Why Isn鈥檛 ATA Certification Offered in My Language?
ATA currently offers certification in 30 language pairs, but there鈥檚 always room for more as long as certain criteria are met. As a member-driven…
Read MoreOutside the French Quarter: The 鈥淥ther鈥 New Orleans
From the President-Elect Ted R. Wozniak ted@tedwozniak.net ATA鈥檚 59th Annual Conference is set for October 24鈥27, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Planning for ATA59…
Read MoreBoard Meeting Highlights
The 情侣自拍鈥檚 Board of Directors met January 20鈥21, 2018, in Miami, Florida. The meeting followed the Board鈥檚 Annual Strategy Day. The Annual…
Read MoreFrom the President: Membership Has Its Benefits: Are You Making the Most of Them?
From the President Corinne McKay president@atanet.org Twitter: @corinnemckay If you鈥檙e receiving this issue of The ATA Chronicle, it means that you鈥檝e renewed your ATA…
Read MoreThrough the Looking Glass
They are easy to spot. Capricious, overdemanding interpreters for whom nothing is ever right: the pay is meager, the hours are long, the tasks…
Read MoreLanguage Technology Wiki: A Project 鈥淒evoted to Helping Evolve the Next Generation of Language Technology with Your Help鈥
At the end of last year I made a list of personal and professional achievements from 2017, which made me feel very positive about…
Read MoreTransitioning from Student to Freelance Translator
Reblogged from the SDL Trados blog, incl. the image, with permission from the author In November this year at ATA鈥檚 57th Annual Conference in…
Read MoreATA Members in The Boston Globe and The Daily Beast
The Boston Globe and The Daily Beast interviewed several members of the 情侣自拍 for articles concerning the possible summit meeting between U.S.…
Read MoreYear-one Chronicle: My First Twelve Months as a Professional Translator
A few days before Christmas I got a thick, imposing envelope in the mail from the Washington State Department of Revenue. 鈥淎CTION REQUIRED: Business…
Read MoreATA’s First Virtual Conference Has Arrived
Did you miss out on ATA鈥檚 58th Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.? Or maybe you attended but weren鈥檛 able to make it to as…
Read MoreLinguist in the Spotlight: An Interview with Frieda Ruppaner-Lind
English-to-German and German-to-English translator Frieda Ruppaner-Lind is among those intrepid linguists who count their experience not in years, but decades: in her case, three…
Read MoreThe Greatest Challenge Facing Translators
Reblogged from Academic Language Experts blog, with permission from the author A friend, wishing to polish his translation skills, recently asked me the following…
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