Ensuring Payment – Before, During and After the Project
Session IC-3 at the 2016 ATA Conference – Thursday, 3:30-4:30pm ATA57 will mark the 6th time I have given this presentation at an ATA…
Read MoreGerman Immersion Strategies for Expatriates and Other Deutsch-Fans
By Marion Rhodes Being aware of linguistic trends is crucial for translators. To avoid language atrophy, those of us who have traded our native…
Read MoreUpcoming Changes to ATA’s Certification Program
ATA’s Certification Committee is pleased to inform all members and interested persons of some important changes in ATA’s Certification Program taking effect in 2017. As…
Read MoreCongratulations!
The following members have successfully passed ATA’s certification exam: English into Spanish Maria J. Castano Miami, FL Federico Fuentes Spring, TX Veronica C. Hermida…
Read MoreEspacenet: The Databases of the European Patent Office
Reviewed by Françoise Herrmann The European Patent Convention (EPC) offers inventors a uniform application procedure that enables them to seek patent protection in up…
Read MoreAn Interview with Lynn Visson, Retired United Nations Interpreter
Every interpreter has surely had excruciating nightmares about a panicky moment at the microphone, and my guest today is no different. (In one instance,…
Read MoreAn Hourly Fee for Translation? (John Milan, May–June issue) Even when giving an estimate for an entire project, I’ve usually found it necessary to…
Read MoreBenefits of a Diverse Crew
From the President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle: @davidcrumsey I managed to squeeze in an afternoon on a friend’s sailboat on a rare, non-working weekend a…
Read MoreMaking the Most of ATA57
From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle: @corrinemckay Whether you’re attending ATA’s Annual Conference for the first or the 40th time, you’ll want to…
Read MoreInside the ABRATES VII International Conference
The Associação Brasileira de Tradutores e Intérpretes (ABRATES) held its 7th Annual Conference in June, and the ATA was there looking to forge ties.…
Read MoreCuriosity as an Approach to Marketing
But what about curiosity as an approach to marketing? We’ve probably all heard marketing people say that we should try to write texts that…
Read MoreNeural Machine Translation
Do we need to start shivering in fear when we hear folks talking about neural machine translation? There has been much in the news…
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