13 Jun False Friends

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Beware of false friends! I don’t mean the people, I mean the words.  One of the first impulses a young interpreter must overcome is the use of words that may, at first glance, seem to be equivalent terms and concepts in two languages… but are...

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25 Apr In Memoriam of our Beloved Friend and Colleague

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  IN MEMORIAM   María Cristina de la Vega Writer, Translator, Interpreter, Entrepreneur June 28, 1952 Havana, Cuba April 18, 2014 Miami, Florida Our beloved friend and colleague, María Cristina, left us on Good Friday, 2014. It was on June 13, 2013, that she revealed...

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17 Apr Interpreting Then, Now and Beyond

Posted at 23:59h in Community Interpreting, Conference Interpreting, Court Interpreting, Interpreting, Language Associations, Medical Interpreting, New Ideas, Odds & Ends by GLester 0 Comments

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– by Gio Lester © 2014 Title VI was devised and implemented in the second third of the 20th century. Since then, our world has changed and so has our society. The demands and profiles of the services and tasks targeted by Title VI have also changed....

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27 Feb The Tale of an Arbitration

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-by Gio Lester, 2014 At the last arbitration for which I interpreted, the panel consisted of three judges: a monolingual American, a bilingual native Spanish speaker and a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker who also spoke Spanish and English. The lawyers for the parties were mostly...

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14 Feb Free Spanish Court Interpretation Service Expanding

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This week’s post comes to us from our colleagues in Texas.   Big thank you to Marco Hanson for sharing and making this post possible.  Keep up the great work folks, and Happy Valentine’s Day. – Kevin   Office of Court Administration  DAVID SLAYTON Administrative...

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12 Dec And Away We Grow…

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As 2013 comes to a close, we all who have participated actively in keeping the blog current, appealing and meaningful are asked to share our feelings and lessons learned. We believe that sharing is closely related to learning and a very important part of the...

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15 Nov Find Your Voice – Quick Tips on Public Speaking

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Giovanna Lester 2013 == Originally written for publication in the blog Adventures in Freelance Translation by Catherine Christaki and published on April 4, 2013. Communication takes place all the time, even when we are not aware of it. But there comes a time when we have...

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01 Feb Changing it Up: New Year, New Perspective

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One year ago this month, when the NAJIT Blog was just getting started, I ended my post with these words: Whether you call it love, passion or simply enjoying your career, I think we can all agree that having a true calling and affinity for...

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07 Dec Attitude of Gratitude

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My mother died a few weeks before Thanksgiving. She was a remarkable woman who gave each of her children a great love of learning and an appreciation for art, music, language and books, books, books! There was so much I loved and admired about her,...

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09 Nov Social Networking for a Cause

Posted at 05:51h in Interpreting, New Ideas, Past Posts by JdlCruz 5 Comments

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I’ve only been active on Facebook for a couple of years, if you could call having a few family members as friends “active”. In a sense, I’d been wading gradually into the social networking scene up until fairly recently. I’d always signed up for listservs...

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