by Lauren Black – May 5, 2020 We need to understand the role of translators and interpreters too during the times of COVID-19 pandemic. They have been working religiously like front line professionals to fight against COVID-19. They are preserving ‘communication’ in these difficult times and giving the important translation services and interpretation services to the …
Posted: January 1, 2020Updated: 6:59 PM by Dan Plante SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – She’s one of those people with a unique talent. Highly trained, highly specialized and as of today highly endangered in California. “I do medical translations, vital life saving translations for about 50-clients all over the world. As of today, those clients told me they don’t …
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By Philippa Goymer Unqualified police interpreters have cost the public thousands of pounds by causing court delays and in one instance the collapse of a case, the BBC has learned. Three North East forces have spent more than £1.1m with Gateshead-based ITL in the past three years. Northumbria Police said “action was taken as soon …
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By Wendy Solomon, December 3, 2018 The large influx of Spanish speakers in the Greater Lehigh Valley over the last decade has increased the need for more interpreters and translators in a wide array of businesses, from law firms to doctors’ offices. The burgeoning Hispanic or Latino population has grown more than 30 percent in the region. …
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Sitting on a muddy floor beneath a tarpaulin roof, Nabila, a 19-year-old Bangladeshi, fiddles with her shoelaces as she listens to Tosmida, a Rohingya woman in her mid-30s. Both are crying. Nabila, a student-turned-interpreter, says awkwardly: “She had it from all of them in her secret place.” The struggle to tell the story of Tosmida’s gang-rape …
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