Many of you know the Dollar Shave Club. I order shaving supplies along with shampoo, soaps, and other items! I like their products, they are value-priced, and they arrive conveniently at my home. This year, DSC ran a promotion to put 500 business logos from its loyal customers on Matt Tifft’s @NASCAR_Xfinity race car. My […]
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As technology continues to advance, so have interpreting options. When it comes to medical interpreting, access to an interpreter can mean the difference between life and death. Technology has created to possibility of access to interpreters that were once never available. However, (1) technology isn’t there yet and can be lacking, and (2) the infrastructure
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As we discussed in Part I of this article, the goal of the safety department is to save lives while reducing risk and cost to the company. Often, company politics run contrary to safety culture. Safety culture requires a cooperative spirit from everyone; company leadership must set the example. Company politics typically result in each
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We provided a conference interpreting proposal for a large conference in a large United States city. The proposal also had an expiration date. The reason for the expiration date is because we prefer to work with top-notch conference interpreters who already have preferred team partners with whom they choose to work. Conference interpreters are often
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Certified and professional court interpreters utilize three different modes of interpretation under different circumstances. This article will discuss the different modes and explain why they are needed and when they are used. Consecutive Interpreting: Consecutive interpreting allows the speaker (the source) to complete while the interpreter is attentively listening. Once the interpreter has captured and
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Although there are two national certification procedures for medical and healthcare interpreters, South Carolina does not have a regulation requiring their use. This results in many untrained bilingual people working as interpreters. Because they have not been properly educated or trained as healthcare interpreters, they often do things that professional interpreters would never do. This
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Alfonso Interpreting ofrece el curso de 10 horas de OSHA® en construcción e en Greenville, Carolina del Sur. El curso de diez horas explica lo que es OSHA® y qué exige dicha agencia. Aprenderá cómo identificar, prevenir y evitar los peligros laborales. El curso se presentará en español por su instructor, Jeff Alfonso, Presidente de
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Anyone who has worked in safety and takes it seriously knows this tragic story. A company hires a new safety guy. He is told that one of the core guiding principles for the company is safety. Leaders are eager to have a professional enter and organize a really great program to bring down the percentage
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For conference interpreters, not knowing who the other teammate will be can be a real source of distress. Most great conference interpreters I know will have a preferred partner for conference interpreting. In many cases, they prefer to turn down the job if they can’t work with their preferred partner. Some have three categories. Tier
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(1)The Setting: The setting is important in choosing the interpreter. Some interpreters are perfectly comfortable working at a doctor’s office and completely uncomfortable with accompanying a home health nurse in a private home. Ethically, professional interpreters should be honest in revealing if they don’t qualify for a specific assignment. For example, a highly qualified healthcare
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Archway also bridges the gap in communication by offering a wide variety of interpreting and translation services.
Archway also bridges the gap in communication by offering a wide variety of interpreting and translation services.
