07 Mar The Lovely Land of Language Interference

Posted at 10:44h in Athena Matilsky, Idioms, Interpreting, Language, Recent Posts, Translation by Observer Editor 0 Comments

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The following article by Athena was published a while back. The NAJIT Observer team would like to offer it for your reading pleasure once more. Enjoy! Have you ever taken a dash of one language with a sprinkle of another, mixed them together and simmered to...

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03 Jan New Year’s Resolutions: The Why, the Way and the Joy

Posted at 08:10h in Athena Matilsky, New Ideas, Personal Growth, Professional Development, The Profession, TRAINING by Observer Editor 7 Comments

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Dear Friends and Colleagues, By the time you read these words, it’ll be January. It’s actually still December for me while I write this, but not for much longer. There is less than a week to go, in fact. So, adios, 2022! Hello, 2023! Happy...

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15 Nov Big Brain Club

Posted at 11:34h in Athena Matilsky, Business Practices, Ethics, Interpreters, Language, Leadership, Personal Growth, Professional Development, Recent Posts, Technology, TRAINING by Observer Editor 12 Comments

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During the first pandemic winter, I took on one of the hardest teaching assignments I’ve ever experienced: I tutored the son of a dear friend of mine with his fifth-grade homework. He was struggling a lot, and there were concerns that he might not be...

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12 Sep Dear Fellow NAJIT-ers

Posted at 11:19h in Athena Matilsky, Interpreters, Odds & Ends, Personal Growth, Self care by Observer Editor 19 Comments

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Dear Fellow NAJIT-ers, Happy September! How the heck is it September again?! Time. It never stops. Jules, our fearless Editor-in-Chief, just sent me the nicest e-mail telling me he’d like to hear from me again. Eeek. I have been hiding all summer, you see. Thank...

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16 May A Threat to Our Profession

Posted at 11:21h in Advocacy, Athena Matilsky, Attorney Education, Certification, Court Interpreting, Ethics, Immigration, Language, Professional Hazard, Professional Practices, Recent Posts, The Profession by Observer Editor 20 Comments

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A few decades ago, “language access” was not really a phrase. Litigants who did not speak English were frequently left in the dark as to their own judicial proceedings, and this carried severe consequences. The evolution of court interpreting as a profession has relied on...

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21 Mar On the Topic of Monotasking

Posted at 01:00h in Athena Matilsky, Interpreters, Odds & Ends, Personal Growth, Professional Development, Recent Posts, Tools of the trade by Observer Editor 8 Comments

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This post is on the topic of monotasking. That’s right, you read it correctly. Monotasking. What’s that, you ask? Well, it’s the opposite of multitasking. In other words, instead of doing a ton of things at once, you do one. Thing. At. A. Time. I...

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15 Mar Continuing Education

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28 Feb Main Conference Sessions

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28 Feb Presenter Biographies

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25 Feb Pre-Conference Workshops

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