Who Wants to Fail ATA鈥檚 Certification Exam?

By The ATA Chronicle | November 1, 2017

Self-help books and websites have recently been featuring 鈥渘ot-to-do鈥 lists as a way of improving work habits, enhancing productivity, and generally boosting quality of…

DeepL Questions

By The ATA Chronicle | October 31, 2017

When DeepL, the neural machine translation engine (www.deepl.com/translator), was released at the end of August, it took me a few weeks to talk to…

Demand for Translation and Interpreting Stronger than Ever

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

From the听President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle:听@davidcrumsey One of the great things about serving as ATA President is the ability to meet, listen to,…

Onward to DC and ATA58!

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle:听@corinnemckay ATA鈥檚 Annual Conference goes by many nicknames: 鈥淭he language industry family reunion,鈥 and 鈥淭he experience you…

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

Letters to the Editor Melissa Gonz谩lez鈥檚 Letter in Response to Barry Slaughter Olsen鈥檚 Article on Remote Interpreting I read Melissa Gonz谩lez鈥檚 comments in the…

Board Meeting Highlights

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The 情侣自拍鈥檚 Board of Directors met July 29鈥30, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. Here are…

Bridging the Language Gap at TEDxNIU

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

I was invited to speak at the TEDxNIU Annual Conference at Northern Illinois University on April 22, 2017. There were more than 200 attendees…

Building Successful Relationships with Clients and Vendors

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

In the 22 years I have been in business, I鈥檓 most proud of the fact that I have some clients whom I have serviced…

Interview with Maurine McLean, Former Sign Language Interpreter

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

I have long considered sign language interpreting to be the most mysterious version of the kind of work we do in our particular corner…

Language Sketching

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

Dragos Ciobanu, from the translation department of the University of Leeds, wrote to me a few weeks ago: The reason I鈥檓 writing is to…

Peer Reviewed: Collaborative Preparation for the Certification Exam

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

Currently, the main option available to help candidates prepare for ATA鈥檚 certification exam is the practice test. An obvious advantage of taking the practice…

ATA 2017 Elections: Candidate Statements

By The ATA Chronicle | September 11, 2017

ATA will hold its regularly scheduled elections at the upcoming ATA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, to elect a president-elect, secretary, and treasurer for…