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This Week
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Scholarship Offer for ATA Members
The Agnese Haury Institute for Interpretation is offering ATA members five $1,000 scholarships towards the cost of tuition for their 2008 Summer Institute (July 14-August 1). This intensive three-week course offers Spanish-English court interpreters a fast-paced workshop designed to strengthen their interpreting and language skills. To learn more about this scholarship opportunity, contact
Armando Valles, Assistant Director, National Center for Interpretation at the University of Arizona. Phone (520) 621-3615.
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ATA Business Seminar
(May 10 in Los Angeles, CA)
During this in-depth workshop, you'll learn how to sharpen your negotiating skills with role-playing exercises; analyze contracts in current use; build a profitable freelance translation business; and develop a successful relationship
with a translation company. More importantly, this seminar will give you the opportunity to exchange ideas, brainstorm solutions, and make contacts that you’ll keep long after the program ends.
Early-bird discounted registration ends May 2!
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How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator
Now available from ATA! Freelancer Corinne McKay offers lessons learned in this indispensable guide to setting up shop. Identifies good business practices, from finding clients to establishing rates and collecting payment. Great for translators and interpreters just entering the field as well as old hands who want to make their business run better. Click
here
for details and ordering information.
Special online offer! Save $5 when you order both How to Succeed and Getting Started: A Newcomer's Guide to Translation and Interpretation. See the online publications order form for details.
What Else Is Happening?
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Korean Language Division: Hangul Herald Spring 2008
This third edition of the Hangul Herald celebrates the many successes of the Korean Language Division in 2007, not the least of which was the first KLD-sponsored session track at the ATA Annual Conference.
Highlights in this issue include member stories of the Conference, a glossary of Korean familial terms, an insider's view of Monterey Institute's Korean Program, and one author's unique perspective on getting to know colleagues. Oh, and photos, photos, photos! Click to
download your copy now.
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NAJIT 29th Annual Conference (May 16-18 in Pittsburgh, PA)
Techniques, procedures, pitfalls, ethics, resources — the Annual Conference of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators offers attendees a comprehensive program of skills and issues. Early-bird discounted registration ends April 16. Click
here for details.
Upcoming Events
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ATA Calendar of Events
Did You Miss This?
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ATA Newsbriefs March 2008
The March 2008 edition of ATA Newsbriefs
has been emailed to ATA members. This monthly members-only e-newsletter features summaries of translation and interpreting news from around the world. If you missed receiving your copy, click
to get your download!
To be sure you receive ATA Newsbriefs each month, take a minute now to add ATA@infoinc.com to your personal e-mail address book.
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