Machine Translation vs. Human Translation: Will Artificial Intelligence Replace the World’s Second Oldest Profession?
Translators pride themselves on being excellent communicators, and so they should. After all, it’s their job! But sometimes, even the best communicators can talk…
Teacher’s Top Ten: Business Practices
One of the main reasons we encourage students to join ATA is to take advantage of the wellspring of knowledge surrounding best practices—the kind…
What Professors Don’t Teach You about Translating Professionally
During my undergraduate degree in translation, I felt like I was very prepared for a career in translation. I excelled in my language classes…
Universidad de Alcalá: A Day in the Life
I went into my master’s program at Spain’s Universidad de Alcalá convinced I wanted to be an interpreter. A year later I was a…
Universitat Pompeu Fabra: A Day in the Life
By Carmen Salomón Hernández I finished my high school degree, including the International Baccalaureate Diploma in 2011 and decided to study Translation and Interpreting…
MIIS: A Day in the Life
By Erin Teske My first glimpse of what it would be like to be a student at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey,…
University of Lund: A Day in the Life
By Marie Eriksson I came to Lund University for the first time as winter was just giving way into spring. My father drove me from…
University of Maryland, College Park: A Day in the Life
By Sarah Caudill Though I live in Silver Spring, Maryland, just a short bus ride from the UMD College Park campus, I was teaching English…
A Day in the Life: Bellevue College
This week we continue with our “A Day in the Life” series featuring an article written in collaboration by two current students from the…
University of Massachusetts Amherst: A Day in the Life
By Jocelyn Langer The simple New England elegance of Amherst and the plain grey concrete walls of Herter Hall do not at first glance…
Century College Translating and Interpreting Certificate/AA: A Day in the Life
By Kristen Mages If you fall into the vast majority of the population, you may never have heard of Century College in White Bear…
An Invitation: A Day in the Life
As you may have noticed, the ATA Savvy Newcomer blog will be running a series in the coming months on the many options for…