Improving the product al español: The Art of Editing English>Spanish Translations Florida Courts CIEs: Application has been approved by the Court Interpreter Certification and Regulation Program for Continuing Interpreter Education credit. CEAA award no 11-023 for 3.6 CIE credits ATA CEUs: 3                     NAJIT CEs: 3 Date: Saturday, July 23 Language:  Spanish Times: […]

Improving the product al español: The Art of Editing English>Spanish Translations Language:  Spanish Date:  Saturday, July 23 Times: – Check-in: 9:30 – Workshop: 10-1 p.m. Location:  Miami-Dade College InterAmerican Campus ATA CEUs: 3 Florida Courts CIEs: Application has been approved by the Court Interpreter Certification and Regulation Program for Continuing Interpreter Education credit. CEAA award […]

Linguistic forensics | Psychology Today. Just as the use of “hit” versus “smash” influences witnesses’ accounts of how fast a car is going, the choice of which manner verb will stand in for the path verb “to enter” — slip in? walk in? come in? — is going to affect the way juries weigh and […]

The day the Supreme Court ruled on the bilingual mind | Psychology Today. By asking bilingual jurors to disregard everything that was said in Spanish, the prosecutor and then all the appellate courts up to the Supreme Court were asking bilingual jurors to do something they simply could not do.

A high profile interpreter, Ms. Galsworthy had to deal with unruly dogs, jokes, unscheduled appointments,  speaker failure and excessive kindness among other things. She met all these situations with the grace and professionalism expected of a political interpreter. To listen to her interview, click here .

The VI Immigration Terminology Conference will be held on January 21, 2012. The 2012 event will take place at Miami-Dade College’s InterAmerican Campus (627 SW 27th Avenue, Room 3103, Miami-Fl 33135). The FREE, three-hour long event will start at 10 a.m. For more information and to register, please click here. Presenters: Prof. Hector Suco and […]

The North Carolina Court Interpreter Orientation Training and Administration of the Written Screening Tests is scheduled for August 22 – 24, 2011.  With the addition of new certification examinations available to N.C. and the implementation of OPI tests, that state is focusing on LOTS (Languages Other Than Spanish) interpreter certification and qualification. Information on the […]

‘Harry Potter’: New Parseltongue translator lets muggles hiss like Slytherin | Hero Complex – movies, comics, fanboy fare – latimes.com. Muggles with a penchant for the Dark Arts can now hiss their way into the Chamber of Secrets or speak to Voldemort‘s serpentine pet Nagini.   ==>>AN note: You can record and translate a message […]

‘All Your Base are Belong to us’. Not if we can help it | GameKudos.com.   Video game localization can be a very interesting prospect for translators, as the text needs to remain accurate and functional, but it is also fundamental that it continues to entertain. Creative translators are assigned projects as opposed to a […]