02 Mar One Word Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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Have you ever heard the term, word picture? If you are a trained interpreter, chances are you have. Often, it is explained as a remedy; a way to describe a term that has no equivalent in the target language. However, word pictures are much more...

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16 Feb Maybe It’s Time to Make Friends With Spanglish

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Maybe it is time to make friends with Spanglish. …And Italish, Portinglish, Haitian Creolish and any other language +English! It happened this way: Judge (English): “…mortgage…” Me (Spanish): “…hipoteca…” Litigant (No language): [Blank stare; look of incomprehension and confusion.] The question was repeated. All at...

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05 Jan United We Stand, Divided We Risk it All

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Happy New Year everybody! For the first post of this year, I’d like to propose a new year’s resolution that doesn’t involve us joining a gym. Not that the gym is so terrible, but with all these cold fronts right now I personally would like...

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29 Dec Good-bye 2017. See You All in 2018

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Photo by freestocks.org from Pexels  It is the last Friday of the year. Our last issue of 2017. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Well, this has been a good year for us. We published every week and went through a few changes. We have a...

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03 Nov Federal Interpreters or Bust!

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I still remember it vividly: On October 18th, 2013, I discovered that I had passed the FCICE federal exam. It was one of those remarkable moments that remain transfixed in one’s memory no matter how much time passes. I was elated to receive the news....

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20 Oct Finding the Parallels – Legal and Medical Interpreter Summit

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By Gio Lester ©2017 On October 13, I had the honor of representing NAJIT at the second Finding the Parallels – Legal and Medical Interpreter Summit, organized by De La Mora Interpreter Training, in Orlando, FL. The first event happened in 2013. I was part...

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18 Oct NAJIT News

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13 Oct Speakers

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13 Oct Pre-Conference Workshops

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13 Oct Main Conference Sessions

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