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Business Practices
- Business Practices page on the ATA website
- The Savvy Newcomer: ATA’s Blog for Newbies to Translation and Interpreting
- Worksheet for interpreting services based on ASTM Standard Practices for Language Interpretation
- How to be an interpreter and not go broke
- Calculator Sheet (.xlsx file)
- Education-related tax deductions available for freelancers (freelanceunion.org)
Conference interpreting resources
- International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) Professional resources
- Interpretation – European Commission
- What is conference interpreting? (European Commission)
- interpreting.info
- Interpreters (United Nations Language Careers)
- InterpretBank – Software for interpreters
- Boothmate – Companion app for the booth
- Online Resource for Conference Interpreter Training (European Commission)
- AIIC Guidelines for Distance Interpreting
- Golden Ears, Golden Tongues: How interpreters should take care of the tools of their trade (AIIC)
Court interpreting resources
- Federal Court Interpreters (US Courts)
- Federal Court Interpreter Certification Program Examination (US Courts)
- State Interpreter Certification (National Center for State Courts)
- Resources for Professional Development of Court Interpreters (New Jersey Courts)
- Court Interpreters Program (California Courts)
- The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
- Useful resources and links (NAJIT)
- Team Interpreting in the Courtroom – NAJIT Position Paper (March 2007)
- Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English in Australia, England and Wales, and the USA
- Interpreting Resources – Compensation schedule; Skill-building Workshops; Training and Practice Tools; Reference Materials and Dictionaries (The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania)
- The Interpreter’s Gym – Sound tracks for court interpreters to practice simultaneous and English consecutive, by court interpreter Stephen Sanford.
- Legal Spanish dictionary by the Real Academia Española – free online
- New Code of Conduct for Washington State Judiciary Interpreters (ID Blog Post)
- Interpreting depositions: a fact sheet (AIIC)
- Language Access Index (National Center for Access to Justice)
- General Guidelines and Requirements for Transcription Translation in a Legal Setting for Users and Practitioners – NAJIT Position Paper (2019)
Medical/healthcare interpreting resources
- ATA Medical Division – Resources
- The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (the National CLAS Standards)
- Office of Minority Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) – Resources
- Medical Interpreting Certification in the United States: a comparison
- CCHI Certification Resources
- ARTICLE Serving the Diverse Population of the United States with CLAS is the Best Way to Achieve Health Equity
- LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC Swahili English Medical Glossary
Consecutive Interpreting
- Hana Lourenzo, “Note Taking for Consecutive Interpreting,” The ATA Chronicle (October 2008).
- Consecutive Interpreting. What is consecutive interpreting? What does it entail? – Knowledge Centre on Interpretation, European Commission
Remote interpreting
- FIT discussion paper on remote interpreting (published: June 2019)
Training
- European Commission – Training modules for interpreting students
- European Commission – Interpretation training toolbox
School resources
The Orange County Department of Education in California provides a variety of multilingual and multicultural services that focus on providing support, coaching, and language assistance for interpretation and translation needs as it relates to cultural awareness and the latest state-adopted terminologies and glossaries in several languages. As paradigms shift within education, there is a need to integrate new terminology and make it comprehensible to our parents and the community at large by utilizing a consistent vernacular across various languages. Below please find some useful resources for your use.
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- English-Farsi list of educational terms
- English-Japanese list of educational terms
- English-Korean list of educational terms
- English-Mandarin list of educational terms
- English-Spanish list of educational terms
- English-Vietnamese list of educational terms
School resources 2
The Oregon Department of Education has provided these glossaries for reference:
- English-Russian Early Learning Glossary
- English-Spanish Early Learning Glossary
- English-Vietnamese Early Learning Glossary
- English-Chinese Early Learning Glossary
Interpreters associations
AIIC, FIT, IMIA, NCIHC, NAJIT, CCIA, ACIA… A list of all the relevant interpreters and translators associations, both national and international.
Image by Gellinger via pixabay.com. Published: November 2015. Last updated: January 2020.