Creative translation solutions: Making the most of your translation budget

By ATA Compass | December 20, 2015

A US-based precious metals investment company was considering investing in a mine in West Africa. However, they were concerned that the mine’s environmental standards…

My Transition from College to Professional Life: A whole new kind of juggling act

By The Savvy Newcomer | December 15, 2015

by Cynthia Eby Just a little under six months ago, on June 13 of this year, I graduated from college at Seattle Pacific University,…

Finding good translators

By The Savvy Newcomer | December 8, 2015

By Kevin Lossner Partly reblogged from Translation Tribulations with permission from the author Over the past decade I’ve spent many hundreds of hours helping clients…

Translation as a Tool for Understanding

By ATA Compass | December 2, 2015

Legal firm saves on discovery costs by partnering with translation company We’ve all seen the images on the evening news: federal agents hauling computers…

People Do Business with People They Know, Like, and Trust

By The Savvy Newcomer | December 1, 2015

by Jamie Hartz One of my more menial but surprisingly rewarding jobs during college was working at a Chick-fil-A. This came in handy recently…

Healthcare Interpreters: Replacing Myth with Fact

By ATA Compass | November 25, 2015

If you had a bad experience with an incompetent doctor, would you give up on the entire medical profession? Of course not—but that’s the…

How (Not) to Be a Professional Translator and 6 Tips to Help You Become One

By The Savvy Newcomer | November 24, 2015

By Alina Cincan Reblogged from Inbox Translation blog with permission from the author A professional translator’s job is not as easy as it looks. A bilingual dictionary,…

ATA Warns the U.S. Department of Justice Against the Use of Unqualified Interpreters in Immigration Proceedings

By ATA | November 20, 2015

The American Translators Association joins eight associations to warn the U.S. Department of Justice against the use of unqualified interpreters in immigration proceedings. View…

Don’t Just Sit and Pitch: What I’ve Learned as a Translator-Turned-Salesman

By The Savvy Newcomer | November 17, 2015

Over the past few months I’ve learned more about translations, the people who need them, and good customer service than I ever thought I…

By The ATA Chronicle | November 13, 2015

Letters to the Editor Charging by the Hour? Judy Jenner’s suggestion in her September-October column that we charge by the hour appears to me…

Uzbek Practical Dictionary; English-Serbian Medical Dictionary

By The ATA Chronicle | November 13, 2015

Uzbek Practical Dictionary: Uzbek-English/English-Uzbek Reviewed by: Shelley Fairweather-Vega Author: Aleksey Radjabov Publisher: Hippocrene Books Publication Date: 2015 ISBN: 978-0781813259 Price: $29.95 Number of pages:…

Speech Recognition to Go

By The ATA Chronicle | November 12, 2015

Repetitive stress injuries have a long history in medical literature. The first known report of this condition appeared more than 300 years ago, written…