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Opening the Veuve
I had this nice bottle of champagne, this bottle of Veuve Clicquot I’d been meaning to open, but I could never quite find the occasion to do it. It started over a year ago, when I began the process of...
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Remote Interpreters Need Love Too
Managing the switch from on-site to remote interpreter services: Lessons learned from the hospital. What do you think about telephonic interpreter services? Video remote interpreter services? Yeah, I...
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La Despedida (The Farewell)
At my first job as a staff interpreter, my colleagues would scold me because I would never saludar–say hello–at the beginning of the workday (I will just never be a morning person). They’d also razz...
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New Year’s Resolutions for Healthcare Interpreters
Just starting out? In a rut? Wondering how to up your game as a healthcare interpreter in 2016? Here are some ideas to get you started! Learn about certifying bodies for healthcare interpreters: In...
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Back to the Booth
A trainer recently said about interpreting practice: You practice. And then you do it again. And again, and again, and again. And when you’re tired of it, you do it some more. When I first arrived...
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Everything I know about interpreting, I learned in the kitchen
Nearly twenty years ago, I moved back to the US from Costa Rica, and I dropped out of school with a handful of credits left to finish my BA. I went straight to work in a restaurant. I started waiting...
View ArticleSwimming, Interpreting, and Reflexions On Experiential Learning
Somewhere near the beginning of this semester, I took up swimming. A few lessons in, my teacher introduced the breast stroke. “Arms, legs, and gliiiide”, she told me. But I couldn’t get my arms and...
View Article“Getting It”: One Interpreter’s Reflections on Jonathan Downie’s Interpreters...
Known for his “troublesome” pushing back against the status quo, Dr Jonathan Downie structures Interpreters vs Machines: Can Interpreters Survive in an AI-Dominated World?— his second book — as a game,...
View ArticleTime to Put on Pants
A couple of months into my graduate work, unable to understand what was happening to me, I pulled up Google and searched: Does grad school make you depressed? Shortly after, I melted down and confessed...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of a 2020 Interpreter
Happy International Translation Day 2021! Please enjoy this post that I wrote for ITD last year, but didn’t publish until now. As usual, there’s no one day that looks “typical”–Even working from home...
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