Experiences and Strategies for Attending Online Client-Side Conferences By Alison Trujillo Embracing the unique experience of a virtual conference helped me to enjoy my time during the event and when following up later. Over the past year, we’ve juggled what…
Consider the following scenario: You receive an email message from the HR department of a large international corporation inviting you to a job interview. The company is looking for a language professional with precisely your skill set. The offer sounds…
by Daniela Schmidt “All meanings we know depend on the key of interpretation” Mary Ann Evans, a.k.a. George Eliot There is more to the skill of interpretation and translation than being bilingual. As a profession, interpretation and translation rely more…
By Olivia Singier Texier For our first NCTA General Meeting of 2021, we were pleased to welcome Michael Schubert for a presentation focused on business practices, Building Successful Client Relationships, which is an important and crucial topic for our profession….
by Anne-Charlotte Giovangrandi What better time than right before the holidays to hear about food and cooking terms? For NCTA’s last webinar of 2020, NCTA member Olivia Singier Texier presented “What’s Cooking – An Introduction to Culinary Translation.” On December…
by Fernanda Brandão-Galea In the final NCTA General Meeting of 2020, it was with great excitement that we welcomed Alaina Brandt as our featured speaker for a talk about terminology management. Since I am about to finish my tenure as…
by Thilo Ullmann-Zahn Ms. Pamela Gilbert-Snyder, a certified French-English interpreter, was the presenter for the day at NCTA’s second pandemic-necessitated Virtual General Meeting in August 2020. She shared with us her experiences as an interpreter for a volunteer medical team…