'To know another's language and not his culture is a very good way to make a fluent fool of one's self.' ~ Winston Brembeck
I've watched hundreds of Latin ...
The soft skills that were enough five years ago aren't enough anymore. And I don't mean languages, though fluency matters. I mean the ability to understand how ...
I built the Slot System™ first. The harder question was what shape the other side would take.
I kept coming back to something small: the difference between my ...
Ted Lasso is back, and I won't pretend I’m not delighted.
I remember watching the previous seasons and recognising my own work as a diplomatic interpreter in T...
Confidentiality is at the centre of the interpreting profession and drives interpreters to guard the content of conferences, meetings, depositions, and medical ...
I moved to London in 2015 and did what any newly arrived Argentine in a new city would do: signed up for everything.
One of those things was my local book clu...
People occasionally ask why the Spanish on this site sounds distinctly Argentine rather than what they call "neutral." The short answer is that there is no su...
Over the years, I have noticed there is a very curious phenomenon that happens in every meeting or event where good interpreting is provided. I call it The Ba...
Some systems arrive as ideas. This one arrived as a pattern: noticed once, then again, then so consistently that ignoring it stopped being an opti
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Slots v. Loops gives both sides of the visit the cultural logic they're missing.
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