Category: Interpretation
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United Nations: The Language Competitive Examination (LCE)
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Reprinted with gracious permission of the author. First printed in the ITI Bulletin. By Maha El-Metwally To become a staff interpreter at the United Nations, one must pass the Language Competitive Examination (LCE). This exam has always had a low pass rate that seldom exceeded 20%. With many staff interpreters…
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New ISO Standards Relating to Conference Interpreting
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Reprinted with gracious permission by AIIC. Benoît KREMER, Klaus ZIEGLER. “New ISO standards relating to conference interpreting”. aiic.net July 19, 2017. Three new standards related to conference interpreting and 2 updated standards on interpretation booths and equipment are now in place. In December 2016, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)…
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Tearing up the Asphalt—Language Professionals Inside and Outside the Beltway Unite!
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Written by Joe Mazza, Administrator ATA Government Division On the morning of Monday, August 17, 1964—just days after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution expanded the Vietnam War, and only days before the Economic Opportunity Act helped launch LBJ’s War on Poverty—the newly completed Capitol Beltway opened to automobile traffic. It…
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Professionalism and Professionalization
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On June 2 of last year, the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA), the Association of Language Interpreters of Greater New York (ALIGNY), and the New York Circle of Translators (NYCT) held a forum under the title, “Translation and Interpreting: from Bilingualism to Professionalism.” The response to the symposium, in which…
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Translation News from Around the World
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This information comes from member associations of FIT and is reprinted from Translatio. Austrian Associations succeed in Raising Awareness on the Difference Between Translators and Interpreters In a joint effort, the German-speaking professional associations loosely organised within the framework of what is called “Bremer Runde”, which meets several times a…
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Interpreting News
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It’s a new year and a good time to look at what is trending in the job market. Whether you are looking for a language service provider or you are looking to become an interpreter, the language service industry is all the buzz. This week, The DC posted an article…
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ORAL FLASHCARDS: Tapping into Auditory & Vocal Skills to Improve Term Acquisition
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By Julie A. Sellers Reprinted from the ATA Chronicle’s June 2012 issue with gracious permission from the author and the editor Language is ever evolving and never static, and interpreters must strive constantly to expand and refine their linguistic knowledge. As such, they must incorporate ways to practice language skills…