ATA鈥檚 Virtual Conference Is Back
Did you miss out on ATA鈥檚 59th Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana? Or maybe you attended but weren鈥檛 able to make it to…
Read MoreATA at Lenguas 2019 in Mexico City
In January, just as the U.S. was being hit by extremely low temperatures, I had the pleasure of heading to sunny Mexico City to…
Read MoreYes, Conference Interpreting Is a Thing
鈥淲hat are you studying?鈥 During graduate school, when I was living in Toronto and constantly traveling back and forth between the U.S. and Canada,…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence and Translation Technology
I recently asked all the translation technology vendors that came to mind this question: What are the areas in which you see artificial intelligence…
Read MoreTake Charge of Your Rates
There鈥檚 been a lot written recently about raising rates. I鈥檝e even seen it said that it鈥檚 impossible to increase them for existing clients. So,…
Read MoreMachine Interpreting and Misleading Marketing
Nowadays, it seems that most tech companies have produced a product that promises machine interpreting. These are then promoted and sold to a public…
Read MoreAm I Ready for the Exam?
Why does ATA鈥檚 certification exam have such a low pass rate? Readers of The ATA Chronicle tend to be a savvy bunch when it…
Read MoreNew Certified Members
Congratulations! The following members have successfully passed ATA鈥檚 certification exam: English into Chinese听 Yunteng Zhang Davis, CA English into Russian Anna Livermore New York,…
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Passive Voices Peace: Reconsidering the Ban on the Passive Voice in Your Writing
The guardians of the active voice might do well to revisit their disapproval of the passive voice as weak, evasive, or convoluted.
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The "Shall" Conundrum: When Use Becomes Abuse
As drafters and translators, how do we know when we鈥檙e abusing 鈥渟hall鈥? There are at least three very clear and simple cases of abuse that the author sees in dual language or translated contracts almost every day.
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How to Leverage Testimonials When Marketing Your Business
Providing client testimonials is an effective way to market our businesses, but you have to be smart about how you request and use testimonials so that one client鈥檚 words can influence the decision-making of another.
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Educational Interpreting 101: It's a Lot Harder than It Looks
As school districts across the nation struggle to fulfill language access requirements and the needs of their diverse multilingual families, our profession needs to step up, make space, and provide concrete resources for educational interpreters.
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