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Conferences, translation, editing and interpreting in the pandemic
2020 conferences You will find me, Helen Eby, at conferences. My speaking schedule is posted on the Calendar tab on my website. I will be speaking at the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters (OSTI) [...]
Spanish writing and translation courses for 2020-2021
Spanish writing mini-session starts on September 17 This is a five-session course. It starts on September 17, and those who plan to take the translation course in January will benefit from taking this course first. [...]
What is required to provide CE for interpreters on the West Coast?
In Washington, Oregon and California, the organizations that maintain CE credits keep a close eye on the quality of the training that interpreters receive. This is what they ask interpreting training providers to submit: [...]
Culturally Linguistically and Appropriate Translations and Interpreting
How do we produce a translated document that is culturally and linguistically useful? Fortunately, the US Government has provided guidance on the subject. Gaucha Translations has been following these best practices. First of all, translators [...]
Black Lives Matter. It is personal.
This is a guest post by my daughter, Cynthia Sleight. I had been thinking of the current protests, and the people my children were friends with as children. She emailed me this text, and I [...]
Language Access: Essential for a United Community
I gave this presentation to the Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce on June 5, 2020, in the context of the civil rights protests. In that presentation, I put language access, which includes translation and interpreting, in [...]