What is Your Professional Association Doing for You?

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

When you as an interpreter, translator, or business owner ask yourself what NAJIT is doing for you as an individual and for your profession, we want to be able to proudly point out exactly what benefits you are receiving from NAJIT. Many of the readers…

NAJIT 40th Annual Conference

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

NAJIT welcomes members and friends to its 40th Annual Conference celebration, to be held May 17-19, 2019 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN. Mark your calendar! NAJIT’s Annual Conference is the premier event for language professionals and stakeholders of language services....

Meet the Editors

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

Editors of Proteus Arianna M. Aguilar has a degree in communications and has been interpreting and translating since 1999. She has been a certified court interpreter in North Carolina since 2005, and master certified Spanish-language court interpreter since 2013. She is president of Latino Outreach...

Links of Interest Winter 2018/19

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

US Must Provide Interpreters for Indigenous Migrants Interpreters Make Really Lousy Spies Not lost in translation: Interpreters integral to Yakima County court system Afghan and Iraqi Interpreters Risk Death, Wait years for legal US visas while migrant caravan demands immediate entrance

A Review of Comparative Law for Spanish-English Speaking Lawyers from a Translator’s Perspective

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

The authors, S.I. Strong, Katia Fach Gómez, and Laura Carballo Piñeiro, perhaps unintentionally, have managed to advance the legal profession by addressing the barely explored field of applied linguistics for lawyers. Other writers have written books on comparative law and the use of legal language,…

For Better or Verse – Get An Interpreter. Now!

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

By Hal Sillers Get An Interpreter. Now! We need an interpreter. Yes. Right away! Spanish, Russian, Somali or maybe K’iche’ Which language is needed? Does it matter? Get someone here to translate the chatter. Call up the guy who interpreted with ease Hearings this morning....

Snapshot vs. Impact: A Perspective on Pursuing a Master’s Degree in Translation vs. Pursuing Solely an ATA Certification

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

I’m using this example as a starting point because I want to add my voice to the ongoing conversation about comparing and contrasting a master’s degree in translation to ATA certification alone. In my mind, it comes down to simple questions: What do I want…

What Does “It” Do?

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

A perfect example lies between French and English and with the direct object—what does “it” do? The English language, as well as most languages, has a grammatical system for referencing an object which is physically in front of you. One might say, “I see the…

Letter from the Editor Winter 2018/19

By: Guest

Issue: 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2

Letter from the Editor: Proteus 2018/19 Winter Volume XXXI Issue No 2 By Arianna M. Aguilar Greetings! The days are getting shorter, the trees have changed colors and the cold has settled in. Here at Proteus, we have been working on bringing you interesting articles this...