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Holiday Savings Coming Soon!!
What's better than holiday deals that save you money?
How about ones that you don't have leave your house for?
Be sure to read the next issue of the IEO Insider so you can take advantage of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions coming your way!
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What's new at IEO?
IEO Courses were recently approved by CCHI for continuing education credit!
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After much deliberating, voting, counting (and recounting), Interpreter Education Online is pleased to announce that we finally have a winner! Of course, we are talking about the winner of our "Rename Our Course" contest.. As soon as the contest was announced, we were flooded with many creative ideas and suggestions on what to rename our Basic 3-Unit course. Narrowing down the submissions to only one choice wasn't easy . However, we decided to go with Dolores Calaf's entry,
Foundational Pillars of Interpreting. Dolores will be receiving a free linguistic resource from our bookstore and all other participants will be sent a special coupon that may be used towards a book or course. We'd like to thank Dolores and everyone else who participated in the contest !
Please make sure to check out the IEO Insider every week for promotions and contests during the upcoming holiday season!
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Lost in Translation, Found in Subtitles
The director Jean-Luc Godard once jested that his film "Notre Musique" "should be subtitled into the American English of a Pakistani cab driver." With the rise of crowd-sourced subtitling platforms such as Amara, which uses volunteers to collaborate on translations of online videos into numerous languages, such hyperspecific captioning no longer sounds like a joke. Amara volunteers now mainly provide subtitles for videos of political speeches and events, but Netflix is in the early stages of testing Amara's services, in an experiment that is using a group of volunteers to add English captions to some classic television episodes. Click here for more information.
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Simultaneous Interpretation Past and Present
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Interpreter kicked out of Flushing polling place for cheating
A case of election fraud occurred today in Flushing when a Korean-American translator helping voters at PS 20 was caught directing them to vote for Democratic candidates, a volunteer poll watcher has confirmed.
The translator, Sang Soo Park, was expelled from the polling place for breaking the law by telling at least three voters to choose the Democratic slate, according to the poll watcher, attorney Daniel Baek.
To continue reading the article, click here.
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How To Raise Word Geeks
When I tried to throw our dictionary out my oldest threw a fit.
This is a very old dictionary. It was owned by my Great Aunt Mildred. The book is huge, with indents along the side for each letter of the alphabet. It's also not in good shape. Threads are hanging out of a nearly wrecked spine and the pages are yellowing. Until recently it sat on our living room trunk, ready to answer all inquiries. As my kids got older and Google got ever closer to our fingertips, I figured we didn't need it. According to my son, I am wrong. He has more than a sentimental attachment. He knows what this book holds - the power to create word geeks.
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More Foreign-Born Americans Voting in Native Languages
Election materials in the U.S. are not only available in English. In 25 states, 248 counties provide ballots and other materials in a variety of languages, and they are required by law to do so.
This can be expensive for counties, and some argue they should not have to pay the bill. Others say it is a constitutional right of citizens who don't speak English.
To continue reading the article, click here.
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