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The Banks vs. Translators: What do freelancers think about how they get paid? | The translation business.

After you’ve done the hard work – it’s great to get paid. But getting paid is not always as straightforward as we might prefer it to be.

Does grammar matter anymore? (LOL) – CBS News.

This isn’t about etiquette, being eloquent, or anything like that. This is about communicating with clarity. It’s also about your career.

2013 International Medical Interpreters Conference

Specialized Interpreting
Getting Beyond the Basics: Exploring Quality Interpreting for Multiple Specialties

Come Join Us to Celebrate IMIA’s First Conference outside Boston!

January 18 – 20, 2013
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139

The Translation Industry Interprets ‘Recession-Proof’ – Businessweek.

While automated translation can quickly scan and summarize large bodies of text, reduce cost, and improve consistency, humans will be needed to use it intelligently and proofread the results, at least for the foreseeable future.

Translators, Interpreters Underappreciated.

The relatively low status of language specialists in Korea has had significant ? and readily observed ? consequences in everyday life.

7 Steps to Incredible Personal Productivity | Inc.com.

Summer is here and we all need a boost to our productive level. Hope this article from last December will motivate you to stick to the task.

Highly skilled interpreters, pay, and justice.

A Blog by Al Navas.

“As I develop the series, I will use samples of States within the U.S., in hopes of documenting in a small way the developing trends that seem to either germinate sporadically, or that may already be flourishing in various parts of our country.”

Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters Receives Accreditation of Its CHI™ Certification from the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) | Business Wire.

Founded in July 2009, CCHI is a professional certification organization acting in the public interest by establishing and enforcing education, examination, experience and ethics requirements for certification. Currently, 314 healthcare interpreters are certified to use the CHI™-Spanish designation.

How to solve impossible problems: Daniel Russell’s awesome Google search techniques.

You think you know how to use Google? Read and find out how much you DON’T know!

5 good iPad apps worth checking out | ZDNet.

Kendrick: A couple of these apps are brand new to the iPad, and some of them are so good they quickly replaced favorite apps I have been using for a while.