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Send me a Voicemail or Text! Did you hear the latest news??! Yeah, I heard it on MTV. What?!! Our guest regals us with his journey from childhood to professional interpreter.  He reminds us that less access to incidental learning can influence our world view. We'll learn about the project to document Indian Sign Language that he and his father were a huge part of. Amaresh Gopalakrishnan grew...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! " Re-search" means to search again for that which has been searched for. Right? In part 4 Nives Gotovac describes her recent research and how it contributed to the development of the sign language interpreter profession in Croatia. She details some of the results, what surprised her and what she concluded from these results. Learn how you too can benefit from...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! STOP Pretending. Be what you pretend to be, be better. Sign language interpreters have many influences that affect our work. In part three of our conversation with Croatian Sign Language interpreter, Nives Gotovac, we learn more of those obvious and not so obvious influences on our work and lives. We learn from this CODA (child of Deaf adults), about ethics, language,...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! How Dare You! Oh, that's what you mean... OK. Continuing our conversation with Nives Gotovac from Croatia, we learn more about her journey to becoming a sign language interpreter, the joy, the embarrassment, the fun, and the development process. Sprinkled in the mix we learn more details of the Croatian Sign Language interpreter profession's working condition...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! I need makeup! I'm a professional. I need to look the part!!! Today we go to Croatia. A beautiful country where our guest is from. Nives Gotovac tells of her journey as a CODA into the sign language interpreting profession. We learn about community, the conditions, pay, and how sign language interpreters work in Croatia. Join us for more insightful interview parts...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! " Boxing Day" is over. Time to step out and look around! We are a practice profession. We are supposed to be developing our skills, knowledge, and overall work habits continually. However, we sometimes create our own personal and professional barriers to our own growth. In this InterpreTips, I discuss how we build our own walls, boxing in our thoughts, our pe...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! What's his face! uh... Who you gonna call?! The InterpreTips today are all about name signs. What are they? How are they used? What do we do with them in our interpretation? Name signs can be one of those hard concepts to interpret in a nice way. We'll discuss the awkwardness of it and figure out ways to improve. Oddly enough this is one of the many elements...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Happy New Year, 2024!! Let's celebrate the new year and look back on 2023 and a bit into 2022. I look at how we can be better interpreters and colleagues within the communities we serve and our own signed language interpreting community. And a special recognition to those friends and colleagues who have donated and supported me and the podcast from 2022 to 2024. U...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Merry Christmas from my family. This is a short reflection of the year and a moment of gratitude for having such great guests and listeners. Thank you all. And our daughter, Juliana, has composed an impromptu song just for you. Enjoy. Until next time... Support the show On Demand Workshops Now! (Certificates of Attendance, RID CEUs approved) [ The official place to get...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! The FUTURE!!!??? It's impossible to know the future, so it is best to know... you. We finish our conversation with Dr Marty Taylor. Through the insight of "word association" and looking from the past to the future of sign language interpreting, Marty gives us advice and perspective about what it means to be a signed language interpreter. Enjoy. Until nex...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! "Young Whipper-snappers! Get off my lawn!" Yes, each generation complains about the younger generations in some way. However, our guest, Dr Marty Taylor points out how we as sign language interpreters have adapted to the changes over the generations in our field. In this episode, Marty shares her thoughts on how to create an interpreter training program today...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Sign Language Interpreters with Altitude?? No, ATTITUDE! Marty Taylor and I discuss: ethics in the beginning of her career, attitude defined by ASL and English, spoken language interpreters differing perspectives , and how to use her books. So much information to delight your cognitive powers. Next week we start with how Marty would start an interpreting degree program...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Life is full of adventures. Sometimes things just happen, and it's FUN! Our guest is Dr Marty Taylor, an American-Canadian sign language interpreter. She was one of the first generation of academically-trained ASL/English interpreters as the U.S. transitioned from only CODA-generation of interpreters during the nation-wide establishment of interpreter education. W...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! I don't talk much, but when I do... I have an expert opinion! Robyn shares some insight into her research and how it can spring from the valuable conversations we have with colleagues. We learn more about how workshops are just a step in our ongoing education. And she wraps up with some great advice to save us some common headaches when working with the uninformed...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Your Voice is Too Loud! You should let others speak. In this part 3 of my series with Robyn K Dean, we look at how to improve our professional development on our own. That means, reflect on our practice, speak out about what we do and analyze it. But why is that so hard to do when we have so many workshops? Robyn breaks it down for us. We discuss some interesting ideas...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Wait, it's about you, not me! I get it. In this episode, Dr Dean shares how Demand Control Schema applied to the signed language interpreting profession ... got out of control quickly . Yet, over time, it has coalesced into a textbook and a filter with which to look at the dynamics of our work. This has lead her to the new focus of looking at signed language inter...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! The Best DEMANDING Job Ever! Yes, with CONTROLS! (See what I did there?) Dr Robyn K Dean opens the curtain for us to see how her journey in our signed language interpreting profession had familiar steps of development that we all have. She went from frustration, almost boredom to looking deep into what we do, which lead to the study and research that we know today, Dem...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! I taught you better than that! - Joni Bice. We end our conversation with Joni Bice in this episode. She nicely gives us her wise perspective on how to work with students of sign language interpreting, interpreter teams, and much more. We might even share some giggles. This episode is the first to have an outtake at the ending, so stayed tuned after I sign off. You&apos...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Challenges, Changes, Chapters of Life... Joni Bice continues to share her stories of how the sign language interpreting profession changed in the U.S. She tells of the late Lillian Beard and how she influenced Joni with her attitude towards the younger generation of interpreters. We talk about how to find ongoing education to match our skill level, how to handle the to...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Forget about your interpreting! Then you never have to disclose what you know.  My conversation with Joni Bice from Oklahoma, USA, continues. She shares stories and developments and influences of: interpreter working conditions testing organizations ethical development and more Stayed tuned for next week's conversation continuation! Support the show On Demand Work...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! From Texas to Oklahoma, "Plain Interpreting"! We hear stories of how the Sign Language Interpreting profession evolved from the 1970s to today. My guest Joni Bice retells the struggles, the details of working conditions, education, testing, and human interactions from her lived experiences. She recalls experiences from her first introduction to the Deaf commu...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Rights! Right?   - The theme of the 2023 efsli conference. We all have rights as signed language interpreters, but what are they; how do we use them; when can we use them? Those were some of the questions attendees and presenters looked at this year at the conference - LIVE. In this episode we get a taste of this discussion through the eyes of fellow signed language in...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! efsli 2023 CONFERENCE in Thessaloniki, Greece! 15-17 September, 2023 Kamila Skalska a super friend of the podcast attended the conference and connected us to attendees there. I first introduce you to Kamila and then we meet a few of the attendees, efsli board members and presenters from the weekend. This week is only a taste of more to come next week. Enjoy. Until next...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! All Aboard! Haaahaaha! ...the crazy train of interpreting travel. How is traveling like interpreting? How is solo travel different than travelling in a tour group? In this episode, I compare how working solo as an interpreter has similarities to travelling solo. I also compare travelling in a tour group with interpreting in a team. There are positives and negatives to...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! That was a great seminar! What was it about? We've all been there, done that. We attend a great training, workshop or conference and then a few days later we only remember a few things. A few weeks later, and most of it is gone. How do we make better use of our time and trainings? This InterpreTips episode focuses on the Feynman technique which can lead to better...