By The News Manual Reporting and writing across different languages. In the previous three modules on language and style from The News Manual we look at the basic structures for news articles, the words used when writing reports, and some important grammatical rules. In this, the final module of four, we look at these issues in the context of reporting and writing across …
By Vanessa Caraveo, CMI-Spanish The Flame that Never Dies: Education The great American philosopher John Dewey once said, “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” This truly depicts the importance education has in our lives and more so, the benefits one reaps in attaining the knowledge needed in today’s fast-paced world and …
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By Theresa M Heath, MS RID: CI, CT, ED: K-12, NIC-Master and SC: L Interpreting is a young profession and for sign language interpreters lacked standardization until 1964. Over those five decades, interpreting has evolved and is now touted as a practice profession much like that of doctor, lawyer, or an accountant. New theories have …
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By Rafael M Mas-Nieves CMI-Spanish As a bilingual individual (English/Spanish), helping LEP’s communicate with others, have be a very satisfactory and fulfilling passion. Whether it was done for a stranger at a retail store, a family member calling the utility company, or a friend trying to buy a ticket for a concert, trying to help …
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By Mutaz Al Mudaris While Collecting my thoughts on this topic I was thinking of a similar title like: “1000 reasons why medical interpreter education is key to professionalism”. Simply because the benefits are countless. I can write volumes about this, yet because its such a rich topic I had difficulty in where to start …
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By Dr. Lizbeth N. Mendoza Professionalization is important for Medical Interpreters to achieve recognition, credibility and respect from the community they serve, other healthcare professionals, and in general from society, which will derive in better work conditions, growth opportunities, and economic return. But without any doubt the most important reason is the safety of the …
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By Kelly Martinkus Healthcare is a field in which training and education, including continuing education, is imperative in order to provide the highest quality of care for patients. In today’s world, many allied health professions have used education and training as a means of professionalization, and medical interpreting is no exception. Thanks to formal education, …
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By Kelly Garvin Rodriguez Interpreting is not new. Ad hoc interpreters have been around since before the polyglot Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark communicate with the Native Americans during their epic journey. Professional interpreting, however, is a relatively young field, but has grown steadily since its inception. Two factors drive this growth: patient need and …
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By Helena Paneyko The title of this essay entails the dissection of each of its parts, so we can better understand the conclusions What is an interpreter? A interpreter is not only a person who is bilingual, but one who can convert the meaning of what it has said in a source language into a …
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by Ellen C. Kaufman, M.S., CSC I once read that knowing two languages doesn’t make you an interpreter just as having two hands doesn’t make you a concert pianist. I like this saying because it helps people unfamiliar with what interpreting actually entails understand that there may just be more to it than knowing two …
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