Professor and Director, Technical Japanese ProgramDept. of Engineering Professional Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison2013 ATA Conference, San Antonio TXNovember 9, 2013Why are figures of speech used in languages? To convey particular messages in particular … [Read more...]
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ATA 54th Annual Conference Summary
ATA 54th Annual Conference SummaryBy: Paul Koehler Translators and interpreters in many different language pairs gathered for the ATA 54thAnnual Conference held at the San … [Read more...]
JLD Needs YOU!
Dear JLD Members,Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you had a relaxing holiday.Although not even a month has passed since the ATA Conference in San Antonio, the planning process for next year's conference in Chicago is already beginning. The deadline for Distinguished Speaker proposals … [Read more...]
Welcome to San Antonio and the ATA 54th Annual Conference!
Welcome to San Antonio and the ATA 54th Annual Conference!Japanese Language Division Open HouseGET CONNECTED1. Join the … [Read more...]
ATA EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS OCTOBER 1
ATA 54th Annual ConferenceSan Antonio, TexasNovember 6-9, 2013www.atanet.org/conf/2013ATA members can SAVE 20% when they registerby October 1.Register Now!https://www.atanet.org/conf/2013/register.htm__________________________________________________Rev up the excitement! Check … [Read more...]
Translator-Agency Contract Provisions–Borrowed from Honyaku
"Mark Spahn" <markspahn@verizon.net> Sep 23 03:17AM -0400 The best relationship between a translator and a translationagency is one that minimizes the non-essentials of themoney-for-translation transaction. But some agencies arefond of establishing a legalistic … [Read more...]
Interpreting in Times of Trauma
by Tracy Miller It was a cold night in January a few years ago when I received a phone call very late. "You don't know me, but I'm a friend of the family whose son disappeared on Mt. Fuji. You may have heard about it on the news," replied an … [Read more...]
ATA Conference
ATA 54th Annual ConferenceSan Antonio, TexasNovember 6-9, 2013www.atanet.org/conf/2013ATA members can SAVE 20% when they registerby October 1.Register Now!https://www.atanet.org/conf/2013/register.htm__________________________________________________WHAT IS THE ATA ANNUAL … [Read more...]
Ideas for Blog Posts
Please share your ideas if you have more or different ones.Templates - Case Reports, Government Forms (marriage, koseki), Patents, etc. I would be happy to share mine (marriage registration forms, case report outlines). I just spent a long time scouring the internet for the … [Read more...]