NAJIT Academy: Recreational Linguistics

Join us for three hours of linguistic lunacy. In this totally interactive workshop we will explore phenomena such as oronyms, pleonasms, anagrams, malapropisms and many more. You will work with your colleagues to create lipograms and  rhopalics and try your hand at solving doublets, rebuses and bridge words. It's not a workshop. It's an adventure.

 

Learning Objectives

At the end of the workshop the participants will have learned at least ten “word games” that will help them improve the language skills and mental flexibility that are necessary for improvement of interpreting and translation skills. They will be able to use these exercises to improve vocabulary and language flexibility in all languages.

 

Presenter Bio

Gregory Miller s a federally certified Spanish court interpreter, having earned his certification through the Administrative Office of the United States Courts in 1989. He has also held California state court interpreter certification since 1980.

He earned a Master of International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management in 1985 and graduated *magna cum laude* from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish in 1977. He also holds a California Adult Education Teaching Credential, awarded in 1982.