by Giovanna Lester | Apr 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Nevada Court Interpreters Protest Wage Cuts | PRI’s The World. In the US, many courts throughout the nation have also been cutting wages for interpreters.
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain – NYTimes.com. Using sophisticated technologies to examine the workings of individual neurons — and the makeup of brain matter itself — scientists in just the past few months have discovered that exercise appears...
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Oil and Gas Translation: Technical tips to increase your success rate | Translation Source. If you work in the field or are looking into expanding into oil & gas, this is a good piece.
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
AP’s approval of ‘hopefully’ symbolizes larger debate over language – The Washington Post. Linguistic battlefields are scattered with the wreckage left behind by Nauseated vs. Nauseous, by Healthy vs. Healthful, by the legions of people who perpetuated the union...
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
NAJIT Blog. What Not to Wear–and Why -by Kathleen When the subject of dressing for court comes up, the advice I often hear is “dress like an attorney.” Well, yes and no. I know a number of attorneys whose style of dress I wouldn’t want to emulate in a thousand...
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
tcworld.info – translation and localization. Not only can visuals break the language barrier, they also have the effect of making readers understand information in a more intuitive way and help them memorize this information.
by Giovanna Lester | Apr 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
U.S. Demand for Portuguese Increasing. Universities admit that they are having difficulty keeping up with the increased interest in Portuguese.
by Giovanna Lester | Mar 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Brain’s involvement in processing depends on language’s graphic symbols. In order to examine the interaction between the two hemispheres while reading Hebrew, English and Arabic, two experiments were conducted with subjects divided into three groups: those...
by Giovanna Lester | Mar 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
A Surge in Learning the Language of the Internet. “People have a genuine desire to understand the world we now live in,” said Zach Sims, one of the founders of Codecademy. “They don’t just want to use the Web; they want to understand how it...
