Volunteering: Making Your Investment of Time Worthwhile
It鈥檚 a 鈥淲hat鈥檚 in it for me?鈥 world, so why do people volunteer? And more importantly, where do they find the time? Read on to learn how to select and manage volunteer activities. You鈥檒l also find out how choosing the right volunteer opportunity can be a good thing for your career.
Translating Diagnostic Imaging
Translating diagnostic imaging reports can be a challenging but rewarding aspect of medical translation for which the translator must master the technical basics of the diagnostic imaging modality, the report structure, and the specialized source and target vocabulary.
Translation and Interpreting in Mexico: Uncharted Territory, Rich Waters
The Italia Morayta Foundation, InterpretAmerica, and the Association of Public Service and Community Interpreters and Translators recently published the results of a groundbreaking initiative, the 2017 Survey on Translation and Interpretation in Mexico鈥攆eaturing 100 pages of detailed information compiled from more than 1,000 translators and interpreters across Mexico.
Translation Scams Reloaded
Taking steps to safeguard your identity and minimize the risk from scammers is not as difficult as it sounds, but it takes diligence.
From the President: Continuity and Renewal within ATA
From the President Corinne McKay president@atanet.org Twitter: @corinnemckay ATA has many strengths鈥攊ncluding every one of our 10,500 members鈥攁nd one of our greatest is certainly…
Attending ATA59: An Investment in Your Professional Future
From the President-Elect Ted R. Wozniak ted@tedwozniak.net Planning for ATA鈥檚 59th Annual Conference鈥擮ctober 24鈥27, 2018, in New Orleans鈥攊s well underway, so now is the…
Board Meeting Highlights
The 情侣自拍鈥檚 Board of Directors met April 14鈥15, 2018, in Alexandria, Virginia. The Board met in conjunction with the Certification Committee and…
Does In-Ear Speech-to-Speech Translation Technology Really Work?
A Review of the Lingmo Translate One2One I鈥檝e been testing and writing about interpreting technology since 2015. Until now, all the technologies I鈥檝e reviewed…
Four Truths about Court Interpreting
Both my interpreting students and beginning court interpreter colleagues pursing certification ask me regularly what it鈥檚 really like to be a working court interpreter.…
The Care and Feeding of Graders
You can find a lot of information about ATA鈥檚 Certification Program on the website and in past articles of The ATA Chronicle, but not…
Letter to the Editor
Risto Siikarla鈥檚 Letter to the Editor | March鈥揂pril While it鈥檚 true that 鈥渞aising rates will negatively affect the volume of translation requests,鈥 any translator…
A Conversation with Man Booker International Prize Winner Jessica Cohen
Jessica Cohen, a past ATA Student Translation Award Recipient, has come a long way since her student days at Indiana University. In 2017, she was awarded the Man Booker International Prize, along with David Grossman, for the translation of Grossman鈥檚 A Horse Walks into a Bar.