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Mandarin Language Month
For the month of February, when you purchase any course, test, or Skype lesson in Mandarin, you'll receive 10% off!
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In the spirit of Valentine's Day, IEO asked some of its instructors, who are also seasoned interpreters, what they loved about the interpreting profession:
"Like many of my colleagues in the language industry, I make it my daily business to agonize over words. Summarizing my long, joyful and torturous experience of dealing with these pesky lexical units, I must say it has been a very humbling, alluring, exhilarating, and addictive experience. I am grateful to my profession for keeping me on my toes, for supplying an endless supply of linguistic puzzles as well as a steady dose of adrenalin. I love having the thrill of being a performer and the satisfaction of being a therapist who helps people from different cultures to understand each other by just repeating their own words and not having to ask 'How do you feel about that?'" - Irina J. "What I most love about interpreting is my interpreter colleagues - interpreters are some of the most interesting, cultured, intelligent people I know. I work with some of the greatest court interpreters around and I learn so much from them." - Molly S.
"With medical interpreting it was an opportunity to serve as an advocate for the patient and a conduit between patient and physician. Putting the patient at ease thus facilitating a more precise comprehension and understanding of procedures to be undergone.
With legal interpreting it's not advocating for either side but rather maintaining a detached neutrality while making certain each party (witness and/or defendant) has a clear understanding of the proceedings, and communicating all questions and responses with the same inflection and tone as they are given."
- Richard L.
"The possibilities are truly endless when it comes to interpreting. In a span of a week I have interpreted for a patient in the ER, a tour of Detroit for a group of engineers, for a witness in an assault and battery case and a business meeting for a company expanding its supply chain. What other profession can offer such diversity and opportunities for learning and growing? Where else can a professional be able to make a difference in so many various settings just by adhering to the rules of the profession?"
- Jinny B.
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Profiles in Translation: Speaking the Language of Love
As America gets ready to celebrate Valentine's Day, here's a bit of trivia from elsewhere in the world. In many parts of Latin America, Valentine's Day is not just for people who are in love. It's known as the "Día del Amor y la Amistad" -- the Day of Love and Friendship. If you live in the United States, chances are you have a Latino friend or neighbor. After all, the Hispanic population within the U.S. now accounts for more than 50 million people, or approximately one out of every six Americans, according to the Census Bureau. Click here for more information.
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The importance of professional medical interpreters
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Is cursive writing history?
When soldiers in Napoleon's army uncovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799, it unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Who knows, in the year 2799, there might be an archeologist who goes down in the history books as the explorer who discovered a buried Palmer Method of Handwriting textbook, unlocking the secrets of a 19th and 20th century American hieroglyph known as cursive handwriting.
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Scientists Create Automated 'Time Machine' to Reconstruct Ancient Languages
Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them to reveal clues into human history can require decades of painstaking work. Now, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created an automated "time machine," of sorts, that will greatly accelerate and improve the process of reconstructing hundreds of ancestral languages.
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Latin-loving pope uses ancient language to quit
Pope Benedict announced his historic decision to resign on Monday in an address to cardinals which he delivered in Latin, the ancient tongue whose use he had done much to encourage.
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