5 lessons from SLAM! on promoting professionalism in the translation industry
How do you differentiate yourself and earn a living as a freelance translator or interpreter? Arm yourself with huge doses of entrepreneurship, pride and…
Why I Train Interpreters
If we want qualified interpreters (which I argue we do), we need to continue to train interpreters. I live in a tiny conference interpreting…
Online Training Resources for Translators
As chair of ATA’s Translation and Interpreting Resources Committee, my goal is to gather information on resources of all kinds, including those related to…
The Certification Toolbox: Get Ready!
Late fall and early winter are traditionally a slow time for ATA’s Certification Program, since no exam sittings are scheduled between ATA’s Annual Conference…
Congratulations!
The following members have successfully passed ATA’s certification exam: English into Chinese Sijin Xian North Bethesda, MD English into Japanese Hiromi Fujii Novi, MI…
The 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…
ATA’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…
Always leave the door open for future opportunities
Learning to say no is widely covered in our profession. It is a skill many of us have to work on. It took me…
Credentialed 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…
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…
An 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…