Letter from the Editor: Freelance Interpreting
Communicate! - Letter from the Editor - Posted on 24 Jun 2009
Freelance interpreting: Career move or temporary fix for hard times? Gateway to participation in the major debates of our age or a permanent seat on the sidelines? Dream or nightmare? Right for you or not?
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Life Coaching: An interpreter’s experience
Communicate! - Articles - Posted on 22 Jun 2009 - Updated 26 Jun 2009
In addition to my freelance interpreting career of more than twenty years, for some years now I have also been working as a personal coach. I wanted to make changes to my life, and had some coaching. Immediately, I was a believer!
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Genesis of the Japan Association for Interpretation Studies (JAIS)
Communicate! - Articles - Posted on 22 Jun 2009 - Updated 26 Jun 2009
In the late 1980’s some felt that it was imperative for Japanese interpreters to participate in a new area of research – interpretation studies - because the profession by its very nature is global. I also felt it to be our humble duty to make a contribution to bringing Japanese language and culture to the notice of the rest of the world, thus making interpreting studies more comprehensive.
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Pioneros de la AIIC en España: una conversación con a Teresa Oyarzun
Communicate! - Articles - Posted on 22 Jun 2009 - Updated 26 Jun 2009
Conversar con Teresa Oyarzun, quien ha dedicado su vida a la interpretación, trabajando, organizando y ocupando cargos dentro de la AIIC, es volver a una época que, tal vez de un modo algo irreflexivo, es considerada como la "edad de oro de la interpretación".
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Languages at War
Communicate! - Articles - Posted on 22 Jun 2009 - Updated 25 Jun 2009
At least the weather had improved as I crossed the channel at a very early hour in order to do my duty for AIIC. The museum was the venue for a workshop and is a partner, together with the universities of Reading and Southampton, in a project called Languages at War.
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Off Mic with Phil Smith: Skin Deep
Communicate! - Articles - Posted on 22 Jun 2009
Those of you who know me from work will recall my rugged physique, chiselled features, six-pack and piercing blue eyes. More or less. Over the years such debonair style has come effortlessly, but last Christmas I was given serious pause for thought.
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A Further Talk with New Members
Communicate! - Articles - Posted on 22 Jun 2009 - Updated 26 Jun 2009
Why do interpreters join AIIC? What misgivings may they have about it? What do they expect from their professional association? An assembly is a good place to single out new members and ask them these and related questions.
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How to say “extinction” in Chumyl: The Linguists, a film
Communicate! - Articles - Posted on 23 Jun 2009 - Updated 25 Jun 2009
Presented as "a very foreign language film", this work is about David Harrison and Gregory Anderson, two researchers who travel the world to document vanishing languages.
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