer this week. Virginia V...

11 August, 2017 / 7 Comments

An Unquenchable Thirst for Learning

04 August, 2017 / 7 Comments

The Art of Faking It ‘Til You Make It

– By Athena Matilsky There are few things more off-putting than to hear an...

28 July, 2017 / 9 Comments

Sure love my morning cup…

This article was written on June 27, 2014. Enjoy! I generally start my day with ...

21 July, 2017 / 5 Comments

The Pot of Gold

14 July, 2017 / 2 Comments

The Couch – Where we analyze our professional dilemmas

The Couch is back. This is a space where we can share our doubts, our knowledg...

07 July, 2017 / 6 Comments

7 Tips for Working with Court Interpreters

We have another Guest Post. This time, our guest is Ryan Bridges a contributing ...

30 June, 2017 / 7 Comments

The Passion Propelling us Forward

23 June, 2017 / No comment

False Friends

This article by Janis Palma was first published two years ago, almost to the dat...

16 June, 2017 / 1 Comment

Courthouse by Any Other Name

Okay, perhaps it’s a bit far-fetched to compare a courthouse to Shakespeare’...

09 June, 2017 / 3 Comments

The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting: A Multifaceted Resource

This post was originally published on The Savvy Newcomer on August 2, 2016. Repu...

02 June, 2017 / 1 Comment

NAJIT 2017 Was Memorable!

And here are some moments for you to relive. Header photo courtesy of NAJIT memb...

26 May, 2017 / 1 Comment

Got Social Media?

This article was originally posted on November 15, 2012. Some social media tools...

19 May, 2017 / 1 Comment

What is happening to my brain?

by Janis Palma, USCCI, NCJIT-S I can remember how to say “Compass Rose” and...

12 May, 2017 / 7 Comments

Conference & Advocacy Go Hand in Hand

This is our first double feature in preparation for two important upcoming event...

05 May, 2017 / 1 Comment

The Trouble With Memory…

or How to Forget About Interpreting and Just Listen – By Athena Matilsky�...

28 April, 2017 / 5 Comments

The Richness of Rituals

This article by Janis Palma was originally published on Aug 22, 2011. Janis give...

14 April, 2017 / 2 Comments

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