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 fromÌýTranslation 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

ByÌýAlina Cincan Reblogged fromÌýInbox TranslationÌýblog 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 ÇéÂÂ×ÔÅÄ 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…

Transcending the Legacy of Jerome

By The ATA Chronicle | November 12, 2015

Jerome, the illustrious theologian and linguist we celebrate as the patron saint of translators, may have been canonized after his death, but while he…