by ATIF WebMaster | Aug 13, 2015 | ATIF Event, Interpreting, Professional Development, Professional Interest, Translation, Uncategorized
Getting Into the Market is a webinar designed and developed by Gio Lester, CT and adapted for ATIF as a four-part series. The focus of the project is to assist newcomers in their journey into the market. In this first installment, Gio discusses the basics of your...
by ATIF WebMaster | Aug 8, 2015 | Interpreting, Odds and Ends, Professional Interest, Translation
If we want to be competent users of translation, we would do well to try to understand what it is that translators do, how they do it, for whom, in what circumstances, and for what reward.David Bellos Source: The Wall Street Journal – originally published in...
by ATIF WebMaster | Aug 8, 2015 | Interpreting, Odds and Ends, Professional Interest, Translation
The interpreter is both listener and speaker, working in real-time, without a safety net, and with little room to correct errors. Source: What makes language interpreting different from translation? | Catálogo Premium de Intérpretes
by ATIF WebMaster | Jul 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
As most translators’ prefaces attest, every translation, unless it’s a crib, negotiates in its own way the problem of how to achieve two contradictory desiderata: to be faithful to the original, and to create a work of art in the new language. Source:...
by ATIF WebMaster | Jul 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Explore the linguistic tricks used to make Lewis Carroll’s puns, parodies and nonsense accessible in hundreds of tongues Source: The Mad Challenge of Translating “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
by ATIF WebMaster | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Florida State Statutes 90.606 and 90.6063 address interpreters and translators, but don’t specifically provide instructions for people who are not deaf. Florida Supreme Court public information officer Craig Waters said in a statement on July 15 that “The...
by ATIF WebMaster | Jul 18, 2015 | ATA2015, ATIF Event, Third Thursday
Who’s Florencio, you ask? Well, this is your chance to meet him in the…plush. Florencio is this year’s conference mascot. He is supposed to be picked up by our President, Caitilin, when she lands in Miami. In the meantime, he will be popping up around town,...
by ATIF WebMaster | Jul 18, 2015 | ATA2015, ATIF Event, ATIF news, Industry Events, Industry News, Interpreting, Odds and Ends, Partners/Sponsors, Professional Development, Professional Interest, Translation
We have the perfect Fall weather. And the ATA Annual Conference is a great opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world. This year ATIF is the Host Chapter and we have planned a few ways for you to get involved. Come to FIRST TUESDAY on November 3. It will be...
by ATIF WebMaster | Jul 10, 2015 | ATA2015, Industry Events, Interpreting, Professional Development, Professional Interest, Translation
ATIF is proud to be the host of the American Translators Association 56th Annual Conference. The event will take place the first week of November, and already there are exciting exchanges taking place on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks and media. To find...
