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Send me a Voicemail or Text! My guest Dr Jonathan Downie from Scotland tells his journey in the profession of interpreting. He is an author and podcast host. Being a researcher and a practicing interpreter gives him a unique perspective on our work. Spoken language interpreting vs Signed language interpreting Interpreting is interpreting. We use different modes of language, but essentially the pro...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Holidays! Past! Future! What might have been. What could have been. What I did and didn't. What can be. NO REGRETS! This episode comes out at a time when most of us think about the past year and look to the new year with anticipation of what can be... different. Let's look at the good things that happened and be thankful for those. It shows that the new year...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! InterpreTips: Advice from my experience, research I've read, workshops I've attended. This InterpreTip deals with that panic attack when our mouths and our brains disconnect. We are trying to interpret into the spoken language, but something happened and we forgot something or we created a sentence that has no ending. How do we fix this? How do we prevent thi...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Cheesy American Grits, a food for all who dare! Today we learn some details of Brett's life experience inside and outside of interpreting. What are "grits"? She'll tell you. How can we be better interpreter colleagues? She'll tell you. It was a fun conversation with Brett. We should all have conversations with each other more often. Mentioned i...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Power, seen and unseen, we must use it wisely. Today, Brett speaks to the fact that much of what we do as interpreters transfers to all situations, even to different countries. Our interpreting process takes into account cultures, norms and of course language use. This applies even across borders. We also learn of horizontal violence, online and verbal attacks within o...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! English is English, right? Which English? Since language and culture are so intertwined, English can bring different meanings from different countries. I speak with interpreter Brett Best who moved from the US to the UK. Her experiences give us insight into our profession by comparing the two journeys she took to be a working interpreter in each of these English-speaki...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! " Mr. DeMille! I'm ready for my closeup!" Attention seeker, attention getter, are we? Do we seek attention? In this episode I discuss the finer points of why some interpreters say yes to doing interviews for TV or radio to talk about the Deaf community. Why do some feel it is OK to speak for others? When is it acceptable to answer questions about the cli...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Who am I? Who do you think you are? Who indeed. Clients call us by many different names and say illogical statements and questions. Why do people still misunderstand our profession? I'm sure it has to do with awareness and amount of experience they have using an interpreter. However, I'll let the researchers found that answer. Today, let's just have some...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Drama! Drama! Drama! Be calm and interpret. We are a young profession...still. Society knows about us, but individuals tend to misunderstand what we do and who we are. This societal perspective can make us become defensive. We have a list of reasons, arguments and explanations ready to counter any barriers that we encounter in our work. This attitude can affect our eth...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! A special story to say "until next time" to Zane Hema in the last episode of our conversation. In this episode, Zane expresses his support that a sense of humor is important to survive as an interpreter. And his exciting story of interpreting for royalty is an example for us all... not to mention just incredibly COOL! Zane has regaled us with many lovely stor...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! ZANE keeps on going with more advice and thoughts to smile to. Today we talk: what's in a good team, bad team. consider simple ways for further education. being good at interpreting in artistic settings ...with a little humor. Next week.... a surprise story from a "noble" heart. Enjoy the podcast?   Please support it ! Click the links below to be a part...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! The adventure continues with Zane Hema! We chat about Zane's early interpreting experience and how he took a step into the unknown. He's glad he did since it helped him develop as an interpreter in new ways. We discuss how our relationships with our clients and the interpreter community help us grow in ways we cannot do alone. And we have a couple of laughs a...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Do you live in a land down under? Today we start our chat with Zane Hema living in Australia but known for his long support for European interpreters. Let's find out the adventurous beginnings of this wonderful colleague, learn a bit about the profession down under, and enjoy the lively banter of two friends in this episode. Are you a SUPER FAN?  SUPER support it...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Be warned this episode contains silliness , crazy talk, inner thoughts, and perhaps some humor. Another look at the one-sided conversation between an interpreter and those who just don't get it...yet. This is another episode focusing on the funny side of sign language interpreting. We all need time to vent, laugh at ourselves, and see the comical within the contex...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Interpretive Humming?? "Waltz" this about? Hanna and I chat about teams, work - life balance, and more. Not all of us are privileged to have a team when interpreting. Some countries either don't use teams or don't have enough interpreters to make teams. How do we "have a life" and still have enough work to pay for that life? Hanna gives us...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Aaannnd, we're back with Hanna Boesch in Austria! Quiz time! When was the Austrian Association of Interpreters established? Meeting interpreters in other countries is good or bad? More experience working as an interpreter just makes us old or what? What is the "In Between"? You'll find the answers to these and more in this episode! Do you truly like...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! PIRATES in Austria?! Pink is the OLD color for interpreters! Who knew!? We meet with Hanna Boesch, an experienced sign language interpreter, teacher, and friend.  The profession is alive and vibrant! In this part 1 of our chat, we learn the standards and conditions of the Austrian interpreting profession. What's the situation there? What's the education syste...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! What do YOU really think?? This episode is a fun, sarcastic look at what we sometimes are thinking or what we would like to say. Laugh, if you can, but try not to cry. We get the same old questions, the same old comments. We deal with the same problems every month. We don't have the PowerPoints yet, sorry. Sign language is universal, right?! Please don't stan...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Smiling from Poland! In this last part of my chat with Dr Aleksandra Kalata Zawlocka we find advice from research to improve our interpreting and more. Consecutive interpreting is best for... ?? We should ask our clients about... ? Don't regret what made you... ? Think about how our roles change over time when working together in our field. A BIG thank you to Dr A...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Stepping into Poland again! Dr Aleksandra Kalata Zawlocka gives research insights for the interpreting profession and tips for creating an education program for sign language interpreters. Aleksandra shares her passion for linguistics and how to use existing programs and research to improve our field and its education. You can Support the show ! Click the links below t...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Our journey takes us to Poland! Dr Aleksandra Kalata Zawlocka shares what the interpreting profession looks like today and how it got there. The first Association of Polish Sign Language Interpreters was established in 2009. Aleksandra takes us back to that moment and gives us a glimpse of what steps interpreters and the Deaf community have taken in the ongoing develop...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! How do you prepare for an interpreting gig? If it's a presentation of some sort, do you HAVE to have the "materials"? How do you study the materials? What if you don't understand the presentation? If it is a situation that has no "materials", how do you prepare to create a professional, quality interpretation? I share some of the ways I pr...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Part 4, the last in our interview series with Sharon Neumann Solow , an American pioneer interpreter from the U.S.A. Sharon is a teacher, consultant, researcher, actor and genuine gift to all. This episode touches the heart a bit deeper and a sensitive court case topic is mentioned. Be warned that tears may drop. Also, Virginia Hughes passed away only a few days after...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Part 3 of our journey with Sharon Neumann Solow, an interpreter-extraordinaire from the U.S.A. Sharon shares her changing view of the sign language interpreting profession: travel to teach in Italy Models, questions, and answers learn from the communities we serve teaching gratitude...good attitude and much more. Next week is the FINAL episode of this interview. Be pre...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Part 2 of this wonderful interview with Sharon Neumann Solow, an interpreter from the U.S.A. Sharon shares her view of the sign language interpreting profession: the positive developments we have made the struggles we still have Deaf professionals showing us the way qualities of good teachers, mentors all about attitude, it's important and much more. _______ In lo...