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…
Goldmines for Professional Growth at FIL in Guadalajara
Congreso San Jerónimo, Feria Internacional del Libro Dates: November 26 to 29, 2016 Place: Guadalajara, Mexico The Congreso San Jerónimo is a translation and…
The Importance of Hiring Qualified Technical Translators
Occasionally, an enterprise client comes to our firm for post-translation help. The scenario usually looks like this: they needed a technical text translated, they…
The Translator Requests a Clarification: Tracking the conversation
By Helen Eby (@EbyGaucha) Reblogged from Gaucha Translations blog with permission from the author Translators and interpreters face a common problem: lack of clarity…
ATA Statement Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration Nightly Business Report
As the voice of over 10,000 interpreters and translators in the United States and abroad, the American Translators Association is very concerned about President…
How language professionals can reclaim their digital lives after Snowden
Our private and professional lives happen increasingly online. However, we often compromise our privacy and put the integrity of data and information at risk.…
Congratulations!
The following people have successfully passed ATA’s certification exam: English into Chinese Ping Chen Allen, TX Yajing Dong La Habra, CA Mintao Huang Rosemead,…
Don’t Take My Word For It: Some—Admittedly— Rather Random Tips and Tricks in MS Word
Late last year, I was asked to chair ATA’s Translation and Interpreting Resources Committee, whose perhaps most important task is to oversee the publication…
New ATA Professional Liability Insurance Broker; Upcoming ATA Webinars for 2017
New ATA Professional Liability Insurance Broker Alliant is the new broker for ATA-sponsored professional liability insurance. The underwriter is still Lloyds of London. All…
Interview with Freek Lankhof, the Bookseller
These days, if we need an Italian dictionary of seismography, we go online, just as we do for any kind of glossary or reference…
Sailing into 2017
From the President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle: @davidcrumsey As most of you have noticed by now, I’ve been using the analogy of a ship to…