Slavic Languages Division (American Translators Association)
The last episode of the SLD Podcast’s “Business Matters” season welcomes the new SLD Administrator Eugenia Tietz-Sokolskaya and Assistant Administrator Steven McGrath. Outgoing co-hosts Veronika and Ekaterina chat with them about the future of the division and the podcast, and look ahead to ATA60.
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Check out the latest episode of the SLD podcast, featuring Dagmar and Judy Jenner! Ekaterina and Veronika talk to them about the changing professional landscape in translation and interpreting, thinking like a customer, overcoming impostor syndrome, and making marketing your services easier.
Dagmar Jenner is an experienced German, Spanish, French, and English translator. She is accredited as a conference interpreter by the European Union. She has an advanced degree in French from the University of Salzburg and a master’s degree in conference interpreting from the University of Vienna. She is an expert on the German orthography reform. She runs the European side of Twin Translations, while her twin sister Judy Jenner is in charge of business in the U.S. She is the President of the Austrian Interpreters’ and Translators’ Association UNIVERSITAS Austria. She teaches interpreting at the University of Vienna. She is also the co-author of The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business-School Approach to Freelance Translation.
Judy Jenner, MBA is a Spanish and German translator and copywriter, federally certified Spanish court interpreter, conference interpreter, and award-winning small business owner based in Las Vegas, NV. She is a voting member of the American Translators Association (ATA) and the past president of the Nevada Interpreters and Translators Association (NITA). She now chairs NITA’s professional development committee. Judy is a master-level court-certified Spanish interpreter and a court-registered German interpreter in Nevada and serves on the advisory board of the Spanish/English translation certificate at the University of California-San Diego Extension, where she also teaches in the online translation program. Judy is also a certified California court interpreter (Spanish). In addition, Judy serves as one of the spokespersons of the American Translators Association.
Together, Dagmar and Judy run their boutique translation and interpreting business “Twin Translations”: www.twintranslations.com/
The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business-School Approach to Freelance Translation: www.amazon.com/The-Entrepreneuri…1392425098&sr=8-1
Judy and Dagmar Jenner’s blog “Translation Times”: translationtimes.blogspot.com/
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In this latest episode of the SLD Podcast, Veronika and Ekaterina talk to the members of Black Squirrel Translator Collective (BSTC)! In 2016, Victoria Chavez-Kruse, Mary McKee, Jamie Hartz, and Elizabeth Nelsen established Black Squirrel Translator Collective, a working group that provides many tangible and intangible benefits. Tune in to learn how they did it, what working together means to them, and how you can partner up with your colleagues to take your business to the next level!
Just one day left to register for the SLD’s webinar on English>Russian editing on July 31! The more people sign up, the more reason there will be for ATA to continue with language-specific “division webinars.” Don’t miss out!
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.
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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.
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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!