Translators and interpreters respond to the Covid-19 pandemic

What happens if critical messages aren’t communicated to Americans considered Limited English Proficient (LEP) citizens? To put it bluntly: how are we going to stop the spread if a group of 25 million Americans goes uninformed?

Celebrating Translators and Interpreters: International Translation Day 2019

International Translation Day has been celebrated on September 30 for decades, and coincides with the feast day of St. Jerome, the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists. He died on that day in 420 CE.

The Sorry State of Legal Interpretation in Ireland

Several people, around the world, contacted me and pointed out the recent articles in the Irish Times concerning the sorry state of legal interpretation...

Misinterpretation Abounds in Irish Court Rooms

Inspired by Adam Wooten’s blog posting Why is the Media Obsessed with the Cost of Public Translation?, I dug deeper and found a report...

Is there an interpreter in the house?

Translation and interpreting have been hitting the news lately, and not always in a good way. In particular, finding interpreters for defendants, crime victims and...

Interpretation anywhere

One of cutest and presumably sincere soft-kill press releases that has come my way is an announcement for a brand new telephone interpreting service...