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Send me a Voicemail or Text! aRRGHH! My contact fell out! Ever feel like you cannot really see what's happening? Sometimes there's so much going on that we aren't sure what to do next. We're not sure what it all means. Today I share four concepts that I remind myself of when situations get a bit complicated. It also helps me to remember these four perspectives when I become &qu...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Respect is a condition for... (Listen to the end to find out.) In this last part of our chat about interpreting in Serbia, we talk about: starting the profession. old and new ways of looking at what interpreting is. experts and real experts. and some authentic perspectives from Vera. I want to thank Vera for a great conversation over these three episodes. Great insight...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! How do you get paid?? The judge said what??!! Let's take a few moments to reflect on our journey as an interpreter. Recall what it was like to start, to go to your first gig. Then compare that to Vera's stories. Vera tells us more details of the development of sign language interpreting in Serbia. The beginning is not that long ago. She tells us of the many r...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! A sound Cat-astrophe?! [Yes, we hear some scratches and thumps from Vera's sick cat, but interpreters are flexible.] Today I visit with Vera Jovanovic from Belgrade, Serbia. She shares about interpreter education, working conditions, the association, and how it all fits together with the large Deaf community and it's organizations too. Join the discussion: Gi...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! "You can't do that!" "Can you believe she did that??!!" "I hate it when..." We are all guilty of thinking or saying something like that above. In today's InterpreTips episode I give a clear look at why we should respect each of our colleagues who are in this journey with us. It is true we must evaluate, analyze, and improve our w...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! Don't talk about interpreting?! And who is Bob?! Dr Jonathan Downie and I finish our conversation. He leaves us with some ideas to think about as we continue our journey in interpreting. How do we view interpreting, what is it? Train interpreters for real life. Learn the skill of reading the room. Thanks to Jonathan for his time and discussion. It is good to learn...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! What?! I'm not the important one?!! I continue the conversation with Dr Jonathan Downie from Scotland as he gives us more thoughts about the field of spoken and signed language interpreting. We laugh... at our own jokes. We try to be profound when our words won't come out. We give our opinions of what interpreters should think about. We even look at possible...

Send me a Voicemail or Text! What?! The theory doesn't match reality?!! I continue the conversation with Dr Jonathan Downie from Scotland as he gives us his incite into the field of spoken language interpreting. Looking through his world view we see that models, theories and standards don't always match the reality of our work. Click the links below to be a part of the discussion: Give m...

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...