Improving your translation skills to get to the ATA exam level I recently gave a presentation on this topic at the New England Translators Association conference. It was an honor to spend time speaking to amazing colleagues. The discussions around the tables were great! NETA requested this topic. This is my personal opinion, based [...]
September 12, 2024 I haven’t written an update in a long time, maybe in about a year. The last 12 months have been difficult. My husband’s health declined exponentially in the last quarter of 2023, and he passed away in late January of 2024. I have dealt with a lot of brain fog, but I [...]
What makes the courses Helen teaches unique? Helen has been teaching skills-based classes on translation for several years. Participants have consistently grown in their skills and been able to achieve professional milestones as a result. How do these courses work? The group meets on Zoom at a prescheduled time, in a live classroom setting. Participants [...]
What interpreters do and how they do it_2023-11-27 In this PDF, we explain what interpreters do. This flow chart should help decision makers prepare for interpreting events.
Hybrid Multilingual Conference PDF Multilingual conferences are conducted in the simultaneous interpreting mode. Simultaneous interpretation requires two interpreters per language. Hybrid conferences are those where some attendees and/or presenters are onsite while other attendees and/or presenters are online. At the time of scheduling the virtual conference, the host must enable Language Interpretation on Zoom. This [...]
When translating legal texts from Spanish to English or from English to Spanish, I first verify that I understand the text. Legal terminology often uses terms but gives them meanings that are very different from what they mean in everyday language. Therefore, any time a term confuses me I look it up in a monolingual [...]
Both interpreters and users of interpreter services can take proactive steps to ensure that a session stays on track. Professional interpreters follow certain protocols to ensure this, and users of interpreting services can elicit these protocols when they are not followed. Interpreters provide their services in a variety of fields, so the examples provided come [...]
New courses for 2023-2024! For the last year or two, we took a sabbatical from teaching here at Gaucha Translations. This year, we are back with a new set of courses. Both will focus on translation. General information Gaucha Translations courses are taught over zoom, by meeting at a specific time each week. There is [...]
I have adjusted my rates for inflation every year for many years. The 2023 fee schedule was just published. More and more jobs are being treated as freelance work over the last few years. Editing, translation and interpreting are just a few of them. Our work pays bills. As the New York Times put it [...]
This is a blank petition for you to sign. On May 8, the ATA Nominations and Leadership Development Committee (NLDC) sent an email to members announcing this year’s slate of candidates. The committee informed us that despite their efforts, they had not been able to find more than one candidate for the Secretary position. And in [...]
