The Man Who Beat Magellan in the Race Around the Globe
Could the first man to circumnavigate the globe actually have been an interpreter? Most people think of Ferdinand Magellan as the Portuguese explorer who…
Read MoreThe Value of Volunteering
In my last column I wrote about the benefits of a diverse membership at ATA to provide a wide variety of experience and skills…
Read MoreATA’s Annual Conference: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
As I write this, we’re one week out from the early registration deadline for ATA57 in San Francisco, and all signs point to an…
Read MoreCredentialed Interpreter Recognition, Your Directory Profile, and More
Credentialed Interpreter Debuted: While ATA does not test interpreters, we have looked for ways to recognize their hard-earned credentials in ATA’s Directory of Translators…
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Rika Mitrik Wins 2015–2016 ATA School Outreach Contest
Rika Mitrik, a Japanese<>English interpreter and ATA-certified English>Japanese translator, won a free registration to ATA’s 57th Annual Conference in San Francisco, California, through ATA’s…
Read MoreAn Interview with Radd Ehrman, Classical Philologist
As translators, we are familiar with the concept of picking a word apart to grasp its meaning. We refer to glossaries and dictionaries to…
Read MoreThree Crazy Ideas about Translation Standards
I’m a big fan of standardization! That’s why I’ve been using international standards in my classroom for almost 10 years. I believe that a…
Read MoreBenefits of a Diverse Crew
From the President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle: @davidcrumsey I managed to squeeze in an afternoon on a friend’s sailboat on a rare, non-working weekend a…
Read MoreMaking the Most of ATA57
From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle: @corrinemckay Whether you’re attending ATA’s Annual Conference for the first or the 40th time, you’ll want to…
Read MoreBoard Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The American Translators Association’s Board of Directors met July 30–31, 2016, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Here are…
Read MoreInside the ABRATES VII International Conference
The Associação Brasileira de Tradutores e Intérpretes (ABRATES) held its 7th Annual Conference in June, and the ATA was there looking to forge ties.…
Read MoreCuriosity as an Approach to Marketing
But what about curiosity as an approach to marketing? We’ve probably all heard marketing people say that we should try to write texts that…
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