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Two disciplines, common goals: understanding cultural codes, discovering order in “the foreign,” rendering through language an appreciation of “the unknown other.” BY MEHDI ASADZADEH AND ALI ABBASI To an ordinary reader, translation might mean finding “equivalents” for the words of the source…
Voice Acting hopefuls take the plunge during an organized day trip to Medialocate. Do they have what it takes? BY ANA ISABEL BELTRAN AND NOEMI GONZALEZ Voiceover artists, those disembodied voices we hear in audio books, commercials and public announcements can conjure laughter, relief,…
Considered a “dead language” by some, Latin continues to flourish in the world of Science and Medicine. Bootcamp attendees get the breakdown. BY MIKE KARPA Marlene V. Obermeyer guided interpreters and translators through the lingo of medicine and the human body in…
An abundance of free translation services are available online; but what do you get for free? Will a simple sentence auto-translate cleanly across multiple languages? Or will the end result bear little resemblance to the original language? BY SARA GREENWALD Most…
In the absence of a predetermined agenda, participants create their own event, and a learning experience that continues beyond the conference. BY RAFFAELLA BUSCHIAZZO It’s April 27, we are in one of the spacious conference rooms on the salesforce.com premises in…
March workshop attendees learn about the techniques, standards, risks, drive and passion required to excel at conference interpreting. BY STELLA HECHT It was late winter—March 31st—the date of the Introduction to Conference Interpreting workshop. Driving to San Francisco in rain…