Australian language interpreters and translators are presented with a new code of ethics

Concerns about language interpretation standards and conditions in Australian courts and hospitals prompted a comprehensive two-year review of the previous code.A new code of ethics for language interpreters and translators has been released to the pub…

American Translators Association Online Learning Webinar Series

Translating Financial Statements from Around the Spanish-Speaking World into EnglishMarian S. Greenfield will present this 60 minute webinar in English on February 20, 2013 at 12 Noon US Eastern Time. This webinar will provide strategies for Spanish to…

City of Anaheim, CA, to offer Spanish language interpretation services at council meetings

The Anaheim City Council has unanimously approved the addition of Spanish language interpreting services at all future City Council meetings for a one-year trial period.City staff will provide the Spanish language interpreter services during the public…

Automated simultaneous language translation may soon become a reality

Fully automated and simultaneous language translation is within 5 years of being perfected according to a recent article in The Economist.If you follow this blog, you may know that on occasion we’ve made reference to Star Trek and the ‘univ…

Bravo once again to EU’s young language translators

The names of the 27 winners of the European Commission’s annual EU Young Translators (Juvenes Translatores) contest for secondary school pupils were published on January 28.Last year in March we first reported on the winners of the European Union&rsq…

Ntrepid Corporation Issued Language Translation Technology Patent

The patent covers the technology in Virtus Translator, a natural language processing (NLP) software optimized for structured data in spreadsheets and databases.The U.S. Patent Office has issued Ntrepid Corporation a patent covering its system for trans…

Special Event — An evening with Translators without Borders

Stories from Afar: How Translation and Localization is Making a Difference in the Daily Lives of Those in Need, Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, at the PayPal (Town Hall Building) 2161 N 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95131.Don’t miss thi…

Iraqi sisters who served as language interpreters for U.S. forces in Iraq become American citizens

Lina and Afrah Al Asadi, two Iraqi sisters who risked their lives providing language interpretation services to the U.S. military during the Iraq war have become naturalized American citizens in Great Falls, Montana. Their work was extremely dangerous….

The language interpretation of medicine

As a certified medical interpreter at Logansport Memorial Hospital in Indiana, Mary Carmen Santella-Mercurio helps Spanish-speaking patients understand all aspects of their hospital visits.Mary Carmen Santella-Mercurio is responsible for assisting Span…

Orlando International Airport provides language interpretation assistance to non-English speaking passengers

The customer service ambassador program at Orlando International Airport employs 16 individuals who speak 11 languages other than English and who are ready to assist passengers requiring language interpretation.While they may not be trained language in…