By Victoria Stunt and Megan Janetsky 20 April 2020 When Ericka Guadalupe Vásquez Flores began working as a translator for detained migrants and their lawyers in the United States, she could not stop thinking about her younger brother, Bryon. Ms Vásquez spent hours taking long-distance phone calls from her home in the Guatemalan highlands translating …
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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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Hendrik J. Kockaert – 2019-06-14 In today’s highly wired communication world, scholars and practitioners of translation studies cannot turn a blind eye to machine translation. The easily available translation tools deliver fast, free and targeted content. But are they a match for innate human skills? A new International Organization for Standardization standard for machine translation, …
THE WEEKEND TEAM 13 SEP 2019 Myanmar has a long literary history, from the days of transcribing the Buddhist scriptures in Kuthodaw Pagoda (officially the world’s largest book), to once having the highest literacy rates in the developing world. Whether readers are interested in religion, psychology, fantasy, travel or self-help, there’s a book for every type …
By MADELINE FOX It can be hard to find a truly quiet place in the Lake Worth-based Guatemalan-Maya Center. Just inside one door, case workers and other staff answer phones and talk clients through paperwork, immigration processes and other services. A long, narrow room on the ground floor has chairs along one wall that are often …
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Language is much more than just a means of communication. It is what makes us a civilized humans. Therefore, there is always something to seek from the work of a translator. Dipen Pradhan – September 4, 2019 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Throughout history, translators have played an important role in the dissemination of ideas …
Geeta Padmanabha – AUGUST 24, 2019 Some universities in Tamil Nadu are introducing courses on Indian literature in translation; textbooks are also being developed, looking at rich layered pieces chosen from local languages If you said “What!” at the end of Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace, followed the adventures of The Three Musketeers and buried your nose in Tagore’s Geetanjali, …
Source: Industry News · By Marion Marking . On August 21, 2019 On August 12, 2019, the California State Legislature held a committee hearing on a bill that seeks to require employers to meet the ABC Test for their independent contractors to be lawfully classified as such. The bill, “Worker status: employees and independent contractors,” which goes by its number AB5, basically …
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A translator does not transcribe a text, he argues, nor do they rewrite it May 21st 2019 by A.P. FOR A long time, translators had a hard time of it. They were underpaid and under-recognised by the literary establishment, rarely mentioned in reviews of the titles they worked on. But as foreign fiction has gained popularity—according …
