Coming out in June from the respected Benjamins --pre-order now!-- comes a book needed not only for language teaching but for interpreters.

The requests to reduce interpreters' accents for better comprehension are multiplying. And they come not only from service providers--but from interpreters.

This book claims that new empirical approaches to research in the field have important implications for teaching pronunciation. The authors start with a history of the field before moving through the evidence of what works and doesn't. The book focuses heavily on the how, why and when of pronunciation teaching.

The Linguist is a publication of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. This edition of the full-color magazine includes an article on the need for professional language services in healthcare.

Near the end of that piece comes the statement, "Equal access to public healthcare is a fundamental right."

 Coming in May

May 6-9, 2015

Association of Language Companies (ALC)

ALC 2015 Annual Conference

Nashville, TN 

May 1-3, 2015

Colorado Translators Association (CTA)

2015 Annual CTA Conference

Boulder,CO

May 2, 2015

Northern California Translators Association (NCTA)

Wordfast Pro for Beginners Workshop

An online article about the book by Elesha Edmonds in Stuff begins: Yeah ...nah - getting a grip on Kiwis jibber-jabber can be hard slog. But author Noel Kelly isn't one to shy away from doing the hard yards and has taken a tiki tour into the wop wops of slang.

Five years in the making, this Dictionary of Slang in New Zealand by Noel Kelly offers about 32,000 entries. Sounds like a fun book!

So take a look at our training calendar and think about whether you'd like to attend our workshops on Cultural Competence in Health and Human Services, How to Work with an Interpreter, Medical Terminology for Interpreters or our two-day workshop on simultaneous interpreting.

And don't forget our July Monday to Friday session of The Community Interpreter® or its Training of Trainers.

Meantime--if you live in our half of the hemisphere, enjoy the spring!