Business Etiquette: Not Shaking Hands

A few months ago, we had the pleasure of attending a fancy networking event in Europe. It was lovely, and they had free food, too -- you can't beat a great networking event with free food, but we digress. Many politicians and representatives of the European Union were in attendance as well, and we were delighted to enjoy a nice evening with them. During the course of the evening, we ran into a somewhat uncomfortable...

Lack of Translation = Death

It's a sad day when our profession makes the homepage of CNN.com and the national news in every corner in America because of three deaths that could have been prevented if language access had been provided. The case of Deisy Garcia and her two young daughters is truly tragic, and it's incomprehensible that the New York Police Department cannot answer the question as to why previous complaints that she had filed in her...

Upcoming Conference: Stridonium in Cambridge

We recently heard about the upcoming Stridonium conference from our friend and colleague Riccardo Schiaffino, who featured this relatively new (well, it's been five years) private online community for professional translators and its upcoming conference on his blog, About Translation. Even though we will not be able to attend, we are happy to spread the word about this one-day conference, which sounds quite...

Free: Practical Guide for Conference Interpreters

We are quite passionate about interpreting, and that includes teaching others. Dagy will start teaching consecutive interpreting (Spanish/German) at the University of Vienna in a few weeks, and Judy has been teaching an introductory course on interpreting at the University of California-San Diego Extension online for a few semesters. When we design our online and in-person classes, we constantly search for great resources...