“No me falte usted al respeto, no soy cualquier cosa, soy el acusado. Yo ahí afuera tengo otro detalle, no así no se porta con uno la gente.” – Cantinflas, “El juicio,” available here No small ripple In 1992, the Real Academia Española accepted the...
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I was born Puerto Rican. I was actually born in New York, but that doesn’t make me a New Yorker any more than being born in Hawaii or Japan makes my cousins Hawaiian or Japanese just because their military parents happened to be stationed there...
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There is so much truth in the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover." We see it often in our work, and Leslie Tabarez has had some saucy and some funny experiences because of her looks. Here is one she shared with us in 2016. Enjoy.
Gio talks about the rewards, frustrations of living in a multilingual community, and how to overcome some of the challenges of living away from home.
A common characteristic of translators and interpreters is a never ending thirst for learning. Gio tells us how she handles it. You might like her solution.
"Some future court interpreters and future immigration attorneys got into a mock trial." No, it is not a joke. It's a school project!
Let me be blunt: I will not call this the “holiday season” because in Puerto Rico this is Navidad. Although the word does come from the Latin nativitas (nativity) and, yes, it all started with the birth of Jesus, the truth is that in Puerto...
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The NAJIT conference in Atlanta was intellectually stimulating and for some of us—or maybe all—it was also very good for the soul. We laughed, we sang, we danced, we ran into old friends and made new ones. In short, a lot of those present thought...
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My mother died a few weeks before Thanksgiving. She was a remarkable woman who gave each of her children a great love of learning and an appreciation for art, music, language and books, books, books! There was so much I loved and admired about her,...
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I have just finished reading Found in Translation, the new book which has just come out by Nataly and Jost, and is already lined up for a third printing! I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in the T&I sector. Having worked in the...
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