Slavic Languages Division (American Translators Association)
The 2019 season continues on the SLD Podcast with Alaina Brandt, a business owner, Spanish-to-English translator, and expert on project management and processes. Ekaterina and Veronika chat with Alaina about best practices in project management, sources of communication failure, and the state of localization training in the US.
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The SLD Podcast is kicking off its new, 2019 season, centered around the topic “Business Matters.” In this first episode, Veronika and Ekaterina interview Sara Maria Hasbun, a linguist, entrepreneur, and Managing Director of Meridian Linguistics. You can listen directly on Soundcloud or through Apple Podcasts and Google Play.
Make sure to subscribe so that you never miss an episode! You can also find the entire archive with links on the SLD Podcast page.
ATA59 is almost here! Time to wrap up the SLD Podcast’s conference preview series with the third installment, featuring speakers from Saturday. This lineup includes Mike Collins, Silvia D’Amico and Catherine Christaki, Michele Hansen and Stephen Volante, our own Ekaterina Howard, Mercedes Guhl, and Ewandro Magalhaes, covering topics in translation and interpreting, as well as business skills like writing website copy and managing work-life balance. More information on the sessions and speakers is available in the show notes.
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If you enjoyed the first episode full of ATA59 previews, don’t miss the second episode, featuring speakers from Friday sessions. This Friday episode brings you over two hours of interviews with twelve speakers, both SLD members and non-members: Elizabeth Adams, Larry Bogoslaw, Veronika Demichelis and Natalia Noland, Winnie Heh, Corinne McKay and John Milan, Elena Morrow, Lydia Razran Stone, Ana Lis Salotti, Madalena Zampaulo, and Jost Zetzsche.
More information on the speakers and their talks is available in the show notes. As always, you can find all of the SLD Podcast episodes on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
As we gear up for the ATA conference in NOLA (just a week and a half left!), now is a great chance to take a listen to the conference preview series from the SLD Podcast. This set of three episodes features mini-interviews with various speakers, both SLD members and beyond.
The first podcast in the series, which you can go to directly on SoundCloud, features speakers from the training sessions on Wednesday (Athena Matilsky, Jay Marciano, and Sameh Ragab) and one from a Thursday session (Manuela Sampaio). The interviews cover topics from machine translation and technology to project management and interpreting skills. Additional information on the speakers and their sessions can be found in the show notes.
You can access all of the SLD Podcast episodes through SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, and Google Play. Make sure to subscribe to avoid missing an episode!
Are you not yet excited enough for this year’s Annual Conference? Are you wondering what you can expect if it’s your first time? Are you looking forward to perennial events like the SLD Dinner or Newcomers’ Lunch and wondering about the details? Then you’re in luck: the SLD’s ATA59 Pre-Conference Bulletin is now available to answer all your questions!
You can find the bulletin on the SlavFile page or directly here. This year’s edition includes information on off-site events such as the SLD Dinner and Newcomers’ Lunch, links to past conference reviews, meeting minutes and other SLD business, and – new this year – a rundown of SLD Podcast interviews with conference session presenters. You can find the episodes themselves on SoundCloud, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play.
Looking forward to seeing you all at ATA59!
In case you missed it, check out the newest episode from the SLD Podcast, in which Alyssa Yorgan-Nosova talks about her path in the translation industry, how she ended up in localization, and her experience in the localization certificate program at University of Washington-Seattle.
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In this episode of the SLD Podcast, Veronika and Ekaterina interview Evgeniy Bartov, successful translator, agency owner, and translation school founder. Evgeniy discusses the state of the translation market, issues with translation quality, and the nuances of translator training.
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In this latest episode of the SLD podcast, Elana Pick and Yuliya Tsaplina talk about the importance of professional interpreter training and the future of the profession. Both guests teach at the Master of Conference Interpreting program (MCI) at Glendon College, York University in Toronto, Canada.
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Catch the latest episode of the SLD podcast, in which Julia Thornton and Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya talk about their experiences taking the ATA certification exam and the role certification has played in their careers.
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